The Medical Inpatient Unit is a 48-bed unit that provides care to infants, children and adolescents who require medical care for general pediatric conditions. These may include metabolic, respiratory, nephrology, endocrine and mental health diagnoses. Nurses have the opportunity to care for patients who require both short term and long-term admissions as well as repeat admissions. As a clinical teaching site, the Medical Inpatient Unit hosts a wide variety of learners, including nurses, physicians, and allied health team members.

Surgical inpatient units offer a wide range of services for children recovering from surgery, including neurosciences and cardiac surgery. 

Children in the inpatient unit receive treatment for seizures, epilepsy, cranial surgeries, including tumour resections, spinal surgeries, head injuries, Guillain-Barré syndrome, Myasthenia Gravis, as well as postoperative care as they recover from the different surgical services. OR nurses provide services including general surgery, orthopedics, urology, plastic surgery, gynecology, ophthalmology, ENT (ear, nose and throat), dental, cardiac and cardio-thoracic surgery. 

The Burn Program is also situated in this area, where specialists offer expert burn care and pain management for children and youth.

The Oncology/Hematology/Bone Marrow Transplant (Onc/Hem/BMT) Inpatient Unit is a 27-bed unit that provides care to infants, children and adolescents who require medical care for childhood cancers, complex blood disorders, and blood and marrow transplant. As the provincial referral centre for childhood cancer and hematologic care, nurses have the opportunity to care for patients who are undergoing the latest innovative and supportive treatments. As a clinical teaching site, the Onc/Hem/BMT unit hosts a wide variety of learners, including nurses, physicians, and allied health team members.

BC Children's Hospital's Operating Rooms are the only dedicated Pediatric Operating rooms in British Columbia. The Operating Rooms include a wide number of specialty services, including a Cardiac Nursing Team and a Spine Team. Our 24-hour operating room provides the best possible surgical care to all children in British Columbia, as well as children from other provinces and territories in Western Canada. Operating Rooms are open Monday to Friday, and most nurses work from 0730 – 1545, with smaller evening and night shift teams providing coverage from 1530 onwards. 24-hour coverage is provided seven days a week. Services we provide include: trauma surgery, scoliosis surgery, a cardiac program featuring a heart transplant program, ENT, dental, orthopedic, plastics, neurosurgery, pediatric surgery, urology, gynecology, and ophthalmology.

The Anesthetic Care Unit provides pre-operative preparation and post-operative care for up to 50 patients per day, Monday to Friday, as well as on-call coverage overnight for children who need emergency care. This fast-paced and challenging unit is staffed by highly skilled nurses who take a family-centered approach to providing care through all phases of the patient journey. Nurses care for patients in the pre-assessment phase of care, pre-operatively on the day of surgery, and through all phases of post-anesthetic care. Patients range in age from neonates to adolescents requiring an anesthetic in order to have a procedure. While the majority of patients are treated and go home on the same day, the unit also provides care for our admit-day-of-surgery patients.

The Emergency Department (ED) at BC Children's Hospital  provides clinical care for sick and/or injured children from all areas of the province of British Columbia.  Approximately 50,000 children, from birth to 16 years old, present to the BC Children's Hospital ED annually. These presentations include illness and injury across the entire acuity spectrum from non-urgent to emergent and include all medical and surgical sub-specialty presentations, including Mental Health. BC Children's Hospital ED is a provincial referral center and the tertiary care Level 1 Trauma Centre, providing Tier 6 (Level 1) subspecialty pediatric trauma services for the province. All patients are triaged according to the Canadian Acuity Triage Scale which determines their level of urgency requiring medical care.

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BC Children’s Hospital’s Mental Health services are for children and youth who are experiencing severe mental and emotional distress or serious psychiatric symptoms. Outpatient treatment is provided for patients not admitted into the hospital. The nurses and social workers within our specialty clinics see children and youth with a variety of mental health disorders, providing treatment during daytime hours on weekdays. Inpatient treatment is provided for patients admitted to the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Emergency (CAPE) unit, Child Psychiatry unit, Adolescent Psychiatry unit, or Eating Disorders unit.

BC Children's Hospital's Medical Imaging provides a complete range of primary and tertiary diagnostic imaging and image-guided diagnostic and therapeutic services to children and adolescents from across the province. Our team has experience with the radiological management of unusual, complex or therapeutically demanding problems in infants and adolescents. These services include general radiography (X-Ray), Computed Tomography (CT scan), Ultrasound, Nuclear Medicine scans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Vascular and Interventional procedures and cardiac imaging. These procedures help patients in all areas of the hospital and clinics. 

The Nursing Resource Team (NRT) is a dynamic group of 60 RNs who provide care in several areas throughout BC Children's Hospital. This is a pool of RNs who pride themselves on being flexible, adaptable and having a wealth of general pediatric knowledge to meet the needs of the organization. Family-centered and trauma-informed care are two guiding principles on the NRT. The NRT are supported throughout their shift both by their own leaders and the unit-based leaders. At all times, a family-centered approach is maintained to meet the needs of the patient.‎