General Description The Primary Care Registered Nurse (RN) is a key member of the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation Health Services team and works within a collaborative, multidisciplinary primary care model to deliver comprehensive, culturally safe, and trauma-informed healthcare services. The RN provides direct primary care to individuals and families across the lifespan, promoting health, preventing illness, managing chronic conditions, and supporting overall wellness through evidence-informed nursing practice.
Working in partnership with clients, families, Elders, community members, and healthcare professionals, the RN assesses, plans, implements, coordinates, and evaluates care to support positive health outcomes. The RN is committed to fostering a welcoming, respectful, and racism-free environment that honours Indigenous cultures, values, traditions, and ways of knowing. Through cultural humility and trauma- and violence-informed practice, the RN supports holistic wellness and contributes to advancing health equity and reconciliation.
The Registered
Nurse (RN) Daily reports to Community Nurse and is managed by the Health Department Manager.
The RN practices in accordance with the standards, ethics, and scope of practice established by the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM), applicable legislation, and Lheidli T’enneh First Nation policies and procedures.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Provides holistic patient assessments that include health history, medication history, and physical evaluations with patience and Cultural Humility.
2. Demonstrates cultural humility, trauma and violence informed practice and provides care that acknowledges the client’s values, cultural beliefs, and practices.
3. Respectfully acknowledges lived experiences, history and provides non-judgmental advice/answers to client’s primary concerns.
4. Respectfully acknowledges lived experiences, history and provides nonjudgemental advice/answers to client’s primary concerns.
5. Monitors, assesses and documents observations, symptoms, interventions and changes in client health status.
6. Within scope of practice, orders diagnostic tests and/or collects specimens to inform evidence-based care decisions.
7. Documents assessments, interventions, care plans, outcomes, and other relevant information in the client’s health record in a timely, accurate, and confidential manner.
8. Applies health promotion, chronic disease management, advanced care planning, and self-management principles to assess client needs,
provide direct care, and address changes in health status with empathy, cultural humility, and a trauma-informed approach.
9. Administers medications, injections and treatments according to established policies and protocols and within the scope of practice.
10. Collaborates with clients and families to plan, implement, coordinate, and evaluate client care plans in consultation with members of interprofessional health team as needed.
11. Reviews clinical findings with client/family and the interprofessional team, collaboratively, identifies client centered goals and plans for care that promote self-management and improved health-related quality of life.
12. Champions cultural safety and humility in all aspects of the job, and advocates for and applies culturally relevant and appropriate approaches when building relationships and providing nursing services.
13. Maintains competency that reflects current standards of practice, including anti-racism and cultural humility standards as they are developed, by engaging in professional development activities including review of relevant literature, attending educational workshops and in-services, consulting and networking with other health care professionals.
14. Adheres to the principles and values of FNHA in representing and delivering nursing services.
15. Performs other related duties as assigned.
JOB SPECIFICATIONS
Education
· Completion of a recognized Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) or an equivalent combination of education.
Certification
· Current practicing registration as a Registered Nurse with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).
· CPR Certification.
· BCCDC Immunization Certification an asset.
· A valid Class 5 BC Driver’s License
Experience
- A minimum of 3 years of recent related experience in primary care, public health, community and/or chronic disease care.
- Experience working with and delivering health services to First Nations clients
- Training in anti-Indigenous racism response and cultural safety and humility
- Experience integrating holistic Indigenous approaches with Western approaches
Knowledge
- Strong knowledge of cultural safety, humility and trauma informed approaches to care.
- Knowledge of, and ability to apply, an understanding of First Nations cultural principles and protocols in work situations.
- Knowledge of, and the ability to apply, an understanding of the Canadian Community Health Nursing Standards of Practice.
- Sound ability to practice using culturally secure and trauma-informed approaches
- Ability to apply a two-eyed seeing approach to balance western and Traditional Indigenous worldviews in practice
- Understanding of own intersectionality, power, privilege, and how these concepts may impact own work and perspectives
- An understanding of rural and remote communities and their inherent challenges and barriers
- Creates and fosters a healthy and engaging environment that enables personal excellence, contributes to FNHA’s vision of “Health through Wellness” and cultural safety and humility in the workplace.
- Knowledge of health status of populations, inequities in health, the determinants of health and illness, principals of primary care, strategies for health promotion, disease and injury prevention, health protection, curative, urgent and emergent care, rehabilitation and supportive or palliative care.
- Knowledge of nursing which includes the nursing process, conceptual frameworks of nursing, theories and principles of nursing practice.
- Demonstrated understanding and integration of Trauma Informed Practice to care.
- Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
Benefits: Lheidli T’enneh offers full benefit package after three (03) months which includes extended health, dental insurance, disability, life insurance.
On top of salary and vacation pay, we also provide 18 days of paid elective days in a calendar year, two (02) weeks of paid additional vacation during Christmas, % matching pension plan, mileage allowance/use of company vehicle for work purposes etc.
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
How to apply:
Submit resume with cover letter and three work related references (Please do not use personal reference) to:
Human Resources
Lheidli T’enneh First Nation
1041 Whenun Road, Prince George, BC, V2K 5X8
Website: http://www.lheidli.ca
Email:
[email protected]
Preference will be given to individuals with Lheidli T'enneh membership who meet the qualifications.
Pay: $41.42-$50.42 per hour
Benefits
- Casual dress
- Dental care
- In office parking
- Paid time off
- RRSP match
Work Location: In person
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