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Description

This position is responsible for the provision of a comprehensive range of core nursing functions and services within our First Nation community. This includes a broad range of responsibilities including community/public health, primary care and home care, through promotion and maintenance of the health of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations. Successful candidates value the principles of primary health care and focus on promoting health, preventing disease and injury, protecting population health as well as providing curative, urgent and emergent care, rehabilitation, and supportive or palliative care when required.
Roles & Responsibilities
1. Applies and utilizes key nursing knowledge and critical thinking
2. Collects, assesses, analyzes and applies information from various data sources to make evidence-informed decisions for nursing services, program planning, development and priority setting with individuals, families, groups and communities and interprets information for professional, non-professional and community audiences
3. Uses evidence and research to influence health policies, programs and practice
4. Advocates for public policy and services
5. Involve individuals, families, groups, and communities as active partners
6. Builds capacity, improves performance and enhances the quality of the working environment
7. Participates in all partnerships to enhance the health of individuals
8. Uses culturally relevant and appropriate approaches when building relationships and providing nursing services.