NUNAVUT - Agency Nurse Orientation Training Program
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Nunavut Orientation Overview
Welcome to CHCA's orientation to practice in Nunavut.
CHCA Nurses working in Nunavut will have already completed the Contract Nurse Training Program offered upon initial hire to our agency. This comprehensive orientation program prepares nurses for practice in remote nursing stations in Canada's north.
This Agency Nurse Orientation Training Program (ANOTP) provides nurses with additional Nunavut and Inuit-specific information, in order to practice safely and effectively, and provide the highest possible quality of care for the Inuit people.
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Pre-Reading:
- NUNAVUT - Guidelines for completing well child records
- ISC Clinical Practice Guidelines - Paediatric Guidelines
- Chapter 1 – Paediatric Health Assessment
- Chapter 3 – Paediatric Prevention and Health Maintenance
- Chapter 5 – Child Maltreatment
- Chapter 7 – Nutrition
Agency Nurses will be able to complete focused assessments, recognize deviations from normal, analyze findings and develop differential diagnoses that can help identify urgent and emergency problems in the otherwise well neonate, infant and child. they will perform screening assessments for well baby and well child visits, and understand and determine the need for further consultation, screening and diagnostic tests.
Agency Nurses will be able to discuss health assessment findings with clients and will be able to make appropriate prevention recommendations. They will also understand family structures, determine how to conduct a family assessment and assessment and assist families in accessing resources to meet health needs of their child.