Licensed Practical Nurse (Theatre Qualified) - Burnaby Hospital

Fraser Health Authority; Burnaby; On-site; CAD 45,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-Paid Benefits

Four weeks vacation

Benefit Portability

Pension Enrollment

Maternity Top-Up 87%

TransLink Subsidy 50%

Employee Discounts

Job summary

Fraser Health Authority in Burnaby is recruiting a Theatre‑qualified Licensed Practical Nurse to join the operating room team at Burnaby Hospital. You will provide practical nursing care across pre-, intra-, and post-operative stages, supporting the surgical team in a dynamic OR environment.

We seek a registered LPN with OR program training and recent acute care experience, plus BCCNM registration and basic life support.

Qualifications

• Must have LPN registration with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).
• Current Basic Life Support (BCLS) certification.

Responsibilities

• Assesses, plans, implements and documents patient care in pre-operative, intra-operative and immediate post-operative periods.
• Performs scrub and circulating duties in the OR in collaboration with the peri-operative team.
• Assists the RN in coordinating care and communicates any changes or concerns.

Skills

Verbal & Written

Communication

Teamwork

Physical Ability

Organization

Equipment Operation

Education

LPN with OR program

Job description

Salary

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

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 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.

Experience The Exceptional Benefits Of Working With Us Including

• 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
• Eligibility based on employment status

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

• Assesses, plans, implements, evaluates and documents patient care during the pre-operative, operative and immediate post-operative periods.

• Performs scrub duties, admission of patient to the OR and circulating duties, in collaboration with the peri-operative team and the RN coordinating care in the O.R.
• As an assistant to and upon request of the RN coordinating care in the operating room, performs duties which assist the primary circulating RN in her role.
• Alerts the RN to any problems, changes or unusual signs or symptoms of the patient while in the operating room setting.
• Documents observations, treatment and other patient care activities during the pre, intra and post-operative periods by performing duties such as recording observations/information onto patient record.
• Attends a variety of meetings such as staff meetings and quality improvement rounds to provide and obtain information and feedback about patients and patient care.
• Assists with orientation of new staff by performing duties such as demonstrating work procedures.
• Attends educational sessions, in-services and workshops as required to facilitate knowledge enhancement and technology changes.
• Performs related clerical duties such as answering the telephone, taking and relaying messages and assisting in maintaining standardized records.
• Performs 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 O.R. 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 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.

We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. 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.

Together, we are the heart of health care.