General Nursing
On general duty as either a Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse you work in a variety of clinical settings from hospital to long-term care facilities.
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Registered Nursing (General)
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Registered Nurses (RN) are responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of client care. Working in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, the RN ensures the delivery of client-centered care by assisting individual clients and their families by responding to changing health care needs.
Licensed Practical Nursing
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Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) play an integral role in assisting Registered Nurses and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams by performing assessments and planning, implementing and providing personal and nursing care to patients. Often LPN’s will work in long-term care facilities and support home health teams.
Specialty Nursing
Interior Health values a culture of continuous learning and development and where appropriate we encourage and support nurses with specialist post-graduate nursing certification programs.
Ambulatory Care Nursing
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Ambulatory Care nurses are responsible for assisting physicians with minor surgical procedures, GI lab, Endoscopy and client care.
Cardiac Registered Nursing
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As a Cardiac Registered Nurse of our surgical nursing team you will work collaboratively to provide pre and post-surgical care nursing care for cardiac surgery patients.
Critical/Intensive Care Nursing
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Critical care nurses provide specialized care to patients experiencing a life-threatening or potentially life-threatening illness. This care is complex, intensive and continuous. Nursing attributes required to practice critical care nursing include advanced theoretical knowledge, critical thinking, advanced problem solving, responsible leadership, advocacy, judgment and sound communication skills.
Diabetes Education Nursing
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As the Diabetes Education Nurse within a multidisciplinary team, you work with people of all ages and with all stages of diabetes. In your role, you will be responsible for educating individuals on topics such as gestational diabetes, pediatric diabetes, insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring.
Emergency Nursing
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Interior Health Hospitals and Urgent Health Centres provide a range of Critical Care/Emergency services and depending on the assigned clinical area within the facility/unit the Registered Nurse may be required to be competent in multiple clinical settings.
Hemodialysis (Renal) Nursing
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The Hemodialysis Registered Nurse provides nursing care and support to patients and families living with chronic kidney disease or kidney related problems who may be attending the facility for hemodialysis and other medical care.
Critical Care Transport/High Acuity Response Team (HART) Nursing
The HART program nurses are critical care trained registered nurses that bring the team to the patient in the outlying hospitals that require critical care. The patient is stabilized and transported to the most appropriate facility that can meet the higher level of care needed. Our HART nurses perform on average one transport/day with the majority of calls at a CTAS II level or higher.
Licensed Practical Nursing – Orthopedic Technician
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Primarily in a hospital setting, in a very fast paced environment, LPN Orthopaedic Technicians see anywhere from 100-120 adult and children patients daily. Patients require X-ray, casting, splinting and suture removal.
Mental Health & Substance Use (MHSU) Nursing
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The MHSU Registered Nurse functions as a member of a designated multi-disciplinary team whose purpose is to ensure that persons with serious severe and persistent mental health problems, and/or problematic substance use and/or development disability issues who may or may not be in crisis have access to timely, responsive, evidence based treatment and clinical supports across the continuum of available services.
Operating Room Nursing
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Operating Room Registered Nurses demonstrate the ability to provide safe and appropriate evidence-informed patient care in the circulating and scrub roles. They safely and competently recognize and respond to urgent and emergent situations in the perioperative nursing practice environment. In addition, they manage resources in the perioperative nursing practice environment (e.g. Sterilization and Disinfection, Sterile Technique, Positioning the Surgical Patient, Surgical Draping, Preoperative Skin Antisepsis, Surgical Instruments, Wound Closure, and Wound Healing, etc.).
Peri-Anesthesia (PARR) Nursing
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The Post Anesthetic Recovery Unit nurses care for patients that have recently undergone anesthesia. They are responsible for observing and treating patients post-operation and making sure they awake safely from anesthesia.
Perinatal (Maternity) Nursing
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As the Perinatal Nurse, you will focus on critical moments in the mother and neonate’s care while you are responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.
Psychiatric Nursing
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Registered Psychiatric Nurses are trained as critical thinkers, problem solvers, and decision-makers to provide safe and competent care to patients. They are strong advocates for their patients, in a shared partnership to ensure they get the best care to improve their health.
