NUNAVUT - Agency Nurse Orientation Training Program
Weekly outline
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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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Government of Nunavut - Community Health Nursing Manual
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Required Pre-Reading:
- ISC Paediatric Guidelines - Chapter 19 - Adolescent Health
- ISC Adult Guidelines - Chapter 15 – Mental Health
Agency Nurses will demonstrate how to perform an organized, comprehensive behavioural health assessment. They will adapt assessment techniques to the client's condition, and recognize the deviations and/ or variations from normal findings, as they relate to the current Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) and screening.
They will consult with other healthcare providers regarding assessment in an appropriate and timely manner and perform screening assessments as required, including trauma assessment for patients with acute presentations and addictions.
Agency Nurses will also garner a better understanding to determine the need for appropriate laboratory and diagnostic testing to monitor patients with chronic mental illness on routine pharmacological treatment, as well as to assess and treat drug overdoses or other conditions related to excessive drug or alcohol misuse.
Agency Nurses will learn to utilize evidence-based tools such as the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), as well as the Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Score (COWS) and Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol (CIWA-Ar).
Note: Suicide is covered entirely in Module 12.
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