Your Role

As a Registered Nurse, you will play a key role in providing holistic, person-centered and culturally appropriate care along a continuum.  

You are organized, can prioritize, are excellent communicator and have the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment. You demonstrate conflict resolution, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.  

You will be responsible for providing assessment, screening, healthy lifestyle support, education, and chronic disease management with a goal of improving health outcomes and facilitating access to services.  

You provide support and services through a trauma informed care framework and culturally sensitive and safe lens for families and individuals across the lifespan; you have experience working with marginalized populations, and a knowledge of the community and mental health resources.  

You will initiate, implement, and monitor health care plans in collaboration with the patient, practitioners and other members of the interdisciplinary team. You work to the full scope of practice as set out by the BCCNN.  

Key Responsibilities

• Provide information to team members as required, including patient specific care instructions. 

• Check results for practitioners during absences, assessing the urgency and escalating according to clinic protocols 

• Create and review patient care needs and treatment goals. Identify, plan, implement, and evaluate changes to the written team-based care plan as required. Book patients for follow up in line with the team-based care approach  

• Provide nursing assessments using tools and techniques based on the patient’s unique needs, including consultation services for patients (e.g. completing and documenting a thorough medication assessment) 

• Prioritize case management and scheduling of walk-in patients 

• Provide limited counseling support for patients in crisis 

• Maintain accurate and comprehensive health records. Document nursing care and nursing interventions according to BC College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) documentation practice standards 

• Use a variety of established health education, promotion, and service interventions, such as the Well Child Program, and Pre/Post-natal Care 

• Optimizing capacities for health by modeling, counseling, and teaching life skills for individual patients and their caregivers/families 
• Use epidemiological methods to investigate and follow-up on reportable communicable diseases in accordance with established policies and procedures 
• Manage the full cycle of immunization of children and adults, including monitoring status 
• Conduct primarily in-person patient care, with some virtual visits, to monitor the care being provided in a safe, efficient, and effective manner, ensuring the achievement of identified service goals 
• Act as patient/community advocate 
• Promote and facilitate patient independence 
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team of health care professionals and health care services and providers to facilitate quality patient care 
• Develop relationships with and coordinate care provision with other programs/services 
• Provide health education and promotion and treatment services for patients, including individuals, families, care teams, groups, and communities. Areas of focus include high cholesterol, diabetes, proper puffer usage, and weight loss 
• Identify the need for and provide chronic disease management for diabetes, COPD, and CHF 
• Identify the need for, lead, and participate in Quality Improvement Cycles 
• Document and report nursing care, in accordance with policies, protocols, procedures, and standards. Protect and secure all patient records and supplementary related documents by monitoring access and maintaining appropriate disposition of the documents/information to protect confidentiality. Provide patient data to specified healthcare professionals. 
• Process and implement the care plans and orders of listed health professionals, in accordance with regulatory requirements, identifying and seeking clarification as necessary. 
• Participate in case conferences, treatment plan reviews, and staff meetings. 
• Contribute to a safe and healthy working environment by observing and promoting universal precautions and infection control procedures; removing obvious hazards; reporting faulty equipment, accidents, injuries and near misses; and participating in quality improvement. 
• Ensure competency and professional practice standards are met, in line with the regulatory controls on practice 
• Provide preventative care (cancer screening, chronic disease management and harm reduction services). 

Qualifications and Skills

• Completion of a recognized Registered Nurse education program 
• Current practicing registration as a Registered Nurse with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) 
• Valid Class 5 Driver’s License 

• Demonstrate clinical competence within the RN scope of practice
• Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, with other team members, and
  with patients and their caregivers/families
• Intervene in crisis or difficult situations.
• Demonstrate conflict resolution, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Utilize sound judgment, good observation and assessment skills, tact, and empathy
• Knowledge of available programs and services including their interrelationships, and
  their function in delivering care in the community; or an equivalent combination of
  education, training, and experience
• Fact-find and seek out information and/or resources and relay information in a
  understandable manner
• Organize and prioritize service needs and delivery of service
• Prioritize and organize work
• Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
• Demonstrates commitment to anti-racism, cultural humility, and cultural safety
• Promote positive change
• Operate a computer and utilize the Electronic Medical Record software (Profile EMR –
  training available)
• Physically and emotionally able to carry out the duties of the position

Preferences:

• Three (3) years of recent primary care or community nursing experience considered an asset  

• Experience with chronic disease management considered an asset 

• Certifications in Sexual Health (Contraception/STI testing/cervical cancer screening) and/or Diabetes education considered an asset