RN - Community Health Nurse
Calian
- Alberta
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manages and participates in immunization and travel medicine instructions
- Manages and participates in desensitization clinics
- Performs screening for tuberculosis and/or other illnesses
- Promotes health improvement initiatives by planning, coordinating, and facilitating health promotion clinics
- Assess individual needs for and provides education and counseling related to the prevention of health disorders and the maintenance of quality of life when health is impaired
- Attends clinics that support, and guide CF members affected by similar health conditions, documents and makes recommendations for outside referrals
- Participates in the management of the outcome data on population health and assists in the extrapolation of health trends pertaining to individuals
- Promotes health improvement initiatives by planning, coordinating, and facilitating health promotion clinics
- Licensed with the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA)
- Bachelor’s degree from a recognized nursing program
- 3 full time equivalent years of relevant experience within the last 5 years in nursing practice:
- Applying the principles of immunization and communicable diseases management including immunization schedules, vaccine storage and handling, and infection prevention and control;
- Delivering patient education such as Chronic Disease Self-Management programs; and
- Working in Public or Community Health – Communicable Disease Control Program, Travel Health, Primary Care, or Occupational Health environment.
- Must be able to obtain a Government Security Clearance at the Reliability level
- A security clearance and/or vulnerable sector screening might be required for this position.
- Our recruiter will walk you through the security clearance requirementand process.