15 December 2023
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