Nursing is an honoured and rewarding profession that is founded on both the art of caring and the science of health and illness management.
Nurses are an integral part of PHSA’s team of health care professionals who work collaboratively to deliver health services through our inpatient, ambulatory care and outreach programs to patients from across B.C. We offer a multitude of options for those who are interested in a career in nursing, including a variety of innovative job opportunities in clinical practice, education, research, professional leadership and operational management.
As a nurse with BC Children's Hospital, you will have the opportunity to consolidate your skills in a variety of specialized clinical practice areas. You will care for some of the most seriously ill or injured children and youth from across B.C., or you may provide child development and rehabilitation care at Sunny Hill Health Centre for children. As an academic health centre, BC Children's Hospital offers vast opportunities for professional development, so you can continue to grow your nursing career in an area of specialization or in clinical education or leadership.
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The Medical Day Unit provides a safe, effective and family-centred environment for children and youth requiring medical treatments, diagnostic tests, procedures, assessments, education and consultations.
Nurses have the opportunity to treat children with complex chronic illnesses such as Crohn's disease, liver disease and other gastrointestinal diseases, lupus, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and other rheumatologic diseases, brittle bone disease, kidney disease, biochemical diseases, and enzyme deficiencies. Nurses also treat immune-compromised patients with immune globulin infusions.
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-centred and trauma-informed care are two guiding principles on the NRT.
The NRT is supported throughout their shift both by their own leaders and the unit-based leaders. At all times, the team maintains a family-centred approach to meet the needs of the patient.
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