Registered Nurse; RN | Perioperative

Position Summary

Interior Health is seeking an experienced and dynamic Perioperative Registered Nurse to join our Operating Room team at the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops, BC. If Nursing is your passion and you are a reliable, flexible and motivated individual interested in working in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment, apply today!

Interior Health (IH) is committed to achieving a culturally diverse and inclusive workforce that is representative of the communities we serve, and where you are encouraged to bring your whole self to work. Well‑being and work life balance is promoted within the IH team, and our commitment to environmental sustainability supports our primary goal of increasing the health and well‑being of everybody in the Interior Health region from our employees to the population we serve.

• Employee & Family Assistance Program
• Employer paid training/education opportunities
• Generous Vacation Entitlement
• Employer Paid Health Benefits
• Municipal Pension Plan
• Shift Premiums
• Competitive wages

The Registered Nurse provides nursing care to OR patients, both by working independently and as a member of an interdisciplinary team.

Enhances quality of life for the patient and family; consults, confers, and collaborates with other health care providers.

Demonstrates continuous improvement and evidence based practice in nursing practice.

Maintains and advances own clinical competence.

Participates on designated hospital committees/teams and approved research projects as assigned.

This is a Casual opportunity. Casual employees are not guaranteed hours of work and can range from 0-37.5 hours per week on an as‑needed basis.

Royal Inland Hospital’s Operating Room Department has 9 theatres offering services that include:
General (MIS bowels, hernias, spleen, whipples), Trauma, Ortho Trauma, Obs/Gyne (LAVH), Urology (MIS Nephrectomy, Cystectomy, PCNL’s), Ortho (total joints, sports medicine), ENT, Neuro (Craniotomies, Spinal surgery), Vascular (AAA stents, Bypass grafts, pacemakers, wound management), Major Plastics, Dental, and Laser cases (Holmium, CO2, YAG). OR RNs are expected to work in all services. As a member of the RIH Operating Room team, you will have circulating and scrubbing duties while coordinating and overseeing the overall care of the patient.

Orientation to the OR is tailor made to the experience of the new staff member, with the average orientation being 12 weeks. Orientation is a week or two in each service depending on prior experience. We have Resource Nurses in all the specialties to ensure there is ongoing support and teaching for all staff members. In‑services are provided on a weekly basis.

Additional nurses involved with leadership of the department include the Manager, Clinical Operations OR, an Operation Room Educator and Equipment Coordinator. Library Services to support patient care, education and research are available. The OR department has moved into a beautiful new tower.

• Graduation from an approved School of Nursing with current practicing registration with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).
• Current CPR certification required.
• Advanced preparation in the clinical specialty of the assigned area (perioperative nursing) and one year recent related clinical experience in the assigned practice environment on an operating room similar in size and scope to the facility or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.