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.

Key Responsibilities
The RN will provide a range of services, including those outlined below, and other duties as assigned from time to time.
– 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.
– Attends patient visits independently for ear syringing, removal of sutures, self-injection teaching, dressing changes, ECG, UTIs, MOCA and mini-mental exams, and Drivers Medical eye exams
– Sets up and assists with minor procedures
– Provides information to team members 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
– Identifies the need for, leads, and participates in Quality Improvement Cycles
– 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.
– 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

Qualifications and Skills
– Graduation from an approved School of Nursing with current practicing registration and license with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM)
– Preferably three (3) years of recent primary care or community nursing experience *Experience with primary care nursing considered an asset but not required*
– Certifications in Sexual Health (Contraception/STI testing/cervical cancer screening) and/or Diabetes education considered an asset
– Experience working with frail elderly and mental health patients would be a significant asset
– Valid Class 5 Driver’s License

The following knowledge, skills, and abilities are considered essential to fulfill the duties of the RN role:

– Demonstrate clinical competence within the RN scope of practice
– Work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team, with other team members, 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
– 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
– Fact-find and seek out information and/or resources and relay information in a understandable manner
– 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
– Promote positive change
– Operate a computer and utilize the Electronic Medical Record software (Profile EMR – training available)
– Physically and emotionally able to carry out the duties of the position

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Role: Registered Nurse
Reports to: Executive Director
Location: Trail, British Columbia
Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Salary: $89,840 – 99,840 depending on education and experience

Are you passionate about making a meaningful impact on the health and well-being of diverse communities?

Are you ready to work in a vibrant, interdisciplinary healthcare team in beautiful Trail, BC?

About Us
The Lower Columbia Community Health Centre Network Society is a not-for-profit organization committed to providing holistic, accessible healthcare to all – especially the vulnerable populations we serve.

Located amidst the stunning natural beauty of the Kootenay region, our organization owns and operates the Lower Columbia CHC, a new community health centre in Trail, BC.

We are looking to add to our multidisciplinary team that delivers comprehensive team-based care addressing the physical, mental, and social determinants of health.

Why Join Us?
*Make a Difference: Impact lives directly and drive health equity in a supportive community.
*Enjoy Life in BC: Live in the breathtaking Kootenay region, where outdoor adventures and close-knit communities await.
*Professional Growth: Work in a healthcare model that values learning and growth and gain experience delivering team-based care that meets the needs of the community.

If you’d like to join the team in a meaningful role, apply today and help us build a healthier future for the Lower Columbia region!

To Apply: Please send your resume and a cover letter detailing your passion for community health and relevant experience to lcchcnetwork@gmail.com.

Expected start date: June 23, 2025.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Individuals will not be discriminated against because of disability, sex, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, veteran status or any other protected status under law.

The Lower Columbia CHC Network is an organization where every voice matters.