Nurse Practitioner

Providence Health Care is seeking to recruit a dedicated NP for a unique role that will work within several areas (geriatric medicine, geriatric psychiatry, and internal medicine) assisting our geriatric patients. This provisional role will be based in units at MSJ and SPH on units with older, frail and vulnerable adults. The areas are 1South and 4 East at MSJ and primarily 9CD at SPH. The role will work with an interdisciplinary team composed of Geriatricians, Geri Psychiatrists and an expert team of allied professionals in an acute care setting. The ideal candidate will have a flexible work schedule and will possess post-graduate experience working with the older adult population.

The patient population for the Geriatric Psychiatry Unit (GPU) at Mount St. Joseph Hospital consists of those who are 65 years of age or older with a history of psychiatric disorders. These may be late onset mood, psychotic and/or severe anxiety disorders or major neurocognitive impairment such as behavioral and psychological symptoms associated with dementia (BPSD). They may also be at serious risk and/or harm to themselves or others in their current environment and require 24/7 care which has been assessed and identified by their community care providers or geriatric services. Our GPU is a locked 16 bed unit with an expected length of stay for our patients of between one and six weeks. During their stay, patients will be assessed and treated by our interdisciplinary team of Psychiatrists, a Nurse Practitioner, Registered Psychiatric Nurses, Registered Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Dieticians, Pharmacists and Social Workers. The goal of treatment is to assess, treat and stabilize patients before discharging them back to the community and to provide care to their families and other members of our patients’ support system.