Registered Nurse | Emergency
Interior Health AuthorityKelowna- Part-time
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 RELIEF PART-TIME (0.63 FTE) opportunity until February 25, 2025, or the return of the incumbent.
Shifts of work will be scheduled days and evenings; rotating from 07 : 30 to 15 : 30 and 15 : 30 to 23 : 30 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.
Our new ER department is quadruple the size of the previous department and features :
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.