Registered Nurse (Endoscopy) - Cairns Hospital

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service; Cairns Regional; On-site; AUD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service – Cairns Hospital invites applications for a Registered Nurse (Endoscopy) to join the Endoscopy Unit. You will be involved in patient admission, assisting procedures, monitoring sedation, and delivering post-procedure care in a multidisciplinary setting.

The role includes endoscope reprocessing and contributing to infection prevention and quality management.

Qualifications

• Assess, prepare, educate, and admit patients for endoscopic procedures.
• Assist with endoscopy procedures, sedation, and patient monitoring.
• Provide post-procedure recovery care, discharge education, and documentation.
• Endoscope reprocessing and contribute to infection prevention and quality management processes.

Responsibilities

• Assess, prepare, educate, and admit patients for endoscopic procedures.
• Assist with endoscopy procedures, sedation, and patient monitoring.
• Provide post-procedure recovery care, discharge education, and documentation.
• Undertake endoscope reprocessing and contribute to infection prevention and quality management processes.

Skills

Endoscopy nursing

Sedation monitoring

Infection prevention

Job description

Registered Nurse (Endoscopy) - Cairns Hospital

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service – Cairns QLD

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service provide an extensive range of health services at more than 30 regional, rural and remote facilities across a geographical area of 142,900 square kilometres.

The Health Service is 95 percent self-sufficient with only a small number of high- level acute services being provided in Townsville and Brisbane.

The Endoscopy Unit at Cairns Hospital is a purpose-built multidisciplinary unit operating three procedure rooms. It provides diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy as well as gastroenterology (GE) outpatient services, Manometry, Pillcam, Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) and Endoscopic Bronchial Ultrasound (EBUS).

The unit provides 24-hour emergency care. Cairns Hospital Endoscopy Unit is the leading unit in Australia for Endoscopist Directed Nurse Administered Propofol Sedation (EDNAPS).

This element sets the department to a high clinical standard, especially when developing nursing leaders within the department.

About your role

• Assess, prepare, educate, and admit patients for endoscopic procedures.
• Assist with endoscopy procedures, sedation, and patient monitoring.
• Provide post-procedure recovery care, discharge education, and documentation.
• Support specialised and high-risk procedures, including theatre-based cases.
• Undertake endoscope reprocessing and contribute to infection prevention and quality management processes.

For more information about this role, please refer to the attached Role Description.

Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD)

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What we offer

Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health service offer a number of workplace benefits. Besides attractive remuneration, generous superannuation, salary packaging and career development opportunities, we value a healthy work/life balance that allows you take advantage of the sunshine, hiking tracks, swimming spots, reef and rainforest.

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