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Are you a Registered Nurse with critical care or coronary care training who has a passion for excellence and great interpersonal skills? If yes, we would love to hear from you!
About the Job:
The Registered Nurse:
- Through assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of quality patient care delivery;
- Provides comprehensive and coordinated nursing care to clients as a member of an interdisciplinary health care team, working collaboratively with family practice and/or specialist care physicians, health authority clinics and/or other community locations.
- Assists individuals with cardiac rhythm disorders, cardiovascular and other related chronic conditions in individual, group or telehealth settings, to achieve and maintain optimal health through collaborative patient-centered goal setting and action planning, case management, chronic disease related education, health promotion and other clinical care, follow-up monitoring and treatment.
About this location/unit:
The Pacemaker Clinic exemplifies teamwork and collectively provides a high level of quality care in their nursing practice. PRH is a wonderful hospital and community, with a culture that is friendly, warm and supportive. This facility is small enough to be a family and big enough to provide opportunity and challenge for you in your nursing practice.
Community: The city of Penticton is located in BC’s scenic south central region in the Okanagan Valley. With its mild climate, easy accessibility, urban amenities and world-class recreational opportunities, it offers an attractive lifestyle. Boating, windsurfing, hiking and skiing are among the numerous outdoor leisure pursuits enjoyed here.
Penticton Regional Hospital (PRH) acts as a referral centre to three community hospitals and one diagnostic centre in the South Okanagan and includes a regional population of 85,000. It has an operating capacity of 129 acute beds and 102 extended care beds. A full range of services are provided with the exception of open heart surgery, neuro surgery, and recent spinal cord injury care. This is a great place to experience a variety of medical and surgical nursing units and build and expand your nursing skills.
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. Apply Today!
- Graduation from an approved school of nursing plus two years recent related critical/coronary care nursing experience which includes: experience working with implanted cardiac devices; formal experience in behavioral/lifestyle counseling; identification and management of cardiovascular/chronic disease risk factors and conditions; and one year recent adult learner teaching experience in a formal setting; or an equivalent combination of education training and experience.
- Completion of CPR certification within the last 3 years.
- Current practicing registration with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).