- 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 - Kelowna, Canada - Interior Health Authority
Description
About the Job:
The Registered Nurse:
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.
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.