Job Profile
Palliative care Team - Nurse
Purpose of the Job:
- Coordination of patient care by palliative care team
- Provide critical nursing support and education to palliative care patients and their informal caregivers in their homes /OPC through the palliative homecare team
- Work as part of multi-disciplinary palliative care team in ensuring excellent patient care services and carrying out quality improvement initiatives
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Coordination of homecare patient visits according to priority (homecare nurses)
- Provide nursing care/education to patients at home/in OPC
- Enrollment of new patients, assessment of their nursing needs and prioritizing their care
- Ongoing assessment of nursing needs of old patients and changing priority as required
- Discharge of patients according to criteria laid out
- Assessment of informal caregivers ability and their education in care of their patients
- Liaise with and assist doctor in symptom management
Maintenance of patient record pertaining to nursing issues
- Maintenance of monthly record of patients visits and priority
- Maintenance of medicine stock record
- Assist counselor in bereavement support of families
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and assist doctor and counselor as required
- Attend fortnightly coordination meetings at headquarters
- Participate in continuing education training programs for palliative care staff during coordination meetings
- Participate in outstation trainings as decided by FST Nurse and Palliative care services Director
- Assist in in-house training sessions as decided by FST Nurse
- Perform other duties as requested
- Adhere to the practice of confidentiality regarding patients, families, staff, and the organization.
Additional Duties and Responsibilities
Participate in events held by CanSupport for
- Bereaved families (Remembrance Day)
- Cancer awareness
- Fundraising (Walk for Life).
Job Qualifications:
Essential-
B.Sc. or GNM (General Nurse Midwifery) Course
Desirable-
- 5 years' experience as nurse in hospital or community setting
- Computer Skills