Registered Nurse - Kelowna, Canada - Interior Health Authority

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    PERMANENT Full time
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    About the Job:




    The Registered Nurse:

    • Provides nursing care to 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
    We currently have PERMANENT PART-TIME AND FULL-TIME opportunities available, with FTE ranging from 0.49 to 1.0.

    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 6W is a medical unit (Stroke/GI). We are seeking a Registered Nurse who has strong acute medical experience, exceptional clinical and critical thinking skills and the adaptability and enthusiasm to excel in a medical position where you may be assigned as needed for work in any of our fast paced medical units.


    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.