Licensed Practical Nurse
- High River, AB, Canada
Classification: Licensed Practical Nurse Union: AUPE AUX Unit and Program: Emergency Primary Location: High River Location Details: As Per Location Multi-Site: Not Applicable FTE: 0.00 Posting End Date: 23-OCT-2026 Employee Class: Casual/Relief Date Available: 02-NOV-2026 Hours per Shift: 7.75 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 · Part-time
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- Classification: Licensed Practical Nurse Union: AUPE AUX Unit and Program: Emergency Primary Location: High River Location Details: As Per Location Multi-Site: Not Applicable FTE: 0.00 Posting End Date: 23-OCT-2026 Employee Class: Casual/Relief Date Available: 02-NOV-2026 Hours per Shift: 7.75 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
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- Part-time
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- Experience
- Acute Care Experience Greater than 2 years.
- Posting language
- English
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Your Opportunity:
High River Hospital supports the rural community located just south of Calgary. Hospital services include 24-hour Emergency Department, Surgical Services, Obstetrical Department, Cancer Care, and Medical Inpatients Unit. The Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) at the Emergency Department works as a member of the health care team, collaborating on the delivery of holistic, comprehensive care to meet the needs of the patients, families, & community. The LPN is responsible for assessment planning, implementation, and evolution of care delivered. You will provide a wide variety of nursing services while taking the necessary steps to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the population served. You will work to full scope in supporting an integrated approach to patient care, families, and health care team. You will demonstrate initiative and accountability and will seek out and accept direction as required. The ability to adapt quickly to changing and fluctuating workloads will be vital. To be successful, you will have good communication skills, strong critical thinking skills, problem-solving skills, strong decision-making abilities, and the ability to work independently and maintain effective interpersonal relationships. Being competent in relevant technical nursing skills and a willingness to learn with demonstrated ongoing responsibility for maintaining your continuing competence through professional development activities is a must. A commitment to professional development and promoting a positive work environment is valued. Being a preceptor and/or mentor for students and staff is an expectation.
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: Emergency Primary Location: High River Location Details: As Per Location Multi-Site: Not Applicable FTE: 0.00 Posting End Date: 23-OCT-2026 Employee Class: Casual/Relief Date Available: 02-NOV-2026 Hours per Shift: 7.75 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:
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS). N-95 Mask Fit Certification. Acute Care Experience Greater than 2 years. The LPN position has physical requirements such as the ability to tolerate constant walking, standing, kneeling, bending, reaching, and sustaining posture within a fast-paced unit requiring lifting, pushing, pulling of objects greater than 50lbs. The LPN will demonstrate AHS’s values when working at High River Hospital.
Preferred Qualifications:
Emergency experience greater than 6 months. Previous rural healthcare experience. Effective communication skills required, and self-initiated career growth. Demonstrated strength in working collaboratively with diverse cultural and marginalized populations with socio-economic diversities. Relevant additional education/certification in wound care, palliative care, NVCI, CTAS.
High River Hospital supports the rural community located just south of Calgary. Hospital services include 24-hour Emergency Department, Surgical Services, Obstetrical Department, Cancer Care, and Medical Inpatients Unit. The Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) at the Emergency Department works as a member of the health care team, collaborating on the delivery of holistic, comprehensive care to meet the needs of the patients, families, & community. The LPN is responsible for assessment planning, implementation, and evolution of care delivered. You will provide a wide variety of nursing services while taking the necessary steps to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the population served. You will work to full scope in supporting an integrated approach to patient care, families, and health care team. You will demonstrate initiative and accountability and will seek out and accept direction as required. The ability to adapt quickly to changing and fluctuating workloads will be vital. To be successful, you will have good communication skills, strong critical thinking skills, problem-solving skills, strong decision-making abilities, and the ability to work independently and maintain effective interpersonal relationships. Being competent in relevant technical nursing skills and a willingness to learn with demonstrated ongoing responsibility for maintaining your continuing competence through professional development activities is a must. A commitment to professional development and promoting a positive work environment is valued. Being a preceptor and/or mentor for students and staff is an expectation.
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: Emergency Primary Location: High River Location Details: As Per Location Multi-Site: Not Applicable FTE: 0.00 Posting End Date: 23-OCT-2026 Employee Class: Casual/Relief Date Available: 02-NOV-2026 Hours per Shift: 7.75 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:
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS). N-95 Mask Fit Certification. Acute Care Experience Greater than 2 years. The LPN position has physical requirements such as the ability to tolerate constant walking, standing, kneeling, bending, reaching, and sustaining posture within a fast-paced unit requiring lifting, pushing, pulling of objects greater than 50lbs. The LPN will demonstrate AHS’s values when working at High River Hospital.
Preferred Qualifications:
Emergency experience greater than 6 months. Previous rural healthcare experience. Effective communication skills required, and self-initiated career growth. Demonstrated strength in working collaboratively with diverse cultural and marginalized populations with socio-economic diversities. Relevant additional education/certification in wound care, palliative care, NVCI, CTAS.
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Responsibilities
Provide safe, comprehensive, patient- and family-centered nursing care in the Emergency Department, including assessment, care planning, implementation, and evaluation. Collaborate with the health care team, adapt to changing workloads, support students and staff through precepting or mentoring, and maintain professional competence.
Requirements
Requires completion of an accredited practical nursing program, active or eligible Alberta LPN registration and practice permit, current BCLS-HCP, ACLS, N-95 mask-fit certification, and more than two years of acute care experience. Candidates must be able to meet demanding physical requirements; more than six months of emergency experience and rural health care experience are preferred.
Skills
- Patient Assessment
- Care Planning
- Nursing Care Delivery
- Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Communication
- Interprofessional Collaboration
- Patient and Family-Centered Care
- Emergency Nursing
- Acute Care
- Precepting and Mentoring
- Adaptability
- Continuing Professional Development
- Wound Care
- Palliative Care
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Categories
- Healthcare
Keywords
- Licensed Practical Nurse
- Emergency Department
- Acute Care
- Rural Health Care
- Patient Assessment
- Care Planning
- Nursing Process
- Patient Safety
- Patient-Centered Care
- Family-Centered Care
- Interprofessional Health Care Team
- Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- BCLS-HCP
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- N-95 Mask Fit Certification
- College of LPNs and HCAs of Alberta
- Precepting
- Mentoring
- Wound Care
- Palliative Care
- NVCI
- CTAS
- Cultural Diversity
- Marginalized Populations