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Licensed Practical Nurse (L.P.N.)
Employer
Amaris Medical CentreDate Posted
June 16, 2025Languages
English-
Location Stony Plain, AB
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Earnings $30.00 to $40.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
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Work Hours 30 to 44 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 1  Vacancy
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Closing Date Aug 13, 2025
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
- METHODICAL
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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
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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
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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
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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