Registered Nurse – Teletriage, Calgary, Canada – Immigration Support Possible

Visa type confirmed: Immigration Support Possible

Your Opportunity:
The Health Link Team has an opportunity for an energetic, passionate, and experienced Registered Nurse looking for a change in how care is delivered. You will be utilizing your robust communication skills, extensive nursing knowledge, and diverse work background. An essential part of this provincial health team, you will be responsible for providing telephone triage services, offering health advice and information to callers across Alberta.

Health Link’s Mission:
Health Link’s mission is to deliver care and reliable advice, connecting individuals to the appropriate care provided by the right healthcare professional at the right location. Utilizing clinical software, diverse databases, and clinical protocols, you will evaluate, triage, and counsel patients dealing with diverse and often intricate concerns.

Key Responsibilities:
You will leverage your exceptional patient focus, clinical nursing expertise, and assessment skills to deliver high-quality and precise health advice and information within a contact care setting. As the successful candidate, you will apply your active listening, adept problem-solving, and ability to ask relevant questions to assist callers. Your analytical and critical thinking abilities will be crucial in determining the best care for Albertans. You will thrive in an engaging environment helping a diverse range of patients in a respectful and sensitive manner.

Benefits:
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance the health and well-being of our employees and their families, encompassing health, dental, vision, disability, and lifestyle considerations, among many other benefits. This position is part of Primary Care Alberta.

Description:
As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will provide various nursing services to patients, families, communities, and populations, while ensuring their safety and well-being. In your role, you will utilize nursing processes through critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making, while teaching, counseling, and advocating on behalf of patients and their families. You will also play a leadership role in supporting an integrated and holistic approach to patient care, health promotion, and maintenance.

Compensation:
Provisional Permit Holders shall be paid $39.58 /hour – $54.16/hour. Upon being entered into the register of Registered Nurses, the rate of pay shall be adjusted according to AHS/UNA Article 25.02(b)(i) or (ii) as applicable.

• Classification: Registered Nurse
• Union: United Nurses of Alberta
• Unit and Program: Health Link
• Primary Location: Southport Tower
• FTE: 0.75
• Temporary Employee Class: Temp P/T Benefits
• Minimum Salary: $43.26
• Maximum Salary: $59.21

Required Qualifications:
Completion of an accredited nursing education program. Active or eligible for registration and practice permit with the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA). Current Basic Cardiac Life Support – Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP). If you have not practiced as a Registered Nurse within the last five (5) years, completion of the following free courses is required: CRNA Medication Management – Chapters 1 – 4 and the NextGenU Health Assessment Resources Certification.

Additional Required Qualifications:
Qualified candidates will have a minimum of three (3-5 years) of recent experience as a Registered Nurse in a clinical setting, including experience in various clinical areas that require high levels of independent and advanced assessment skills, strong critical thinking, and excellent probing skills. Recent experience working with diverse client populations and clinical issues, including emergency, pediatrics, maternal/child, medical/surgical, and critical care, is necessary. You will also need the ability to deal with stress in a high call volume contact center and work comfortably with a variety of computer databases. A minimum typing speed of 35 WPM is required, along with intermediate computer skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
A Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing is preferred. Experience interacting with clients over the telephone is also preferred.

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