Registered Nurse | Emergency

About the Job:

The Registered Nurse:

• Provides nursing care to emergency patients, both by working independently and as a member of an interdisciplinary team

• Enhances quality of life for the patient and family; consults, confers, and collaborates with other health care providers

• Demonstrates continuous improvement and evidence based practice in nursing practice

• Maintains and advances own clinical competence

• Participates on designated hospital committees/teams and approved research projects as assigned

This is a PERMANENT FULL-TIME (1.00 FTE) OPPORTUNITY.

Shifts of work will be scheduled days and evenings; rotating from 07:00 to 15:00, 15:00 to 23:00 hours.

About this location/unit:

The VJH Emergency department offers 26 beds plus two trauma rooms and two secure rooms and is located in the new Polson Tower. Our bright, spacious ED has been developed with consideration for privacy, confidentiality, infection control measures and features state-of-the-art technology in equipment (i.e. cardiac monitoring, diagnostic imaging in our trauma room, negative pressure isolation rooms), communication devices (Vocera, nurse call system), and other care delivery processes (pneumatic tube system, Rapid Assessment Zone, and Minor Treatment Area).

Interior Health is an organization where you have room to grow and where life outside of work is just as important to us as it is to you.