Nurse Practitioner
Alberta Health Services • edmonton, Canada
Role Description
As a Nurse Practitioner (NP), you will provide a wide variety of nursing services to patients, families, communities and populations, while taking necessary steps to ensure their safety and well-being. In your role, you will utilize nursing processes, through critical thinking, problem solving and decision making, as well as teach, counsel and advocate on behalf of patients and families. You will play a leadership role in supporting an integrated and holistic approach to patient care, health promotion and maintenance. You will provide safe, quality patient and family centered care while reflecting the shared vision and values of AHS. Scope of this role will be to support the Emergency Department Waiting Room, Initiation of investigations including order sets, symptom management. Along with supporting EMS offload and the triage nursing team. The NP role in the UAH ED is used to promote flow through the department by identifying patients that would benefit from early investigations...