Spotlight on ORNAC Members

AN INTERVIEW WITH JANE MCDONALD RN, BSCN, CPN(C).

Abstract

Jane McDonald RN, BScN, is Care Facilitator of Peri Operative Services at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) in Ottawa, ON. She has been a Perioperative Registered Nurse since 1984 after completing the Post-Graduate Perioperative course offered at the Hotel Dieu Hospital in Kingston, ON. She worked there until 1989 when she moved to Ottawa and worked at the Riverside Campus of the Ottawa Hospital until 2003. She then moved to CHEO as the Clinical Leader for the OR and then to her current role as the Care Facilitator of Perioperative Services. CHEO has eight ORs and services all departments (Orthopaedics, General Surgery, Urology, Plastics, ENT, Oral Surgery, Dentistry, Opthamology, Gastro-Intestinal, Cardiac, and Neurosurgery). In 1997 Jane wrote her CPN(C) she has renewed it four times since. She also obtained, while working full time, her BScN from Ottawa University in 2009. Jane has been active within her regional perioperative nursing association (ORORN) for many years and was recently the volunteer coordinator for the 2013 ORNAC National & International Conference with IFPN.