registered practical nurse - St. Catharines, Canada - Dynamic Endoscopy & Speciality Care

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    • Education: College/CEGEP
    • Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
    • Work setting

    • Hospital/medical facility or clinic
    • Tasks

    • Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
    • Administer medication and observe and document therapeutic effects
    • Provide technical assistance to surgeons by laying out instruments, setting up equipment, assisting surgical teams with gowns and gloves and passing instruments to surgeons
    • Take vital signs, apply aseptic techniques including sterile dressing, ensure infection control, monitore nutritional intake and conduct specimen collection
    • Clean and sterilize the operating room and instruments
    • Provide pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care
    • Monitor established respiratory therapy and intravenous therapy
    • Provide safety and health education to individuals and their families
    • Provide nursing services, within defined scope of practice, to patients based on patient assessment and care planning procedures
    • Monitor patients' progress, evaluate effectiveness of nursing interventions and consult with appropriate members of healthcare team
    • Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

    • Licensure as a Registered Psychiatric Nurse by provincial authorities
    • Work conditions and physical capabilities

    • Attention to detail
    • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
    • Health benefits

    • Health care plan
    • Work Term: Permanent
    • Work Language: English
    • Hours: 37.5 hours per week