Registered Nurse, Primary Care

Salary: CAD $41.42 - $59.52 / hour

Job Summary:

We invite you to apply today and find out why more than 95% of new employees recommend Fraser Health to their friends as an exceptional place to work. Fraser Health is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services to over 1.9 million people in 20 diverse communities from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations.

Detailed Overview:
In accordance with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) standards of practice and the Mission and Values of Fraser Health, works collaboratively and as a member of an inter-professional team to provide direct patient care to clients of the Urgent Primary Care Centre.

Responsibilities:

• Provides direct nursing care to clients receiving scheduled or urgent/timely primary care.
• Processes physician or nurse practitioner orders by initiating unit standing orders, administering medications, carrying out treatments and monitoring and documenting the effects.
• Establishes a therapeutic relationship with the client through the use of interpersonal and interviewing techniques.
• Screens referrals, provides individualized client assessments, inter-professional care planning and interventions when appropriate and referral services for clients with multiple complex conditions.
• Develops a comprehensive shared client care plan, in collaboration with the inter-professional team, primary care provider, client and/or family, other healthcare providers and/or referring clinics.
• Provides direct planned and unplanned client care and identifies other care services required in accordance with applicable guidelines, policies and evidence-based best practice.
• Reviews client care plans, in collaboration with the inter-professional team/primary care provider to determine timing and referral to other services and/or interventions to improve client outcomes.
• Discusses clinical findings with client/family, in collaboration with the inter-professional team to develops action plans and sets goals directed at clinical needs, self
  -management, self-care and improved health-related quality of life.
• Supports clients and their families clinic visits by providing information through their decision-making process regarding treatment options.
• Arranges and participates in outreach nursing care to clients in their home setting or suitable alternative, as required.
• Provides health counselling to clients including education, self-management, self-monitoring and wellness/health promotion/prevention.
• Maintains clinical records such as intake screens, client assessments, clinical interventions, treatment formulations, care plans and progress notes.
• Maintains professional practice growth, knowledge and expertise to reflect current standards of practice.
• Participates in department quality improvement and risk management activities by identifying client care issues and collecting data.
• Participates in the orientation and ongoing education of nursing staff and students by providing information and acting as a preceptor as appropriate.
• Provides input in the development and revision of standards of care, policies and procedures and advocates for improvements in clinical practice, health care and health care services.
• Performs other related duties, as assigned.

Qualifications:

Education and Experience:

Current practicing registration as a Registered Nurse with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM). One (1) year recent related clinical experience in acute care, urgent/emergency care or related clinical area including assessing and treating children, youth and adults in an acute or community/outpatient care setting, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Skills And Abilities:

• Demonstrated ability to complete initial and ongoing client assessments and provide nursing care through therapeutic interventions.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrated ability to integrate and evaluate pertinent data from multiple sources to problem-solve effectively.
• Knowledge of broad health care services,…