Original job description
Your Opportunity:
This is a front-line direct patient care position and includes heavy lifting, pushing, pulling, and transferring of patients including bariatric population.
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 organization's shared vision and values.
Classification: Licensed Practical Nurse Union: AUPE AUX Unit and Program: Unit 28, Surgery Primary Location: Sturgeon Community Hospital Location Details: As Per Location Multi-Site: Not Applicable FTE: 0.60 Posting End Date: 19-OCT-2026 Employee Class: Regular Part Time Date Available: 29-OCT-2026 Hours per Shift: 7.75 Length of Shift in weeks: 12 Shifts per cycle: 36 Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Nights, Weekends Days Off: As Per Rotation 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:
Must have a minimum of 2 years recent surgical experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Proficiency with PCA maintenance and IV initiation is an asset.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Provide direct patient care as part of an interprofessional health care team, using nursing processes, critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making skills. Deliver safe, high-quality, patient- and family-centred care in accordance with legislation, professional standards, and organizational policies and procedures.
Requirements
Applicants must complete an accredited practical nurse education program, hold or be eligible for an active Alberta LPN practice permit, and have current Basic Cardiac Life Support for Health Care Providers certification. A minimum of two years of recent surgical experience is required; proficiency in PCA maintenance and IV initiation is an asset.
Skills
- Direct Patient Care
- Nursing Processes
- Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Patient and Family-Centred Care
- Surgical Nursing
- Patient Lifting and Transfers
- Bariatric Patient Care
- PCA Maintenance
- IV Initiation
- Basic Cardiac Life Support
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Keywords
- Licensed Practical Nurse
- LPN
- Direct Patient Care
- Interprofessional Health Care Team
- Nursing Processes
- Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Patient-Centred Care
- Family-Centred Care
- Surgical Experience
- Patient Lifting
- Patient Transfers
- Bariatric Patients
- PCA Maintenance
- IV Initiation
- Basic Cardiac Life Support
- BCLS-HCP
- CLHA
- AUPE
