Registered Practical Nurse

Job summary

The Registered Practical Nurse provides peri-operative nursing care to adult, pediatric, and neonatal surgical patients. They work within a multidisciplinary team to ensure high-quality care in a complex, fast-paced surgical environment.

Job details

Unit Summary The Operating Room at McMaster provides care to a high volume, critical/acute, adult, pediatric and neonate surgical population. The multidisciplinary team functions within a complex, fast-paced environment. Position Summary The Registered Practical Nurse participates in providing peri-operative nursing care in accordance with the job description and competencies for Registered Practical Nurses in the Operating Room at Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation. Schedule Work Hours days, evenings, nights, weekends, holidays 1. Current Certificate of Registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario as a Registered Practical Nurse 2. Graduate of an approved Operating Room Technician program 3. Current Certificates in Medication Administration, Enteral Nutrition Via Gastrostomy Tube, Urinary Bladder Catheterization, Transcription of Physicians Orders, Advanced Wound Care and Airway Management, or has completed equivalent community college studies 4. Current Heart and Stroke Foundation course in CPR or equivalent 5. Recent (2 years) relevant Operating Room experience in a tertiary care facility - adult and pediatric 6. Demonstrated interpersonal, communication and teamwork skills 7. Demonstrates commitment to the principles of professional practice 8. Demonstrates judgment in carrying out his or her role or function and is responsible and accountable for acting on the interpretation of data 9. Demonstrates critical-thinking and decision-making in assessment and problem identifications 10. Demonstrates ongoing personal professional education and development

What you’ll do

The Registered Practical Nurse provides peri-operative nursing care to adult, pediatric, and neonatal surgical patients. They work within a multidisciplinary team to ensure high-quality care in a complex, fast-paced surgical environment.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a current Certificate of Registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario and have graduated from an approved Operating Room Technician program. At least two years of recent relevant Operating Room experience in a tertiary care facility is required.

Listed skills

• Teamwork · Preferred
• assessment · Preferred
• CPR · Preferred
• interpersonal skills · Preferred
• Decision Making · Preferred
• Communication · Preferred
• Critical Thinking · Preferred

Other relevant skills

Identified from the job description. Confirm important requirements above.

• Peri-operative nursing
• Medication administration
• Enteral nutrition
• Urinary bladder catheterization
• Transcription of physicians orders
• Advanced wound care
• Airway management
• CPR
• Critical thinking
• Decision-making
• Interpersonal skills
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Assessment
• Problem identification
• Decision Making
• Interpersonal Communications
• Critical Thinking
• Nursing Care
• Pediatrics
• Bladder Cancer
• Medication Administration
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Airway Management
• Urology
• Operating Room (OR)
• Transcribing
• Wound Care
• Health Sciences
• Gastrostomy
• Enteral Nutrition

Job areas

• Healthcare
• Registered Practical Nurse
• Registered Nurse (General)
• Nursing Professionals
• Registered Nurses