Licensed Practical Nurse

Alberta Health Services (AHS) is looking for Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN) join our team! Working within a multidisciplinary team, the LPN plays a key role in support of an integrated holistic approach to the patient’s health care, health promotion and health maintenance. Nursing in a rural community will grow your skills and challenge your ability to balance varying levels of patient acuity and prioritize tasks. You will be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of safe quality care following the policies and guidelines of AHS. You will serve a diverse patient population with a continual focus on the core values of AHS - compassion, accountability, respect, excellence, and safety. You will display critical thinking and problem-solving skills in providing direct patient and family centred care to patients across the life span with a professional and positive attitude and excellent communication. Northern Alberta offers great benefits beyond your career - discover a different pace of life, meet new people, and find new recreational activities. Take advantage of the extra-long summer days and enjoy the outdoors: hiking, biking, and riding horseback or ATVs along kilometres of trails, fishing, swimming, or paddling along northern waterways, and winter sports, such as, skiing, skating, ice-fishing, or snowmobiling. From prairie grasslands to dense boreal forest, you’ll be immersed in communities with unique cultures that are all their own. Provisional Registration Practice Permit Holders, including New Graduates and Internationally Educated Nurses, are invited to apply.

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, demonstrated skill level and AHS policies and procedures. You will play a key role in providing safe, quality patient and family centered care while reflecting the shared vision and values of AHS.

Completion of an accredited practical nurse education program. Active or eligible for registration and practice permit with the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Alberta (CLPNA). Current Basic Cardiac Life Support - Health Care Provider (BCLS-HCP).

Experience in at least one of the following departments is required: acute care, emergency, intensive care, operating room, obstetrics, continuing care, and psychiatry and a willingness to learn new skills as required. Ability to work shift work and meet the physical demands of the job.

Certification(s) in a relevant specialty area, charge nurse experience, past leadership training/experience. Experience in more than one of the following departments is preferred: acute care, emergency, intensive care, operating room, obstetrics, continuing care, and psychiatry and a willingness to learn new skills as required.