Introduction
The Primary Care Network (PCN) Registered Nurse (RN) Program, launched by the Vancouver Division of Family Practice in partnership with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), integrates RNs into family practices across Vancouver. These RNs play a vital role in team-based care, working alongside providers and allied health professionals to deliver timely, person-centred, continuous, and culturally safe care. By enhancing collaboration, expanding clinic capacity, and supporting coordinated care, PCN RNs are essential to stronger primary care. The Vancouver Division, a non-profit funded by the Government of BC and Doctors of BC, continues to partner with VCH to onboard RNs and engage clinics in this program.
Extended Information
The PCN RN Working Group
To achieve the RN program goals, the Division and VCH are committed to meaningful stakeholder engagement to enable informed decision making and positive coproduction.
To enable this, we launched the PCN RN Program Working Group in 2026, to shape program improvement based on the voices of those delivering it in Vancouver.
Through the PCN RN working group, we are gaining diverse perspectives from RNs, providers, and clinics. These insights are helping us to better align strategy and objectives to stakeholder priorities, foster a more inclusive approach, and deliver stronger outcomes that have been codesigned with the voices and reflections of those involved in the program. To find out what the PCN RN Working Group has achieved and delivered this year, read more here.
2027 Membership
We are opening membership to a few spots for the 2027 PCN RN Working Group!
What Will Your Role Involve?
- Bring insights, ideas and feedback to the PCN RN Working Group to help shape and improve the program.
- Share your perspectives and experience on PCN RN related topics and issues.
- Attend regular meetings and connect offline to help review provider, clinic and client facing documents.
- Share success stories and advise on engagement strategies.
- Suggest opportunities for program improvement and help develop strategies for the program to serve our local communities.
- Advocate for the role of the PCN RN in clinics and support provider engagement and understanding.
- Foster and pioneer a team-based care approach, collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team of healthcare professionals, other advisory groups and partners.
We’re Seeking RNs and Providers Who:
- Provide longitudinal primary care in the city of Vancouver.
- Are currently based at a Vancouver Primary Care Clinic with a co-located RN.
- Are driven to support Primary Health Care improvement, through integrated team-based and patient-centered care.
- Are comfortable collaborating with a diverse group of health care professionals bringing together a mix of perspectives and experiences.
- Works well with others in a professional, solution-focused, and consensus-driven environment to support shared decision making and meaningful improvement.
Members of the PCN RN Working Group will be expected to bring a spirit of collaboration, respect and understanding.
Click here to apply!
The deadline to apply is 00:00 on the 25th October. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to interviews in November.
To enable meaningful coproduction, all participants have an active role in shaping the working group through continuous feedback to support session planning and improvement. Find out what the 2026 members shared in the Mid-Year Evaluation!
Commitment:
Participants will be expected to contribute approximately 2-3 hours each month to attend regular meetings with the group and connect offline via email. Monthly sessions are held online via Zoom on the last Thursday of each month, 12:00-13:00. Participants will be expected to commit to 1 year, from January 2027 to December 2027.
Compensation:
Providers will be compensated at the standard sessional rate.
If you have any questions about the working group, please contact Mollie McCormick at mmccormick@vancouverdivision.com
If you are interested in being considered for the 2027 PCN RN Working Group, please fill out our form here.
Background Information
The Primary Care Network (PCN) Registered Nurse (RN) Program started as a partnership between the Vancouver Division of Family Practice and VCH to integrate RNs into existing family practices across Vancouver. The co-located PCN RN resource supports Team-Based-Care (TBC) through building part of an inter-disciplinary team of healthcare professionals with diverse skillsets and expertise who can provide coordinated and comprehensive care. The PCN RNs are an integral part of the success of the co-located teams they serve in ensuring that clients, families and caregivers have access to timely, person-centred, continuous and culturally safe quality health care.
The Vancouver Division in collaboration with VCH continue to onboard PCN RNs into primary care clinics, through engaging clinics and providers on the role, scope and benefits of PCN RNs, determining clinic interest and eligibility, and supporting onboarding workflow and processes. The program aims to support greater collaboration between providers and RNs, enabling TBC and expanding primary care capacity.
The Vancouver Division of Family Practice is a member-driven organization supporting primary care, working to create an engaged community and a collaborative healthcare system in Vancouver. The Division is a non-profit society funded by the Government of BC and Doctors of BC, and we work in partnership with the BC Ministry of Health, Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), Providence Health Care, and other community organizations.
A Primary Care Network (PCN) is a clinical network of providers in a geographic area where patients receive expanded, culturally safe, comprehensive care and improved access to team-based primary care. PCN networks include Registered Nurses (RN), Primary Care Providers, Allied Health Supports, as well as other services in the community.
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