Licensed Practical Nurse (Theatre Qualified)

Fraser Health; Burnaby; On-site; CAD 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health care provider in Burnaby is seeking a Licensed Practical Nurse to join their surgical team. This position involves providing practical nursing services in an operating room setting, participating in pre-operative and post-operative care, and collaborating with the healthcare team. Candidates require an accredited nursing program and registration with the BCCNM. The position offers competitive pay, extensive benefits, and opportunities for professional development, contributing to a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive employer-paid benefits

Generous vacation time

Pension enrollment from day one

Maternity leave top-up

TransLink pass subsidy

Qualifications

• Graduated from a recognized Practical Nurse program with full competencies.
• Current registration with BCCNM and basic cardiac life support certification.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement, evaluate, and document patient care.
• Perform scrub and circulating duties in the operating room.
• Alert RN to any changes in patient status.
• Document patient care during all surgical phases.
• Attend meetings and assist with staff orientation.

Skills

Effective communication

Dealing with others

Physical stamina

Work organization

Equipment operation

Education

Graduation from a recognized program for Practical Nurses

Graduation from an accredited operating room program

Job description

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $32.84 - $44.96 / 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.

Highlights of the two-phase redevelopment project include:

• 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 committed to staff wellness and planetary health and have active working groups to support these initiatives. In addition, we value career advancement and offer professional development and education opportunities.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, 100% Employer-Paid Benefits: Enjoy peace of mind with full coverage.
• Generous Vacation Time: eligible employees can earn up to four weeks of vacation to recharge and relax.
• Benefit Portability: Seamlessly transfer your benefits from another HEABC employer.
• Immediate Pension Enrollment: Secure your future with a defined municipal pension plan from day one.
• Maternity Top-Up: Receive an 87% top-up during maternity leave.
• TransLink Pass Subsidy: Save on commuting costs with a 50% subsidy on TransLink passes.
• Additional employee discounts and perks available.

Detailed Overview

The Licensed Practical Nurse (Theatre Qualified) provides practical nursing services in an operating room environment as a member of an integrated surgical team performing varied and complex surgical interventions. Consults, confers, and collaborates with other members of the surgical team in facilitating safe and effective surgical interventions through the performance of circulating duties, and scrubbing in accordance with established standards and protocols. This includes 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.

Responsibilities

1. Assess, plan, implement, evaluate, and document patient care during pre-operative, operative, and immediate post-operative periods.
2. Perform scrub duties, admission of patient to the operating room, and circulating duties in collaboration with the peri-operative team and the RN coordinating care in the operating room.
3. Assist the primary circulating RN in her role as requested by the RN coordinating care in the operating room.
4. Alert the RN to any problems, changes, or unusual signs or symptoms of the patient while in the operating room setting.
5. Document observations, treatment, and other patient care activities during pre, intra, and post-operative periods.
6. Attend staff meetings and quality improvement rounds to obtain information and feedback about patients and patient care.
7. Assist with orientation of new staff by demonstrating work procedures.
8. Attend educational sessions, in-services, and workshops as required to facilitate knowledge enhancement and technology changes.
9. Perform related clerical duties such as answering the telephone, taking and relaying messages, and assisting in maintaining standardized records.
10. Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Graduation from a recognized program for Practical Nurses with the full range of current licensed practical nursing competencies, and graduation from an accredited operating room program for Licensed Practical Nurses plus one (1) year recent related experience working as a Licensed Practical Nurse in acute care, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Current practicing registration as a Licensed Practical Nurse with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM). Current basic cardiac life support certification.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to deal with others effectively.
• Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.
• Ability to organize work.
• Ability to operate related equipment.

About Fraser Health

Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.

People – those we care for and those who care for them – are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 54,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the workforce. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.

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