Medical Matron (Mississauga)

Medical Matron (Mississauga)

03 Oct
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Partners Community Health
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Mississauga

03 Oct

Partners Community Health

Mississauga

Partners Community Health’s Integrated Seniors Hub is dedicated to providing comprehensive and compassionate care for seniors, ensuring they live their lives with dignity, independence, and purpose. Our hub offers a holistic approach to senior care, integrating a variety of community-based services and programs designed to address the physical, emotional, social, and nutritional needs of our residents.

The Nurse

Practitioner (NP) provides direct comprehensive care to Clients of the Integrated Seniors Hub with specialized and complex needs based on enhanced clinical knowledge and skills.

Position Type: Part time Schedule: 3 days per week Formulates differential diagnoses through the integration of resident information, evidence-informed practice, and determinants of health in the assessment, diagnosis, and therapeutic management of residents within a team of physicians, nurses, PSWs and several other interdisciplinary team members. Performs a complete or focused physical examination and identifies and interprets normal and abnormal findings as appropriate to resident's presentation. Anticipates and diagnoses emergent, urgent, and life-threatening situations.

Diagnoses diseases, disorders, injuries, and conditions, and identifies health needs, while considering the resident's response to the health/illness experience Communicates with clients/families/substitute decision makers (SDMs) about health assessment findings and/or diagnosis, including outcomes and prognosis. Prescribes pharmacotherapy based on the client’s health history, disease, disorder, condition and stage of life, and individual circumstances.



Applies knowledge of pharmacotherapy and evidence-informed practice in prescribing, monitoring and dispensing drugs.

Counsels SDM/families on medication therapy, benefits, potential side effects and possible interactions Monitors, evaluates, and revises the plan of care and therapeutic intervention based on current evidence-informed practice and on resident goals, preferences, health status and outcomes. Incorporates knowledge of the clinical manifestations of acute illness/ injuries, chronic diseases, comorbidities, and emergency health needs, including the effects of multiple etiologies in the assessment, diagnosis, and therapeutic management of residents and in the evaluation of outcomes. Documents clinical data, assessment findings, diagnoses, plans of care, therapeutic interventions, resident responses, and clinical rationale in a timely and accurate manner.

Consults with and/or refers clients to other health-care providers at any point in the care continuum when the resident's condition is not within the nurse practitioner scope of practice or the individual nurse practitioner's competence. Collaborates with members of the health-care team to provide and promote interprofessional client-centred care at the individual, organizational and systems levels.



Coordinates and facilitates client care with other health-care providers, agencies, and community resources.

Focuses on client’s overall quality of life, maximizing independence and comfort and promotes a positive outlook of aging to the individual and community. Engages in evidence-informed practice by critically appraising and applying relevant research, best practice guidelines and theory when providing healthcare services Participates in research and quality improvement initiatives. providing health teaching, leadership during huddles, care conferences and interdisciplinary rounds. Bachelor's in nursing; master's degree in nursing is preferred.

Successful completion of the Ontario Primary HealthCare Nurse Practitioner Certificate Program Current Membership in the Nurse Practitioners Association of Ontario and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) Current Canadian Gerontological Nursing certification or current plans to obtain certification. Minimum of 5 years' experience in gerontological nursing and/or as a primary health care nurse practitioner, preferred.

Experience in geriatrics and/or geriatric psychiatry in the care of persons with 'biological and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) with responsive behaviours (preferred) Experience in the care of residents in long-term care facilities Knowledge of the Standards of the College of Nurses of Ontario, LTC Standards, Pharmacy Standards, and the Regulated Health Professionals Act Knowledge of Infection Control and Risk Management

📌 Medical Matron (Mississauga)
🏢 Partners Community Health
📍 Mississauga

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