Hospital Acute Care Registered Nurse

Support Acute Medicine patients as a Registered Nurse at Vancouver General Hospital, using clinical assessment and IV therapy skills.

Vancouver Coastal Health seeks a Registered Nurse for its Acute Medicine team. You will provide independent and interdisciplinary nursing care for patients with complex diseases, respiratory therapies, IV therapies, addictions, and nutritional therapies. The work includes focused secondary assessments, integrating diagnostic information, and developing relevant care plans. You will anticipate complications, manage acute pain, administer medications safely, and support respiratory, nutritional, wound, drainage, and transfusion care.

Documentation must meet organizational and unit standards. Practice remains within your competence, organizational scope, BCCNM standards, and VCH clinical guidance.

• Perform focused secondary assessments for designated patient groups
• Integrate diagnostics and develop individualized plans of care
• Manage acute pain, medication reconciliation, transcription, and administration
• Provide respiratory, IV, nutritional, wound, and transfusion care
• Anticipate complications and respond to emerging care issues

• Current practicing registration with BCCNM as a Registered Nurse
• Demonstrated Acute Medicine nursing practice with complex patients
• Knowledge of pathophysiology for common diagnoses and clinical situations
• Skill with PICC lines, CVCs, and automated infusion devices
• Accurate, timely documentation using appropriate systems and forms

Apply Acute Medicine nursing judgment, IV expertise, and safe patient care skills within VCH standards and practice requirements.