Job/Role Summary

• To provide nursing services to the homeless population within a specific area.
• To create a healthly community by providing services wich include clinical intervention.
• Health promotion and health screening.
• Crisis intervention.

 

Specific qualifications and experience required

• Registered nurse - Adult
• Nurse Practitioner
• 2 years Post Registration experience
• 1 year Community experience

 

Career Milestones

After extensive experience in various primary care settings and completing the nurse practitioner course, this opportunity came up and i was successful in my application.

 

What attracted you to this job?

• Challenging
• New frontier of nursing in my area
• Professional development

 

Enjoyable aspects of the job/role

• Working with this specific client population
• Developing in depth knowledge in subject area
• Day to day challenges and unpredictability

 

Important success factors

• Management support and encouragement
• Learning from other professionals within the area of homelessness
• Ability to work autonomously

 

Advice for those considering the type of job/role?

• Be certain you want the job
• Have a background knowledge
• Be able to adapt to changing situations in your caseload
• Capacity to work independantly

 

Key skills that can be gained within this job/role?

• Ability to work with rapid change within the caseload and capacity to work at pace
• Self reliance on my own judgement in difficult situations
• Greater insight into clients who have an addiction and/or mental illness
• Counselling and motivational skills