Fertility Nurse

Job Responsibility:

Position Title: Fertility Nurse

Work Site/Location: Blossom Fertility & Medical Clinic

Employment Status: Maternity Relief (10-25 hours a week)

Days of Work: Monday to Friday 9am-2pm

Start Date: June/July (TBD)

Duration: Maternity Relief (One year with potential for long term position)

Wage: Dependent on Experience

: Common, day-to-day tasks of the reproductive/fertility nurse include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Provides and co-ordinates prenatal and fertility nursing care to clients
• Assisting clients in a non-judgmental way through the infertility treatment process
• Educating clients and their loved ones on medical terminology, procedures, and the available treatment options
• Acting as a liaison between clients, their families, physicians, and specialists
• Offering emotional support to clients and their loved ones
• Counseling couples and donors throughout the process
• Teaching medication administration to clients/their families
• Administering In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) medications
• Assisting clients through the process of finding sperm donors
• Performing IUI wash and procedures
• Coordinating scheduling of fertility treatments between clients/their partners, physicians and the medical team
• Assisting with prenatal appointments or pre-procedural physicals
• Initiating IV infusions
• Blood draws
• Speculum exams for IUI's and Pap tests

Qualifications:

RN (BSCN Degree)

Current Registration with BC College of Nursing Professionals as a practicing RN registrant

Current Basic Life Support (BLS) or CPR-C

Related experience in Maternity/Labour and Delivery or equivalent training/education and/or experience

Skills and Abilities:

• Empathy
• Sensitivity
• Compassion
• Reliability
• Flexibility
• Excellent interpersonal communication abilities
• Willingness to learn
• Computer proficient
• Able to deal with stressful and often emotionally heavy situations
• Ability to work well within an interdisciplinary team
• Ability to complete initial and ongoing client assessments
• Ability to give injectable medications/teaching
• Ability to start IV and run IV infusions

Job Type: Fixed term contractContract length: 12 months

Pay: $50.00-$62.00 per hour

Expected hours: 10 - 25 per week

Benefits:

• Paid time off

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person