Registered Nurse, Transition Line; Specialty Nursing ICU Regional Hospital and Ca

Registered Nurse, Transition Line (Specialty Nursing) ICU - Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre

Salary: CAD $41.42 - $59.52 / hour

Job Summary:

Joining our team offers you opportunities to work in a rapidly growing organization with health professionals who are excellent in their respective fields, career growth and advancement, a competitive compensation package (including four weeks of vacation to start, comprehensive health benefits, and a pension plan), and the rewarding opportunity to make a difference every single day in health care. Fraser Health values diversity in the workforce and strives to maintain an environment of respect, caring, and trust.

Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable, and culturally safe manner.

• Assess patients and collect information from a variety of sources using skills of observation, communication, data review and physical assessment. Make a nursing diagnosis of the patient's condition and determine whether the condition can be improved or resolved by an appropriate nursing intervention. Plan, perform and evaluate nursing interventions and care.
• Collaborate with patients and their families/caregivers in developing the care plan and encourage family participation in the development, implementation, and ongoing modification of the care plan. Establish a therapeutic relationship by demonstrating empathy, trust and respect, advocating for the patient's rights to privacy, dignity and access to information, and by ensuring the patient's choice and autonomy in decision making and care planning.
• Participate in the care and discharge planning process for patients on admission by ensuring the care plan is established, implemented, and evaluated effectively, updating the care plan in a timely manner, and intervening as appropriate, collaborating with the interprofessional care team to ensure comprehensive care planning and delivery, and collaborating and communicating with the Patient Care Coordinator on issues that will affect the care/discharge plan.
• Coordinate nursing care for the patient; set priorities, assign and delegate tasks to support staff, and make referrals to the interprofessional care team according to established protocols and practice standards.
• Collaborate with members of the interprofessional care team including Physicians, Licensed Practical Nurses, Patient Care Coordinator, Clinical Nurse Educators, and other health care professionals/providers in the identification and resolution of issues, adjustments to care plans as required, and in regard to changes in patient condition.
• Teach patients and families/caregivers about illness prevention, health restoration and health maintenance to help patients accomplish their health care goals. Assess learning needs of the patient and family/caregiver; provide information and demonstration of care activities to support self-care and the discharge plan.
• Plan and discuss referral information with patient and their families/caregivers and, in collaboration with members of the interprofessional care team, initiate referrals to appropriate health care/community agencies.
• Document assessments, nursing diagnosis, observations, interventions, patient/family responses, outcomes/evaluations, and referrals according to practice standards and Fraser Health procedures.
• Participate on nursing committees, care conferences and councils as assigned or as agreed to with the Manager.
• Participate in research and quality improvement activities by identifying patient care issues, collecting data, and identifying needs and recommendations for corrective action and changes to practices, procedures or protocols.
• Participate in and attend in‑services and other educational programmes. Identify own learning goals and maintain and update current clinical competence and knowledge within area of practice.
• Provide feedback to the Manager/delegate regarding the effectiveness of patient care programmes, policy/clinical decision support tools (e.g. clinical pathways, standards, order sets and procedures) and equipment.
• Perform other related duties as required.