Company Description
The Central Okanagan Division of Family Practice represents family doctors serving Kelowna, West Kelowna, Lake Country, and Peachland. Founded in 2010, we are a physician-led, non-profit cooperative that identifies healthcare priorities and collaborates with local physicians, health authorities, and community partners to improve patient care. As one of 36 Divisions of Family Practice in BC, we are committed to addressing key health challenges through strategic, locally driven solutions. The Central Okanagan Division is actively supporting recruitment of health care professionals into Central Okanagan family practices. The patient medical homes regularly inform the Division of opportunities available within their clinics.
Position Summary
Working independently and participating as a member of a team-based care, the Registered Nurse, Primary Care is responsible for direct nursing patient care at Capri Medical Centre and partners with and complements members of the primary care team. The RN focuses on providing assessment, screening, healthy lifestyle support, education, and chronic disease management with a goal of improving health outcomes and facilitating access to services for the entire patient population.
Responsibilities
As determined by the needs identified by the physicians at Capri Medical Centre the nurse:
1. Delivers quality nursing patient care by Performing nursing activities, including crisis intervention, emergency assessment and care, point of care testing, specimen acquisition, in accordance with established policies, protocols and procedures, and arranging referrals where necessary.
- Assessing, planning, implementing, documenting, and evaluating the care needs and goals for individual patients, caregivers/families, and communities. Planning and participating in patient screening and recall strategies.
- Providing information to staff as required, including patient specific care instructions.
- Reviewing patient care needs and treatment goals. Planning, implementing, and evaluating changes to the written team-based care plan as required.
- Providing nursing assessment using tools and techniques based on patient’s unique needs. Providing consultation services for patients, for example, completing and documenting a thorough medication assessment.
- Participating in the maintenance of an accurate comprehensive health record. Documenting nursing care and nursing interventions according to BC College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) documentation practice standards.
- Utilizing 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.
- Using epidemiological methods to investigate and follow-up on reportable communicable diseases in accordance with established policies and procedures.
- Immunizing children and adults and monitoring of immunization status.
- Conducting in-person patient care, virtual and home visits as applicable, to monitor the care being provided in a safe, efficient, and effective manner, ensuring the achievement of identified service goals.
- Acting as patient/community advocate.
- Promoting and facilitating patient independence.
- Collaborating with the multidisciplinary team of health care professionals and health care services and providers to facilitate quality patient care.
- Coordinating care provision with other programs/services.
2. Provides health education and promotion and treatment services for patients, including individuals, families, care teams, groups, and communities.
3. Documents and reports nursing care, in accordance with policies, protocols, procedures, and standards. Protects and secures all patient records and supplementary related documents by monitoring access and maintaining appropriate disposition of the documents/information to protect confidentiality. Provides patient data to specified healthcare professionals.
4. Processes and implements the care plans and orders of listed health professionals, in accordance with regulatory requirements, identifying and seeking clarification as necessary.
5. Participates in case conferences, treatment plan reviews, and staff meetings.
6. Promotes good public relations and community awareness within the multidisciplinary team, and with others, including community resources.
7. Contributes 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.
8. Ensures competency and professional practice standards are met, in line with the regulatory controls on practice.
9. Advocates for education, continuing professional development, and training as required to maintain and expand competence to meet patient needs.
10. Participates in fire prevention and disaster plans as required.
11. Performs other nursing-related duties as required.
Education, Training, and Experience
- Registration with BC College of Nurses and Midwives as a practicing RN registrant in good standing.
- Preferably five (5) years of recent related primary care or community experience, 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.
- Basic Life Support, CPR Level C certificate.
- Desirable certifications: immunizations, wound care, ear syringing, MOCA certification, Trails B education, smoking cessation.
- Valid BC driver’s license may be required.
Skills And Abilities
- Apply nursing process as required and described in BC College of Nurses and Midwives Standards of Nursing Practice.
- Demonstrate clinical competence within the registered nurse scope of practice.
- Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, with other staff, 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. Fact-find and seek out information and/or resources.
- Organize and prioritize service needs and delivery of service. Prioritize and organize work.
- Maintain a commitment to continuing professional development as required, to meet professional practice standards, maintain and grow competence, and meet patient needs.
- Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Comfort interacting with patients in English.
- Demonstrates commitment to anti-racism, cultural humility, and cultural safety
- Promote positive change.
- Foster and promote good public relations.
- Operate related equipment, including computers.
- Physically and emotionally able to carry out the duties of the position.
- Use of a personal vehicle may be required.
Compensation: $46 - $52 per hour
Job Type: Full-time, Schedule determined by the clinic.
Benefits: Opportunity to participate in shared benefits plan after 3 months.
Vacancies: This position has one vacancy.
We appreciate and thank all applicants for their interest, however only short-listed candidates, and those legally eligible to work in Canada will be considered.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $46.00-$52.00 per hour
Work Location: In person
