Registered Nurse/Registered Psychiatric Nurse, Inpatient Psychiatry Unit - Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre

Job summary

The Registered Nurse/Registered Psychiatric Nurse provides and coordinates person-centered, recovery-oriented psychiatric nursing care within an inpatient unit. Responsibilities include performing nursing assessments, crisis intervention, patient education, and collaborating with an interprofessional team to ensure high-quality clinical outcomes.

Job details

The Registered Nurse/Registered Psychiatric Nurse provides and coordinates person-centered, recovery-oriented psychiatric nursing care within an inpatient unit. Responsibilities include performing nursing assessments, crisis intervention, patient education, and collaborating with an interprofessional team to ensure high-quality clinical outcomes. Candidates must have graduated from an approved School of Nursing and hold current practicing registration as an RN or RPN with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives. Proficiency in mental health and substance use assessment, along with the ability to perform physical nursing duties, is required.

What you’ll do

The Registered Nurse/Registered Psychiatric Nurse provides and coordinates person-centered, recovery-oriented psychiatric nursing care within an inpatient unit. Responsibilities include performing nursing assessments, crisis intervention, patient education, and collaborating with an interprofessional team to ensure high-quality clinical outcomes.

Requirements

Candidates must have graduated from an approved School of Nursing and hold current practicing registration as an RN or RPN with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives. Proficiency in mental health and substance use assessment, along with the ability to perform physical nursing duties, is required.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits coverage

Listed skills

• crisis intervention · Preferred
• Group Facilitation · Preferred
• Documentation · Preferred
• Interprofessional Collaboration · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Psychiatric nursing
• Crisis intervention
• Nursing assessment
• Patient education
• Clinical leadership
• Evidence-based practice
• Mental health assessment
• Substance use treatment
• Psychopharmacology
• Counselling
• Group facilitation
• Interprofessional collaboration
• Patient advocacy
• Documentation
• Safety practices

Job areas

• Healthcare
• Social Services

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