Registered Nurse (RN) | Perioperative

Interior Health Authority; Kelowna; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee and Family Assistance Program

Employer paid training/education

Generous Vacation Entitlement

Employer Paid Health Benefits

Municipal Pension Plan

Shift Premiums

Competitive wages

Job summary

Interior Health is seeking an experienced Perioperative Registered Nurse to join our Operating Room team at Kelowna General Hospital in beautiful Kelowna, B.C.

This Relief Part Time (0.59) position includes day and night shifts (07:30–15:30, 23:00–07:00) and will support the OR with scrub duties and collaboration across the interdisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Scrub duties performed during surgical procedures.
• Interdisciplinary collaboration to plan and deliver patient care.

Responsibilities

• Performs scrub duties during surgeries; circulating duties as needed.
• Coordinates and oversees overall patient care with the care team.
• Delivers client-centered care in a high-acuity operating room environment.

Skills

Scrub duties

Circulating duties

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Nursing science knowledge

Job description

Interior Health is seeking an experienced and dynamic Perioperative Registered Nurse to join our Operating Room team at Kelowna General Hospital in beautiful Kelowna, B.C.

Who We Are

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.

What We Offer

We offer a range of employee benefits and services to support you at every stage of your career:

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

About The Job

The Registered Nurse:

• Practices in a variety of clinical settings and is responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of client care
• Works in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team
• Ensures the delivery of client–centered care by assisting individual clients and their families respond to changing health care needs
• Demonstrates a specialized body of knowledge and bases practice on nursing science and related content from other sciences and humanities

This is a Relief Part Time (0.59) opportunity until August 16, 2027, or return of the incumbent.

The shift rotation for this position includes days and nights, with shift times of 07:30 to 15:30, 23:00 to 07:00 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. Two OR theatres are dedicated to Cardiac Surgery and one Hybrid Room features a floor mounted fluro machine. Surgical procedures include: Cardiac, Ortho Trauma, Obs/Gyne, Pediatrics, Neurosurgery, General Surgery, Thoracic, Vascular, Orthopedics, Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery, ENT, Dental, and Urology.

As a member of the KGH Operating Room team, you will have primarily Scrub role duties (secondary Circulating duties based on experience) during surgical procedures and coordinate and oversee the overall care of the client. We are organized in team based clusters for services. Staffing consists of three nurses per room: 2 RNs: 1 LPN.

We are a team of Surgeons, Anaesthesiologists, Staff Anesthesia Assistants and Nursing staff who pride ourselves on being a supportive group delivering the highest quality of care in a complex high acuity environment.

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