Nurse Practitioner – Pain Service Surgery Program

DEPARTMENT: Surgery Program

REPORTS TO: Program Director, Surgery Program

HOURS: (other shifts as required), Days or as operationally required, Flexibility may be required; 7.5 Hour Shifts

The Nurse Practitioner (NP) acts as an autonomous health professional with advanced education and provides essential health services grounded in professional, ethical and legal standards. With a specialty-based focus, the NP works within an expanded nursing role and utilizing expert skill to formulate clinical decisions and appropriate management of acute pain. The NP integrates in-depth knowledge of advanced nursing practice and theory, health management, health promotion, disease/injury prevention, and other relevant biomedical and psychosocial theories to provide comprehensive health services. The NP will utilize a collaborative approach with the broader interprofessional surgical team. The NP works in collaboration with clients and other health-ca...