Registered Nurse,Surgical Services - Operating Room Job Burnaby area,BC Canada,Nursing

Salary The salary range for this position is 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.

Project Highlights

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. Services and specialties include 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 plastics specialties.

We are currently hiring for a Registered Nurse to join our Surgical Services - Operating Room team at Burnaby, B.C.

Benefits

Comprehensive 100% Employer-Paid Benefits: full coverage.
Generous Vacation Time: up to four weeks of vacation earned 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, the Registered Nurse (RN), O.R. provides direct nursing care to patients within the Operating Room according to established standards and administrative policies and procedures. Assesses patients physical and psycho-social needs; identifies problems, plans, implements, documents, evaluates and coordinates the nursing care of assigned patients and performs scrubbing and circulating duties.

Responsibilities

Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care of patients. Identify actual or potential problems, plan interventions, perform planned interventions and evaluate outcomes.

Receive and admit patients to the OR. Coordinate and provide nursing care to patients according to physician and anaesthetist orders and in conformance with established standards and hospital policies. Set priorities, assign and delegate tasks to appropriate staff.

Participate in identifying and reducing risk factors that may impact the patient and/or health care team. Act as an advocate to protect and promote the patient's right to autonomy, respect, privacy, dignity and access to information.

Modify care as needs change. Initiate immediate treatment, such as applying non-invasive monitoring devices if required.

Obtain, check, set up and position supplies, instruments and equipment required for surgery ensuring that instruments and equipment are in working order. Report instruments/equipment in need of repair.

Follow standardized count policy and provide appropriate documentation.

Perform scrub and circulation duties within the OR according to prescribed procedures and protocols.

Collect information from a variety of sources using skills of observation, communication and physical assessment to enable the provision of appropriate nursing care.

Participate in quality improvement activities and research by identifying patient care issues and collecting data.

Participate as an active member on nursing and hospital committees and councils for improvement of patient care and/or work environment.

Participate in the orientation and ongoing education of nursing staff and students by providing information and acting…

Registered Nurse, Surgical Services - Operating Room