- Provides nursing care to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) 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
Registered Nurse - Vernon, Canada - Interior Health Authority
Description
About the Job:
The Registered Nurse:
Shifts of work will be scheduled days and nights; rotating from 07:00 to 19:15 hours and 19:00 to 07:15 hours.
About this location/unit:
Our Patient Services Tower has been completed and we have moved into our new Critical Care unit. The floor plan is 4 times the size of the vacated space with room to expand to 16 beds.
The new space offers a large, bright working area with wide halls, and lots of storage areas with windows surrounding the whole unit.
The new unit was designed to focus on the family unit as a whole being and the new ICU has three family areas; a waiting room, a quiet room and a family overnight room, the natural light and the private rooms make for a positive experience for patients and family members.
Our new decentralized model moves the nurse and services right to the patients bedside in satellite stations and provides access by all users, in a quiet, soothing experience that is reassuring to patients, families, and visitors.
The decentralized room provides optimal patient privacy and enhances private family interactions with patient, nurse and physician and other allied team members such as social workers, clerical staff, physiotherapists, dieticians and respiratory therapists.
VJH's Intensive Care Unit consists of 10 beds. Five RNs work Day Shift as well as five work Nights.
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.