Licensed Practical Nurse | Perioperative

Interior Health Authority; Kelowna; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A regional health authority in Kelowna is seeking a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to provide practical nursing services in a surgical environment. Responsibilities include assisting in operations, collaborating with surgical teams, and caring for patients. This is a casual opportunity with variable hours, primarily during weekdays.

Qualifications

• Registered as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN).
• Ability to assist in surgical environments.
• Experience in patient care, particularly in preoperative and postoperative settings.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical nursing services as part of a surgical team.
• Collaborate with surgical team members for effective interventions.
• Participate in all phases of client care during surgery.

Job description

About the Job

Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

• Provides practical nursing services in an operating room environment as a member of an integrated surgical team performing varied surgical interventions.
• Consults, confers, and collaborates with other members of the surgical team in facilitating safe and effective surgical interventions through the performance of scrubbing and circulating duties in accordance with established standards and protocols.
• Participates in pre-operative, operative, and post-operative activities such as assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating and documenting client care, and providing support to clients and their families.

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.

Shifts of work are days, Monday to Friday; shift time include 07 : 15 to 15 : 15 hours.

About this location / unit

Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) is a tertiary hospital with 400+ acute care beds and is the region’s main referral centre offering a full range of services. The Interior Heart & Surgical Centre (IHSC) is KGH’s principal surgical site and features 19 functioning OR theatres where two function per evening.

The Eye Center (Ophthalmology) provides perioperative care to the ophthalmology surgical services at KGH. This includes Pre and post op care and intraoperative care of the patients undergoing cataract surgery, retinal surgery, corneal transplants, lid surgery and strabismus surgery.