Registered Nurse | Stroke Clinic

About the Job :

The Registered Nurse :

• Provides nursing care to stroke patients, both by working independently and as a member of an interdisciplinary team; follows patient throughout their journey in the hospital
• 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
• Provides stroke related education for patients, families and health care providers (HCP)
• Delivers interdisciplinary & interdepartmental collaboration for coordination of stroke care
• Supports adoption & adherence to stroke best-practices
• Identification & communication of stroke-related patient safety issues or concerns
• Supports clinical uptake of stroke-related processes & improvement work
• Provides orientation of new staff and support of the bedside nurse

This is a CASUAL OPPORTUNITY. Casual means hours are not guaranteed and may vary and shifts may be at short notice. Casual employees are eligible to apply for internal postings including permanent and temporary positions. There are many opportunities with Interior Health that begin with casual employment and lead to regular employment.

Shifts of work will be scheduled days; with shift times from 07 : 00 to 18 : 10 hours.

About this location / unit :

Interior Health has embarked on an expansion plan to meet increasing demands, expand health services, and enhance patient care in the Okanagan. Construction of the six-storey, Centennial Patient Care Tower was completed in May 2012. It includes an expanded emergency department and ambulatory care department, five new operating rooms, a rooftop helipad, an expanded adult inpatient psychiatric unit, and extra space for more patient beds in the future. Kelowna General Hospital is the site of the brand new clinical academic campus for the University of BC Medical School.

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.