Registered Practical Nurse
- Trenton, ON, Canada
Pay reate: $35-$40/hr · Full-time
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- Pay
- Pay reate: $35-$40/hr
- Job type
- Full-time
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- Working hours
- 37.5 hours per week
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
About Calian
At Calian, we help organizations overcome obstacles, manage risks, and drive progress. Since 1982, we’ve grown from a small consulting firm into a trusted global company across defence, space, health, nuclear energy, public safety, and government.
We create innovative solutions that tackle complex challenges and help organizations and communities stay resilient, informed, and connected. If you’re driven by purpose and energized by solving real-world challenges, we want you on our team.
Job Type: Full Time
Calian is proud to continue a long-standing contractual relationship with the Department of National Defence (DND) to provide healthcare services to the Canadian Armed Forces. Through the Health Care Provider Contract, Calian employs health care professionals across Canada who are integral to supporting the health and wellbeing of our military members.
Position Overview
Calian is seeking a full-time Registered Practical Nurse to join the team at CFB Trenton. This is a rewarding position where you would make a difference in the lives of the men and women who serve our country and keep us safe.
The position is on a full-time, temporary basis, covering a short maternity leave until the end of the year. It requires 37.5 hours per week, with a standard schedule of 7.5 hours per day during clinic operational hours, Monday to Friday.
Responsibilities
Additional Requirements
At Calian, we do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to screen or evaluate candidates. AI tools may support backend administrative tasks, but they do not influence hiring decisions. All evaluations and decisions are made by real people on our recruitment team and hiring managers. All applicants are reviewed and only those chosen for an interview will be contacted by our recruiting team.
At Calian, we help organizations overcome obstacles, manage risks, and drive progress. Since 1982, we’ve grown from a small consulting firm into a trusted global company across defence, space, health, nuclear energy, public safety, and government.
We create innovative solutions that tackle complex challenges and help organizations and communities stay resilient, informed, and connected. If you’re driven by purpose and energized by solving real-world challenges, we want you on our team.
Job Type: Full Time
Calian is proud to continue a long-standing contractual relationship with the Department of National Defence (DND) to provide healthcare services to the Canadian Armed Forces. Through the Health Care Provider Contract, Calian employs health care professionals across Canada who are integral to supporting the health and wellbeing of our military members.
Position Overview
Calian is seeking a full-time Registered Practical Nurse to join the team at CFB Trenton. This is a rewarding position where you would make a difference in the lives of the men and women who serve our country and keep us safe.
The position is on a full-time, temporary basis, covering a short maternity leave until the end of the year. It requires 37.5 hours per week, with a standard schedule of 7.5 hours per day during clinic operational hours, Monday to Friday.
Responsibilities
- Perform triage assessments of patients during walk-in hours and patient assessments, which include medical or incident history, physical examinations, vitals signs measurement, and vision acuity testing
- Perform nursing interventions such as taking vital signs, applying aseptic techniques such as sterile dressing and ensuring infection control, and conducting specimen collection
- Developing a nursing care plan based on the result of the assessments, communicating any changes or abnormal findings of the patients’ condition or status, and referring to a physician or other health care provider as required
- Administering medications as per doctor’s orders and provincial scope pf practice while observing and documenting therapeutic effects, assist in treatments and procedures with physicians or other health care providers
- Perform therapeutic injections and wound care, administer and monitor established respiratory therapy and IV therapy, and prepare patients for minor surgery procedures
- Provide health education to patients including pre-operative and post-operative patient teaching such as clinical and procedural instructions and comfort care
- Perform administrative tasks such as written or telephone responses to patient queries, preparation of medical files for physicians or other health care providers, and return of the medical files to the health record department
- Monitor all medical supplies and inventory including ordering and replenishing
- Clean all patient care areas between patients, and clean, sterilize, and package surgical instruments
- Graduate from a Practical Nursing Program and licensed and in good standing as a Registered Practical Nurse with the College of Nurses of Ontario
- Current BLS for Heath Provider or CPR Level C Certification
- 1 year of full-time experience in the last 3 years in nursing practice conducting patient assessment and providing direct nursing care for a broad range of diseases in an adult population in a primary care setting or ambulatory care setting
Additional Requirements
- You must be able to obtain a Government of Canada Security Clearance (Enhanced Reliability)
At Calian, we do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to screen or evaluate candidates. AI tools may support backend administrative tasks, but they do not influence hiring decisions. All evaluations and decisions are made by real people on our recruitment team and hiring managers. All applicants are reviewed and only those chosen for an interview will be contacted by our recruiting team.
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Responsibilities
Conduct triage and patient assessments, provide nursing interventions and treatments, administer medications and therapies, and develop care plans while communicating changes or abnormal findings to other healthcare providers. Educate patients, maintain medical records and supplies, and clean patient care areas and sterilize instruments.
Requirements
Applicants must graduate from a Practical Nursing Program and hold an active license in good standing as a Registered Practical Nurse with the College of Nurses of Ontario, along with current BLS for Health Provider or CPR Level C certification. They must have at least one year of full-time nursing experience within the last three years in primary or ambulatory care with adult patients, and be able to obtain Government of Canada Enhanced Reliability security clearance.
Skills
- Patient Triage
- Patient Assessment
- Vital Signs Measurement
- Vision Acuity Testing
- Aseptic Technique
- Infection Control
- Specimen Collection
- Nursing Care Planning
- Medication Administration
- Therapeutic Injections
- Wound Care
- Respiratory Therapy
- Intravenous Therapy
- Patient Education
- Medical Records Management
- Inventory Management
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- Healthcare
- Government & Public Sector
Keywords
- Registered Practical Nurse
- Practical Nursing Program
- College of Nurses of Ontario
- BLS for Health Provider
- CPR Level C
- Patient Triage
- Patient Assessment
- Primary Care
- Ambulatory Care
- Adult Population
- Vital Signs
- Vision Acuity Testing
- Aseptic Technique
- Infection Control
- Specimen Collection
- Nursing Care Plan
- Medication Administration
- Therapeutic Injections
- Wound Care
- Respiratory Therapy
- Intravenous Therapy
- Patient Education
- Medical Records
- Medical Supplies
- Sterilization
- Enhanced Reliability Security Clearance