Registered Practical Nurse

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Reporting to the Manager, OR you will assist in preparing operating rooms for surgery. Responsibilities will include having surgical instruments, sterile supplies and linens, needed fluids, and other equipment ready. Scrub nurse role incorporating pre-operative, intraoperative and post-operative duties with regard to the booked surgical procedures, assisting physicians with instruments, counting sponges and needles before and after the operation. Limited circulating duties during more predictable cases to include: charting, room preparation, specimen processing, and transfer of patients to Recovery.

QUALIFICATIONS:
* Current certification with the College of Nurses of Ontario as a Registered Practical Nurse;
* Registered Practical Nurse Diploma from an accredited community college;
* Current BCLS certification;
* Postgraduate certificate in R.P.N. Operating Room Nursing;
* Evidence of continuing educatio...