Rehabilitation Nursing
As a rehabilitation nurse your role works within a multidisciplinary team providing patient care for: paralysis, neuro-cognitive disorders, stroke rehab, and post-surgical patients all requiring rehabilitation needs.
Specialty Nursing Training Opportunities
Educational opportunities are available for RNs looking to expand their careers into a nursing specialty. A training position (a.k.a. education opportunity) is a full-time or part-time position created specifically for undergoing training. These are typically compressed time frame studies. The training position will have a line on a rotation and will require a Return of Service.
Critical Care/Intensive Care Specialty Training Opportunities
Interior Health has specialty education programs for a Critical Care Nurse. This in-house program uses the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (ACCN) Essentials of Critical Care Orientation (ECCO) program coordinated by the Interior Health Critical Care and Emergency Networks. Successful completion of this education would require an 18-month return of service commitment.
Emergency Specialty Training Opportunities
If you are an experienced registered nurse and would like to move into the emergency but do not have formal education, we would love to consider you for paid in-house emergency training. Successful completion of this education would require an 18-month return of service commitment.
Regional Emergency Department Education Program (REDEP) Summary
Regional Emergency Department Education Program (REDEP) Syllabus
Neonatal Specialty Training Opportunities
Perianesthesia (PARR) Specialty Training Opportunities
Interior Health has specialty education programs for the Perianesthesia Education Program (PEP). The PEP uses a standardized, evidence informed on-line curriculum offered by Elsevier, called ASPAN: Mosby’s Orientation to Perianesthesia Nursing (MOPAN) curriculum. Additional evidence informed on-line modules are completed through Essentials of Critical Care Orientation (ECCO). Successful completion of this education would require an 18-month return of service commitment.
Perinatal Specialty Training Opportunities
This Registered Nurse employee education opportunity is for the Accelerated Perinatal (AWHONN) Nursing Speciality Program. This in-house program uses the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) curriculum and is coordinated by the Interior Health Maternal, Newborn, Child and Youth Network. Successful completion of this education would require an 18-month return of service commitment.
Perioperative/Operating Room Specialty Training Opportunity
Interior Health has specialty education programs for Operating Room Nurses. The training is an in-house Regional Perioperative Education Program (RPEP) and is administered in a blended format. The program is a systematic integration of online and face-to-face learning aimed to facilitate critical thinking skills while applying an understanding of perioperative care. Successful completion of this education would require an 18-month return of service commitment.
Hemodialysis (Renal) Specialty Training Opportunities
The Interior Health Hemodialysis specialty education program is offered to Interior Health employees and coordinated by the Interior Health Renal Services Network, is an eight-week post basic program that involves classroom, laboratory and clinical practice. Upon successful completion of the classroom, laboratory and clinical portions of this course, the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) and Registered Nurse (RN) will have the competencies needed to care for clients in a hemodialysis setting in a competent and caring manner.
LPN specialty training
Perioperative – Operating Room, Ambulatory Surgery, GI Endoscopy
Expressing your interest in Funded RN or LPN Specialty Training Opportunities
Nurses interested in funded training, may express their interest by filling out a pre-screen questionnaire. The questionnaire assesses eligibility for funding, willingness to commit to training requirements, and entry level nursing skills and competencies.
Fill out a pre-screen questionnaire
For more information, email specialtyeducation@interiorhealth.ca.
Student Nursing
Employed Student Nursing
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Interior Health supports Bachelor of Science in Nursing Students (registered nurses/registered psychiatric nurses) with an employment opportunity within its Employed Student Nurse (ESN) Program. The ESN Program provides nursing students with a unique placement that fosters professional development and the consolidation of skills and abilities. It is designed to employ nursing students who have successfully completed their third-year in a recognized nursing education program.
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Are you a Licenced Practical Nurse, Registered Nurse or Registered Psychiatric Nurse student or recent graduate in a Canadian nursing program outside of British Columbia (BC)? Come to BC and experience the exceptional and diverse nursing opportunities within Interior Health. Not only are there opportunities to build your career, but endless opportunities to create your ideal lifestyle.
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