Original job description
Your Opportunity:
Boyle Healthcare Centre is seeking a confident and independent Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to join its small hospital with a combined Emergency Room (ER) and acute care unit. This role delivers adaptable, patient-centered care across both settings, supporting ER operations with patient stabilization, triage assistance, and urgent care, while also managing acute care responsibilities such as assessments, medication administration, wound care, IV therapy (where permitted), and patient education. Working with limited resources, the LPN collaborates closely with the healthcare team, demonstrates strong clinical judgment, and adapts to changing patient volumes and acuity. Key competencies include recognizing patient deterioration, maintaining emergency certifications, ensuring continuity of care when the ER is closed, and upholding high standards in documentation, infection control, and patient safety. Boyle is located on Treaty 6 territory and the traditional lands of the Métis, and offers a welcoming, close-knit community and an excellent quality of life. Residents enjoy a peaceful small-town setting near Skeleton Lake, known for its sandy beaches and year-round recreation including fishing, boating, camping, quadding, and hunting. With a lower cost of living and more affordable housing than larger centres, Boyle supports a balanced lifestyle where colleagues quickly become neighbours and friends through local events and shared community spaces. While embracing the benefits of rural living, Boyle remains within a 1.5–2 hour drive from Edmonton, ensuring access to additional services, shopping, and urban amenities - making it an ideal location for those seeking both career satisfaction and a slower, more connected way of life. Additionally, this community qualifies for Student Loan Forgiveness.
Description:
As a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), you are part of an interprofessional health care team, utilizing nursing processes, critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making skills. You will be guided by your education, experience, and demonstrated skill level, in alignment with applicable legislation, standards of practice, policies, and procedures. You will play a key role in providing safe, high quality, patient and family centred care while reflecting the shared vision and values of the organization.
Classification: Licensed Practical Nurse Union: AUPE AUX Unit and Program: Acute; Emergency Primary Location: Boyle Health Centre Location Details: As Per Location Multi-Site: Not Applicable FTE: 0.00 Posting End Date: 16-OCT-2026 Employee Class: Casual/Relief Date Available: 26-OCT-2026 Hours per Shift: 7.75, 11.25, 11.08 Length of Shift in weeks: Varies Shifts per cycle: Varies Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Nights, Weekends Days Off: Other Minimum Salary: $33.16 Maximum Salary: $43.42 Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable
Required Qualifications:
Completion of an accredited practical nurse education program. Active or eligible for registration and a practice permit as a Licensed Practical Nurse with the College of LPNs and HCAs of Alberta (CLHA). Current Basic Cardiac Life Support - Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP).
Additional Required Qualifications:
There is limited staff at this site, and you will be required to work in multiple areas. The successful candidate will need at least two years of bedside nursing experience in emergency or critical care medicine within the last four years. The following current certifications are also required: Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) and Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS).
Preferred Qualifications:
Completion of Current certification: Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC), Emergency Nursing Provincial Education Program (ENPEP) oy Fundamentals of Rural Emergency Nursing (FERN). Training in Connect Care.
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Responsibilities
Provide adaptable, patient- and family-centered nursing care across the emergency room and acute care unit, including triage support, stabilization, assessments, medication administration, wound care, and patient education. Collaborate with the healthcare team, respond to changing patient needs, maintain continuity of care, and uphold documentation, infection-control, and patient-safety standards.
Requirements
Applicants must complete an accredited practical nursing program, hold or be eligible for an Alberta LPN practice permit, and have current BCLS-HCP certification. The role also requires at least two years of recent bedside nursing experience in emergency or critical care, plus current ACLS and CTAS certifications; TNCC, ENPEP or FERN, and Connect Care training are preferred.
Skills
- Patient Assessment
- Triage Assistance
- Patient Stabilization
- Emergency Care
- Acute Care
- Medication Administration
- Wound Care
- Intravenous Therapy
- Patient Education
- Clinical Judgment
- Continuity of Care
- Documentation
- Infection Control
- Patient Safety
- Interprofessional Collaboration
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Keywords
- Licensed Practical Nurse
- LPN
- Emergency Room
- Acute Care
- Patient-Centered Care
- Patient and Family-Centered Care
- Triage
- Patient Stabilization
- Nursing Assessment
- Medication Administration
- Wound Care
- Intravenous Therapy
- Patient Education
- Clinical Judgment
- BCLS-HCP
- ACLS
- CTAS
- TNCC
- ENPEP
- FERN
- Connect Care
- Infection Control
- Patient Safety
- Continuity of Care
- Interprofessional Healthcare Team
