Original job description
Your Opportunity:
This is a temporary position. The incumbent may return earlier or later than expected.
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 42 Primary Location: Peter Lougheed Centre Location Details: As Per Location Multi-Site: Not Applicable FTE: 1.00 Posting End Date: 20-NOV-2026 Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits Date Available: 30-NOV-2026 Temporary End Date: 22-NOV-2027 Hours per Shift: 11.08 Length of Shift in weeks: 12 Shifts per cycle: 42 Shift Pattern: Days, 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:
As Required.
Preferred Qualifications:
Medical Inpatient Experience. Complex Geriatric Patient Experience. Completion of Education including - It's Your Move, Required Organizational Learning, CVAD, TPN, Wound Vac, Pinel Restraints. N95 Fit Test. NVCI/See The Person course. Connect Care Training. Unit 42 Experience.
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Responsibilities
Provide safe, high-quality, patient- and family-centred nursing care as part of an interprofessional health care team. Apply nursing processes, critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making in accordance with education, experience, legislation, professional standards, and organizational policies.
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. Preferred qualifications include medical inpatient and complex geriatric experience, relevant clinical training, N95 fit testing, nonviolent crisis intervention training, Connect Care training, and Unit 42 experience.
Skills
- Nursing Processes
- Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Patient-Centred Care
- Family-Centred Care
- Medical Inpatient Care
- Geriatric Care
- Cardiac Life Support
- Central Venous Access Device Care
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
- Wound Vacuum Care
- Restraint Management
- N95 Fit Testing
- Nonviolent Crisis Intervention
- Connect Care
Visa sponsorship
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Keywords
- Licensed Practical Nurse
- Interprofessional Health Care Team
- Nursing Processes
- Critical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Patient-Centred Care
- Family-Centred Care
- Medical Inpatient Experience
- Complex Geriatric Care
- Basic Cardiac Life Support
- BCLS-HCP
- College of LPNs and HCAs of Alberta
- Practical Nurse Education
- It's Your Move
- Required Organizational Learning
- Central Venous Access Device
- Total Parenteral Nutrition
- Wound Vacuum
- Pinel Restraints
- N95 Fit Test
- Nonviolent Crisis Intervention
- See The Person Course
- Connect Care
- Unit 42
