Licensed Practical Nurse (Theatre Qualified) - Burnaby Hospital

Detailed Overview

The Licensed Practical Nurse (Theatre Qualified) provides practical nursing services in an operating room environment as a member of an integrated surgical team performing varied and complex surgical interventions. Consults, confers, and collaborates with other members of the surgical team in facilitating safe and effective surgical interventions through the performance of circulating duties, and scrubbing in accordance with established standards and protocols. This includes pre-operative, operative, and post-operative activities such as assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating and documenting client care, and providing support to clients and their families. Responsibilities Assesses, plans, implements, evaluates and documents patient care during the pre-operative, operative and immediate post-operative periods. Performs scrub duties, admission of patient to the OR and circulating duties, in collaboration with the peri-operative team and the ...