Health care
Licensed practical nurse (L.P.N.)
$32.84 to $41.35 hourly (to be negotiated)
Pay is above the B.C. median for this work ($34.57 an hour; Job Bank, 2023–2024)
What the posting asks for
- 1 to 2 years' experience
- College/CEGEP
- English
From the posting's details in Job Bank's open data. The full ad is on Job Bank.
Hours and terms
- 37.5 hours a week
- Shifts: days, nights
- Full time, Permanent employment
- In person
Usually needed for this kind of work
- Completion of a vocational, college or other approved program for licensed practical nurses is required.
- Registration with a regulatory body is required in all provinces and territories.
- Completion of a registration examination is required in all provinces and territories.
From Canada's occupation guide (OaSIS) for Licensed practical nurses (NOC 32101). It describes this kind of work in general, not this employer's ad.
What this work usually involves
- Provide nursing services, within defined scope of practice, to patients based on patient assessment and care planning procedures
- Perform nursing interventions such as taking vital signs, applying aseptic techniques including sterile dressing, ensuring infection control, monitoring nutritional intake and conducting specimen collection
- Administer medication and observe and document therapeutic effects
- Provide pre-operative and post-operative personal and comfort care
- Monitor established respiratory therapy and intravenous therapy
- Monitor patients' progress, evaluate and document effectiveness of nursing interventions and collaborate with appropriate members of health care team
About the employer
- Industry: Health care and social assistance
- Region: Nechako Region
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From Job Bank.