Salary: CAD $41.42 - $59.52 / hour

Job Summary

Join our collegial-spirited team at Burnaby Hospital as we build for the future of health care in Burnaby. The Burnaby Hospital redevelopment project is a multi-phase project that will transform the hospital into a modernized medical and surgical health care campus.

Phase one is slated to open in spring 2025 and phase two in 2030.

Highlights of the two-phase redevelopment project include:

- Expanded Emergency Department with additional treatment spaces
- New health care pavilion with 83 beds to support maternity, neonatal intensive care, medicine, and mental health patients
- New operating rooms, procedure rooms, and recovery spaces
- New acute care tower with 160 beds
- New medical imaging department
- New integrated BC Cancer Centre

Burnaby Hospital plays an essential role to those living in the community by delivering a variety of health care services and specialties including emergency medicine, intermediate-level critical care, medical imaging, internal medicine, hospitalist medicine, geriatric medicine, neurology, gastroenterology, palliative, psychiatry, oncology, outpatient clinics, and an extensive surgery program with anesthesia, orthopedics, general surgery, ENT, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, urology, and plastic specialties.

Position

Registered Nurse, Surgical Services – Inpatient

Perks

- Comprehensive, 100% Employer-Paid Benefits: full coverage
- Generous Vacation Time: eligible employees can start earning up to four weeks of vacation in the first year
- Benefit Portability: transfer benefits from another HEABC employer
- Immediate Pension Enrollment: defined municipal pension plan from day one
- Maternity Top‑Up: 87% top‑up during maternity leave
- Trans Link Pass Subsidy: 50% subsidy on Trans Link passes
- Additional employee discounts and perks available

Eligibility based on employment status.

Detailed Overview

In accordance with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) standards of practice and the mission and values of Fraser Health, and working collaboratively and in partnership with the interprofessional care team in the provision of person‑centered care, the Registered Nurse provides direct patient care by assessing, planning, providing, and evaluating nursing care to patients in an acute medical unit.

Responsibilities

1. Assesses patients and collects information from a variety of sources using skills of observation, communication, data review, and physical assessment. Makes a nursing diagnosis of the patient's condition and determines whether the condition can be improved or resolved by an appropriate nursing intervention. Plans, performs, and evaluates nursing interventions and care.
2. Collaborates with patients and their families/caregivers in developing the care plan and encourages family participation in its development, implementation, and ongoing modification. Establishes a therapeutic relationship by demonstrating empathy, trust, and respect, advocating for the patient's rights to privacy, dignity, and access to information, and ensuring the patient's choice and autonomy in decision making and care planning.
3. Participates in the care and discharge planning process for patients on admission by ensuring the care plan is established and implemented effectively, updating the care plan and intervening as appropriate,



collaborating with the interprofessional care team to ensure comprehensive care planning and delivery, and collaborating and communicating with the Patient Care Coordinator on issues that will affect the care/discharge plan.
4. Coordinates nursing care for the patient; sets priorities, assigns and delegates tasks to support staff, and makes referrals to the interprofessional care team according to established protocols and practice standards.
5. Receives and prepares patients for testing by receiving requisitions from physicians, reviewing patients' case history, correlating clinical history with examination to be performed, assessing the nature of the issue to determine a process for testing, explaining procedures to patients, and monitoring patient comfort level to ensure patient is at ease while obtaining required results.
6. Performs non‑invasive diagnostic tests on the vascular system by positioning patient, performing resting and exercise ankle‑brachial indexes, toe‑brachial indexes, thoracic outlet testing, and operating continuous wave Doppler and/or plethysmography equipment. Performs Transcutaneous Oxygen Measurement (TCOM) by operating the transcutaneous oxygen machine. Assesses test results, records findings, submits results and summary to physicians for review, reporting, and authorization.
7. Collaborates with members of the interprofessional care team including physicians, licensed practical nurses, patient care coordinator, clinical nurse educators, and other healthcare professionals/providers in the identification and resolution of issues, adjustments to care plans as required, and in regard to changes in patient condition.
8. Teaches patients and families/caregivers about illness prevention, health restoration and health maintenance to help patients accomplish their health care goals. Assesses learning needs of the patient and family/caregiver; provides information and demonstration of care activities to support self‑care and the discharge plan.
9. Plans and discusses referral information with patient and their families/caregivers and, in collaboration with members of the interprofessional care team, initiates referrals to appropriate health care/community agencies.
10. Documents assessments, nursing diagnosis, observations, interventions, patient/family responses, outcomes/evaluations, and referrals according to practice standards and Fraser Health procedures.
11. Participates on nursing committees, care conferences and councils as assigned or as agreed to with the Manager.
12. Participates in research and quality improvement activities by identifying patient care issues, collecting data, and identifying needs and recommendations for corrective action and changes to practices, procedures, or protocols.
13. Participates in and attends in‑services and other educational programs. Identifies own learning goals and maintains and updates current clinical competence and knowledge within area of practice.
14.



Acts as a preceptor or mentor to assigned new nursing staff and students; shares information, demonstrates care activities, participates in orientation.
15. Provides feedback to the Manager/delegate regarding the effectiveness of patient care programs, policy/clinical decision support tools (e.g. clinical pathways, standards, order sets and procedures), and equipment.
16. Performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Graduation from an approved School of Nursing with current practicing registration as a Registered Nurse with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).

RNs performing ABI procedures under Duties 5 and 6 are required to be deemed qualified after the successful completion of the Fraser Health Regional ABI course.

Skills and Abilities

- Ability to complete initial and ongoing patient assessment (clinical and diagnostic reasoning) and provide nursing care through appropriate/prescribed technical, therapeutic, safety‑type interventions.
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients, families/caregivers, the public, medical staff and members of the interprofessional care team using verbal, written, and electronic communication means.
- Ability to promote person‑centered care that demonstrates empathy for patients and families/caregivers, sensitivity to diverse cultures and preferences, and patient advocacy.
- Ability to integrate and evaluate data from multiple sources to problem‑solve effectively.
- Ability to teach and instruct patients and families/caregivers about topics essential to their health care and well‑being.
- Ability to organize and prioritize work.
- Ability to collaborate with and promote cooperation among members of the interprofessional care team.
- Ability to use factual information, prior learning, and basic principles and procedures to support nursing decisions and actions with relevant research‑based evidence/informed practice.
- Ability to operate related equipment including relevant computer applications.
- Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.

About Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.
People – those we care for and those who care for them – are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community‑based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers. We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the workforce.

We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

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📌 Registered Nurse, Surgical Services - Inpatient - Burnaby Hospital
🏢 Fraser Health
📍 Burnaby