- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- On-site
- Temporary · Staff
- 2+ years
Utilizes public health nursing knowledge and expertise to promote and protect the optimal health, well-being and safety for the designated client population through selected and targeted programming with the focus on services to prenatal, infants and toddlers between the age of 0-5 years and their families.
Responsibilities
- Provides a full continuum of services including prevention, health promotion and early intervention services to individuals/groups in a variety of community-based settings
- Establishes and maintains interdisciplinary and community relationships with internal and external partners
- Identifies the client as individual/community/system and determines necessary interventions using a continuum of public health nursing interventions such as screening, assessment, referral, advocacy, surveillance and monitoring, education, consultation and responding to public health emerging issues
Requirements
- Current practicing registration as a Registered Nurse with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM)
- Completion of specialty nursing certificate (i.e. 20 hour breast/chest feeding education)
- BCCDC immunization competency certification