Job Description / Duties

Your Role
The Registered Nurse will work collaboratively within the Clinical Operations Department with the total Practice to provide timely, proficient services for all patients. The Registered Nurse is the primary contact and accountable for how a patient's cycle progresses.

Job Responsibilities
• Coordinate care for women and their partners receiving treatment in the department's various programs (e.g. IVF, Sperm Wash, Ovum Donation, Oncology Banking, etc.).
• Daily communication with the interprofessional team such as physicians, embryologist, andrologists, secretarial and phlebotomist.
• Assists Physician in minimal sedation for procedures.
• Assists physicians with ultrasounds, procedures, exams as needed.
• IV insertion, phlebotomy as necessary.
• Provide patient education in one-on-one sessions.
• Assist and/or perform various procedures in the clinic and procedure room setting such as IUIs.
• Provides patient/couple counseling, IVF procedure education, and scheduling of treatment/coordination of treatment cycles after initial and follow up visits. This is not a requirement until extensive training has been complete.
• Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Support women and families through the various ethical decisions that may be required as they explore various treatment options.
• Provide emotional support and grief counselling to women and families who are not successful in achieving pregnancy.
• Participate in professional development, quality improvement and safety activities within the program.
• Maintains privacy & confidentiality.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications / Required Skills

Education and Experience
• Current certificate of Registration, Saskatchewan Registered Nurses Association
• Minimum 3 years of experience as an RN
• Experience in fertility and/or gynecology an asset
• BScN preferred.
• Current BCLS mandatory and ACLS preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Demonstrates critical thinking, problem solving and decision making
• Excellent computer skills, comfortable with working with an EMR
• Venipuncture and Intravenous ability
• Ability to work independently to manage a caseload of patients
• Able to work effectively in a team to provide excellent patient
care
• Demonstration of good attendance and work performance
• Comfortable in working with LGBTQI2 patients
• Committed to patient centered care
• Demonstrated ability to respond to emergency situations.

Contact Information

Terry Tracey
Human Resources Business Partner
The Fertility Partners
terry.tracey@thefertilitypartners.com

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About Us
Aurora Reproductive Care is a state-of-the-art fertility clinic located in the River Landing area (River Centre I) in heart of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. As the province’s only comprehensive reproductive health care facility, our mission is to provide the highest quality, compassionate reproductive health care possible in a comfortable, welcoming, and inclusive environment.