Registered Nurse (RN) | Medical

Interior Health Authority; Kelowna; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 95,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Shift premiums

Generous vacation entitlement

Employer paid health benefits

Municipal Pension Plan

Job summary

Interior Health is seeking a patient-focused, team-oriented Registered Nurse to join our Medical team at the Kelowna General Hospital in Kelowna, B.C.

Shifts include days and nights; permanent part-time opportunities are available with the KGH Medical team. Interior Health offers benefits and opportunities for career growth within a diverse, inclusive workplace.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate client care
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team
• Deliver client-centered care and respond to changing health care needs
• Apply nursing knowledge and evidence-based practice

Job description

Interior Health is seeking a patient focused; team oriented Registered Nurse to join our Medical team at the Kelowna General Hospital in beautiful Kelowna, B.C.

Who We Are

Interior Health (IH) is committed to achieving a culturally diverse and inclusive workforce that is representative of the communities we serve, and where you are encouraged to bring your whole self to work. Well-being and work life balance is promoted within the IH team, and our commitment to environmental sustainability supports our primary goal of increasing the health and well-being of everybody in the Interior Health region from our employees to the population we serve.

What We Offer

We offer a range of employee benefits and services to support you at every stage of your career:

• Employee & Family Assistance Program
• Employer paid training/education opportunities
• Generous Vacation Entitlement
• Employer Paid Health Benefits
• Municipal Pension Plan
• Shift Premiums
• Competitive wages

About The Job

• Practices in a variety of clinical settings and is responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of client care
• Works in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team
• Ensures the delivery of client–centered care by assisting individual clients and their families respond to changing health care needs
• Demonstrates a specialized body of knowledge and bases practice on nursing science and related content from other sciences and humanities

We currently have Permanent Part Time opportunities available with the KGH Medical team.

Shifts of work will be scheduled days and nights; rotating from 07:00 to 19:00, 19:00 to 07:00 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.

• Unit 3MU (Medical Unit) is a new, 18-bed Medical Overflow unit
• Unit 4A is a 32-bed Medical Renal unit
• Unit 4B is a 32-bed combined Respirology/Oncology unit
• Unit 4 East is a 32-bed Geriatric Medical unit
• Unit 5B is a 24 bed Medical/GI Unit
• Unit 6 West is a 34-bed Stroke/Clinical Teaching Unit
• The Rehab unit includes 38 Rehab beds