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Job Details

Licensed Practical Nurse (L.P.N.)

Employer

Amaris Medical Centre

Date Posted

June 16, 2025

Languages

English
  • Location Stony Plain, AB
  • Earnings $30.00 to $40.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 30 to 44 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 1  Vacancy
  • Closing Date Aug 13, 2025
Job Requirements

Employer

Amaris Medical Centre

Languages

English

Education

College/CEGEP

Tasks

  • Administer medications
  • Apply aseptic techniques including sterile dressing
  • Conduct specimen collection
  • Ensure infection control
  • Observe and record medication's therapeutic and side effects
  • Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing operative areas
  • Record medication's therapeutic and side effects observations in patient files
  • Take vital signs
  • Provide technical assistance to surgeons by laying out instruments, setting up equipment, assisting surgical teams with gowns and gloves and passing instruments to surgeons
  • Clean and sterilize the operating room and instruments
  • Provide pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care
  • Monitor established respiratory therapy and intravenous therapy
  • Provide safety and health education to individuals and their families
  • Provide nursing services, within defined scope of practice, to patients based on patient assessment and care planning procedures
  • Monitor patients' progress, evaluate effectiveness of nursing interventions and consult with appropriate members of healthcare team
  • Transport patients in wheelchair or stretcher
  • Supervise patients' exercise routines
  • Serve meal trays and feed patients
  • Make beds and maintain patients' rooms
  • Maintain inventory of supplies
  • Bathe, dress and groom patients
  • Supply and empty bed pans
  • Weigh, lift, turn and position patients
  • Administer first aid in emergency situations
  • Deliver messages, reports, requisitions and specimens between departments
  • Perform other duties related to personal care
  • Assist with cleaning, sterilizing, setting up and assembling of medical equipment

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

  • Completion of the Canadian Practical Nurse Registration Examination
  • Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) Certificate
  • Certified Nurse in Critical Care - Canada (CNCC-C)

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Repetitive tasks
  • Physically demanding
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to distinguish between colours
  • Sound discrimination
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling

Personal suitability

  • Accurate
  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Initiative
  • Interpersonal awareness
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Patience

Experience

2 years to less than 3 years


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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Licensed Practical Nurse (L.P.N.) is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Licensed Practical Nurses
METHODICAL

Interest in compiling information by monitoring patients' progress and monitoring established respiratory and intravenous therapy; in evaluating effectiveness of nursing interventions; and in administering medication and observing and documenting therapeutic effects

SOCIAL

Interest in instructing patients and their families by providing safety and health education; in providing pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care; and in consulting with members of the healthcare team

OBJECTIVE

Interest in operating medical equipment to perform nursing interventions such as taking vital signs, applying aseptic techniques including sterile dressing, ensuring infection control, monitoring nutritional intake and conducting specimen collection

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation. 

It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.

Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.

A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.

A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.

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