Your Opportunity:
Description:
As an Assistant Head Nurse, you will be responsible for staff assignments, patient flow and acting as a role model, clinical resource and advocate for nursing staff. In addition to providing frontline nursing care, as required, you will take a leadership role in the promotion of quality patient care and the implementation of operational priorities. Your in-depth knowledge and skills, advanced judgment and clinical experience, will assist in providing solutions for complex health care issues at all levels with patients, interprofessional teams, administrators and policy makers. You will play a key role in providing safe, quality patient and family centered care while reflecting the shared vision and values of AHS.
Acute Care Alberta: N Primary Care Alberta: N Recovery Alberta: N Classification: Assist Head Nurse Union: United Nurses of Alberta Unit and Program: Acute Care/Emergency Primary Location: Whitecourt Healthcare Centre Location Details: As Per Location Multi-Site: At (UNA only) FTE: 1.00 Posting End Date: 09-MAY-2025 Employee Class: Regular Full Time Date Available: 19-MAY-2025 Hours per Shift: 7.75 Length of Shift in weeks: 12 Shifts per cycle: 57 Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Nights, Weekends, On Call Days Off: As Per Rotation Minimum Salary: $44.71 Maximum Salary: $61.18 Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Required Qualifications:
Completion of an accredited nursing education program. Active or eligible for registration and practice permit with the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA). Current Basic Cardiac Life Support - Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP).
Additional Required Qualifications:
Perioperative training. Obstetrics training. Rural Nurse - ER. Knowledge of scheduling unionized employees.
Preferred Qualifications:
Fetal Health Surveillance. NRP. CTAS. ACLS.
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