Nurse Practitioner - Orthopaedic Surgery

Choosing to work for The Hospital for Sick Children means that you've chosen more than a job, you¿ve chosen a career where you can have a meaningful impact on the lives of children and families every day. Our staff are our greatest strength and SickKids works hard to provide a supportive working environment where Nurse Practitioners can perform their best work possible. Working in collaboration with the interdisciplinary Health Care team, Nurse Practitioners at SickKids have the opportunity to provide expertise in the areas of:

• Clinical Practice
• Education, Mentorship, and Research
• Leadership and Organizational & Systems Management

SickKids is recognized as one of the world's foremost paediatric health-care institutions and is Canada's leading centre dedicated to advancing children's health. Nurse Practitioners play a critical role to our success.

We are currently looking for a Nurse Practitioner to join our Orthopaedic Surgery Team to provide leadership and promote inter-professional excellence and collaboration in child and family-centred care within the five main role components of expert practice, education, consultation, research, and leadership/change agency in a dynamic clinical environment.

This role would focus on leading care of patients across our orthopaedic service (spine, complex hip, fractures), within an established Ortho NP team. This role will work closely with unit nurses, orthopaedic staff surgeons, residents, fellows, other NPs, consulting medical services and allied health personnel to ensure safe, efficient, and family centered perioperative care. The NP will optimize the care delivered by the team through the ability to assess, intervene, and reassess pre operative and post operative patient status and proactively manage preparation for and recovery from surgery. The NP will develop key relationships with patients and families, the complex care service, other NPs, and Holland Bloorview Kids rehabilitation hospital. Using an enhanced recovery after surgery lens, the NP will undertake a continuous quality improvement approach to the prevention and management of perioperative medical conditions. Success will be judged on patient safety, comfort, family experience, length of stay, and strength of liaison with other services.

Here's What You'll Get To Do

• Integrate nursing and medical skills and knowledge within a broad scope of advanced nursing practice
• Provide comprehensive health care to patients and their families who are cared for by the Orthopaedic Surgery service
• As a member of the health care team, serve as the key contact person for patient and families
• Coordinate the interdisciplinary plan of care
• Foster interprofessional collaboration in the coordination of plans of care
• Assume a leadership role in advancing the quality of clinical practice and the provision of care
• Provide mentorship and coaching to support the development of nursing and interprofessional colleagues
• Commit to reducing preventable harm through Caring Safely ¿ for example, role model error prevention behaviours in practice, and provide leadership with strategies to reduce hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) in the Orthopaedic Surgery patient population
• Identify, integrate and evaluate research-based innovations for improving patient care
• Create, utilize and/or disseminate new knowledge using formal and informal channels
• Partner with children/families to navigate their illness trajectory
• Identify, link with, and collaborate with services and resources in the community as required
• Provide relevant health education to children and families that is based on their needs, learning styles and stages of development
• Provide assistance with acquiring specialized equipment for children in the program

Here's What You'll Need

• Completion of a Nurse Practitioner certification
• Registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario, within the RN (Extended Class)
• A minimum of three years of clinical nursing experience in pediatrics, experience with surgical populations, and Orthopaedic Surgery patient population is preferred
• Ability to act as a change agent, and foster collaborative teamwork
• Innovative critical thinking with excellent communication and problem solving skills
• Knowledge of theoretical frameworks and knowledge translation strategies
• A commitment to understanding and aiding in the pursuit of equity, diversity & inclusion

Employment Type: Contract, 12-18 months