Description:
The Registered Nurse (RN), Surgical Services under the general direction of the Program Director, Program Coordinators, and Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL), provides obstetrical nursing care to women and their families in the surgical services unit. Performs surgical preparation/scrub/circulating/ post anaesthesia roles for obstetrical procedures. This role encompasses maternal and fetal assessment, patient support and specialized care/emergency care, teaching, counselling, and liaising with support services to promote maternal/fetal and newborn well being.
What You Will Do
- In collaboration with the woman, the primary care physician/midwife and other health care providers, perform surgical preparation/scrub/circulating/post anaesthesia roles for obstetrical procedures. Prepare the woman for the surgical procedure, start an intravenous and administer medication according to physician’s orders, complete the nursing admission form and transport the woman to the OR area prior to surgery.
- Coordinate the in-hospital experience in collaboration with the patient, her family and the physician/midwifery team. Refer the patient to additional support services as needed e.g. physiotherapy, social services, community services, and others.
- Create a therapeutic perinatal environment by providing patient/family teaching and counselling, with a focus on the surgical experience and early post-operative period as well as newborn care, parenting, health promotion, and perinatal loss when appropriate. Utilizes the nursing process and the RNABC Standards of Nursing Practice and ORNAC standards to provide nursing care.
- Provides emergency care for the surgical patient/fetus/newborn in crisis, while obtaining immediate assistance from the physician or nursing colleagues. This includes the CNL, PCE, Program Coordinator, and Anesthesiologist.
- Evaluate outcome of care on continuing basis by ongoing assessments. Provide and then modify the care plan accordingly. Act as a patient advocate.
- Promote quality assurance and risk management activities by participating in patient surveys.
- Participate by providing input and feedback in the development and revision of departmental and hospital policies in collaboration with the Program Coordinator, CNL, and Perinatal Clinical Educator (PCE).
- Provide guidance and/or direction by preceptoring new orientees or students and providing care to women and their families.
- Responsible for personal and professional development and provides a nursing perspective by attending multidisciplinary/nursing inservices, rounds, conferences, and committee meetings.
What You Bring
- Graduation from an approved School of Nursing with current practicing registration as an RN with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).
- Two years of recent perinatal nursing experience which includes 1 year in LDR or equivalent combination of experience and education.
- Certification/diploma OR/PAR course - e.g. BCIT, St. Paul’s.
- BC Women’s OR/PAR course.
- Fetal Health Assessment Certification (BC Women’s or equivalent).
- Current CPR /Newborn Resuscitation Certification.
- Breastfeeding update, minimum 6 hours in the last 2 years.
- Perinatal loss education, minimum 4 hours.
- Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the historic and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism and systemic racism on Indigenous Peoples within social and health contexts. This includes understanding how these factors contribute to current health disparities and barriers to care. Show a clear commitment to identifying, challenging, and eradicating Indigenous-specific racism and all forms of discrimination impacting equity-deserving groups within healthcare settings. This involves recognizing personal biases, institutional barriers, engaging in anti-racism education and training and advocating for systemic change.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments within BCW contexts found in the foundational documents including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study, BC Human Rights Code, Anti-racism Data Act and how they intersect across the health care system.