Licensed Practical Nurse (Theatre Qualified) Royal Columbian Hospital

Job summary

The Licensed Practical Nurse provides practical nursing services in an operating room, collaborating with the surgical team to facilitate safe interventions. Responsibilities include performing scrub and circulating duties, assessing patient care, and documenting observations throughout the pre-operative, operative, and post-operative periods.

Job details

The Licensed Practical Nurse provides practical nursing services in an operating room, collaborating with the surgical team to facilitate safe interventions. Responsibilities include performing scrub and circulating duties, assessing patient care, and documenting observations throughout the pre-operative, operative, and post-operative periods. Candidates must have graduated from a recognized Practical Nurse program and an accredited Operating Room program, with at least one year of recent acute care experience. Current practicing registration with the BCCNM and basic cardiac life support certification are mandatory.

What you’ll do

The Licensed Practical Nurse provides practical nursing services in an operating room, collaborating with the surgical team to facilitate safe interventions. Responsibilities include performing scrub and circulating duties, assessing patient care, and documenting observations throughout the pre-operative, operative, and post-operative periods.

Requirements

Candidates must have graduated from a recognized Practical Nurse program and an accredited Operating Room program, with at least one year of recent acute care experience. Current practicing registration with the BCCNM and basic cardiac life support certification are mandatory.

Benefits

• Comprehensive employer-paid benefits
• Generous vacation time
• Benefit portability
• Defined municipal pension plan
• Maternity top-up
• TransLink pass subsidy
• Employee discounts

Listed skills

• Communication · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Practical nursing
• Operating room procedures
• Surgical intervention support
• Scrubbing
• Circulating duties
• Patient assessment
• Patient care documentation
• Basic cardiac life support
• Clinical collaboration
• Communication
• Work organization
• Equipment operation

Job areas

• Healthcare

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