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- Provides nursing care to OR patients, both by working independently and as a member of an interdisciplinary team
- Enhances quality of life for the patient and family; consults, confers, and collaborates with other health care providers
- Demonstrates continuous improvement and evidence based practice in nursing practice
- Maintains and advances own clinical competence
- Participates on designated hospital committees/teams and approved research projects as assigned
Registered Nurse - Vernon, Canada - Interior Health Authority
Description
About the Job:
The Registered Nurse:
Shifts of work will be scheduled days, evenings and nights; rotating from 07:30 to 16:00, 09:00 to 17:30, 14:00 to 22:30, 15:30 to 00:00, 00:00 to 07:30 hours.
About this location/unit:
VJH is a regional care facility where you will find five beautiful, large, totally integrated operative theatres.
The OR's are supported by the new Pre-Surgical Screening, Surgical Day Care area, ten monitored Recovery Bays and a new Medical Device Reprocessing area.
Four of the operating theatres provide the following services:general surgery, urology (laser), gynecology/obstetrics, ENT (laser), dental, and orthopedics/spinal. The fifth operating theatre opens several times a month to provide local cystoscopy services. In addition, there is a separate vision center with an operating theatre located in Armstrong that performs cataract surgery. There is a case cart delivery system and Vocera as a communication tool.
Perioperative records are online and the Alex Gold instrument tracking system was implemented and currently all joint prostheses are being bar coded.
Interior Health is an organization where you have room to grow and where life outside of work is just as important to us as it is to you.