Prima Health Co-operative is a hub of local innovation in health care. Operating as a non-profit organization, Prima Health aims to increase primary health care capacity and improve patient and population outcomes by running and providing management services to primary care clinics in the Kootenay-Boundary region.

At Beaver Valley Medical Clinic, we’re dedicated to providing the highest quality, comprehensive, accessible, patient-focused medical care through an evidence-based, caring, and collaborative approach.
Working with clinic leadership and reporting to the Prima Executive Director (ED), the Registered Nurse (RN) provides holistic, person-centered, and culturally-appropriate care along a continuum. The RN focuses on providing assessment, screening, healthy lifestyle support, education, and chronic disease management with a goal of improving health outcomes and facilitating access to services. The RN will initiate, implement, and monitor health care plans in collaboration with the patient, practitioners and other members of the interdisciplinary team.

REGISTERED NURSE ROLE
The RN will provide a range of services, including those outlined below, and other duties as assigned from time to time.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Delivers quality nursing patient care by:
Performing nursing activities, including crisis intervention, emergency assessment and care, point of care testing, specimen acquisition, in accordance with established policies, protocols and procedures, and arranging referral where necessary.
Assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, documenting, and evaluating the care needs and goals for individual patients and caregivers/families
Planning and participating in patient screening and recall strategies, including cervical cancer screening
Task management including lab requisitions, colon screening follow up, cervical cancer screening reports, BCCA notices, INRs, TSH, diagnostic requisitions/follow up and any specific tasks sent from practitioners that require follow up.
Conduct narcotic counts according to clinic protocols
Attends patient visits independently for ear syringing, ROS, self-injection teaching (IM and SC), dressing changes, ECG, UTIs, MoCA and mini-mental exams, and Drivers Medical eye exams
Sets up and assists with minor procedures
Managing RN email inbox and providing information to staff as required, including patient specific care instructions.
Checking results for practitioners during absences, assessing the urgency and escalating according to clinic protocols.
Reviewing patient care needs and treatment goals. Planning, implementing, and evaluating changes to the written team-based care plan as required.
Providing nursing assessment using tools and techniques based on the patient’s unique needs, including consultation services for patients (eg. completing and documenting a thorough medication assessment)
Participating in the maintenance of an accurate comprehensive health record. Documenting nursing care and nursing interventions according to BC College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) documentation practice standards.
Utilizing a variety of established health education, promotion, and service interventions, such as the Well Child Program, and Pre/Post-natal Care.
Optimizing capacities for health by modeling, counseling, and teaching life skills for individual patients and their caregivers/families.
Using epidemiological methods to investigate and follow-up on reportable communicable diseases in accordance with established policies and procedures.
Immunizing children and adults and monitoring of immunization status.
Conducting primarily in-person patient care, with some virtual visits, to monitor the care being provided in a safe, efficient, and effective manner, ensuring the achievement of identified service goals.
Acting as patient/community advocate.
Promoting and facilitating patient independence.
Collaborating with the multidisciplinary team of health care professionals and health care services and providers to facilitate quality patient care.
Coordinating care provision with other programs/services.
Provides health education and promotion and treatment services for patients, including individuals, families, care teams, groups, and communities. Areas of focus include high cholesterol, diabetes, proper puffer usage, and weight loss.
Provides chronic disease management for diabetes, COPD, and CHF
Documents and reports nursing care, in accordance with policies, protocols, procedures, and standards. Protects and secures all patient records and supplementary related documents by monitoring access and maintaining appropriate disposition of the documents/information to protect confidentiality. Provides patient data to specified healthcare professionals.
Processes and implements the care plans and orders of listed health professionals, in accordance with regulatory requirements, identifying and seeking clarification as necessary.
Participates in case conferences, treatment plan reviews, and staff meetings.
Maintains clinic lab to meet College of Physician Diagnostic Accreditation Program guidelines.
Contributes to a safe and healthy working environment by observing and promoting universal precautions and infection control procedures; removing obvious hazards; reporting faulty equipment, accidents, injuries and near misses; and participating in quality improvement.
Ensures competency and professional practice standards are met, in line with the regulatory controls on practice
Performs other nursing-related duties as required.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
The ideal candidate is an experienced and compassionate nurse who is reliable, takes initiative and has the following knowledge and capabilities:
Graduation from an approved School of Nursing with current practicing registration with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM)
Preferably five (5) years of recent primary care or community experience, knowledge of available programs and services including their interrelationships, and their function in delivering care in the community; or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
Certifications in Sexual Health (Contraception/STI testing/cervical cancer screening) and/or Diabetes education considered an asset
Experience with primary care nursing considered an asset

SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Demonstrate clinical competence within the RN scope of practice
Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, with other staff, and with patients and their caregivers/families
Intervene in crisis or difficult situations. Demonstrate conflict resolution, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
Utilize sound judgment, good observation and assessment skills, tact, and empathy.
Fact-find and seek out information and/or resources
Organize and prioritize service needs and delivery of service
Prioritize and organize work
Communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing
Demonstrates commitment to anti-racism, cultural humility, and cultural safety
Experience working with frail elderly and mental health patients would be a significant asset
Willingness and ability to perform phlebotomy (to cover Lab Assistant absences) would be an asset
Promote positive change
Operate a computer and utilize the Electronic Medical Record software (MedAccess EMR)
Physically and emotionally able to carry out the duties of the position

Please submit your resume and cover letter by January 5, 2025 to Jen Schmidt, Prima Health Cooperative, at jschmidt@primahealth.ca

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

This position is available to start immediately.

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POSITION
Up to 2.0 FTE (full-time equivalent), permanent positions available

HOURS / COMPENSATION
Up to 37.5 hours/week
$41-$51.86 hour based on education, experience, and FTE

Please submit your resume and cover letter by January 5, 2025 to Jen Schmidt, Prima Health Cooperative, at jschmidt@primahealth.ca