Registered Nurse, Primary Care

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Salary: CAD $41.42 - $59.52 / hour

Fraser Health is responsible for the delivery of hospital and community-based health services from Burnaby to Fraser Canyon on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations, and is home to six Métis Chartered Communities. Our team of 45,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers is dedicated to serving our patients, families and communities to deliver on our vision:
Better health, best in health care. Fraser Health is committed to planetary health, values diversity in the work force, and strives to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring and Trust. We offer opportunities to grow, competitive compensation (including four weeks of vacation to start), comprehensive health benefits, and a pension plan.

Join our team to work in a rapidly growing organization with health professionals who excel in their fields, and a rewarding daily impact in health care.

• Provides direct nursing care to clients receiving scheduled or urgent/timely primary care; assesses clients and collects information from a variety of sources using skills of observation, communication, data review and physical assessment; makes a nursing diagnosis of the client's condition and determines whether it can be improved or resolved by an appropriate nursing intervention or through interventions and collaboration with other clinical staff.
• 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 interpersonal and interviewing techniques, in person and/or over the telephone, to ensure the client's choice and autonomy in decision-making and care planning including the client's right to dignity and privacy.
• Screens referrals, provides individualized client assessments, inter-professional care planning and interventions as appropriate and referral services for clients with multiple complex conditions; assists clients to achieve an optimal level of function by facilitating timely and appropriate health services and utilizing a variety of resources and services; collaborates with the primary care provider, client, the family/supports/caregivers, other health care professionals, clinics, hospitals and other community resources to identify and resolve client care issues and coordinate the integration of care and services.
• 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; facilitates and supports the transition of the client care plan to the primary/community care provider and/or community agencies.
• Provides direct planned and unplanned client care and identifies other care services required in accordance with applicable guidelines, policies and evidence-based best practice; provides comprehensive explanations of care to the client and family, as appropriate.
• 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; initiates, monitors and evaluates the appropriateness and effectiveness of the short and long term care plan to meet specific client goals; develops next steps in collaboration with the client and family; develops and supports a transition process for achieving client care goals across the care continuum.
• Discusses clinical findings with client/family, in collaboration with the inter-professional team to develop action plans and sets goals directed at clinical needs, self-management, self-care and improved health-related quality of life; accesses system information and resources to review client data such as medical history, progress notes, consultation reports, lab reports and incorporates findings into the care plan; plans, organizes and establishes priorities by using resources effectively and efficiently;
  
  responds to unanticipated events and/or changing client or service assignment needs, as needed.
• Supports clients and their families during clinic visits by providing information through their decision-making process regarding treatment options; advocates on behalf of the client/family to support their choices and needs and provides direct care to client as they transition to another program, service or healthcare provider.
• Arranges and participates in outreach nursing care to clients in their home setting or suitable alternative, as required; performs nursing functions such as assessment, determining physical and mental status, and evaluating response to medications administered; formulates and explains plan of care to client/family or supportive care persons and provides advice to the…