Job Description

Your Opportunity:

Set dramatically between prairies and peaks, Calgary is a chic urban landscape surrounded by natural grandeur. It\'s a place where you can savor the Rocky Mountain wilderness by day and world-class cuisine and entertainment by night, a place buzzing with entrepreneurial energy while embracing its rich Western heritage. The Peter Lougheed Centre (PLC) is an acute care hospital offering both inpatient and outpatient services with over 600 inpatient beds, including Medical, Surgical, Pediatrics, Women\'s Health, and Critical Care. The PLC is often the busiest Emergency Department in the province and the quaternary Vascular Centre for Southern Alberta, Southwestern Saskatchewan, and Southeastern British Columbia. PLC Diagnostic Imaging (DI) is an interdisciplinary team that provides people-centered care with an emphasis on working together. The PLC DI Team takes pride in our high-quality service to the City of Calgary and the surrounding area and in all we do for our patients, colleagues, and community. As a PLC DI LPN, you will have the unique opportunity of working together with a team of high-performing Technologists, Radiologists and RNs supporting established workflows managing Inpatient, Outpatient, and Emergency patient examinations. The role will entail obtaining patient history, applying screening criteria, starting IVs, regulating patient movement throughout the department, assisting with patient positioning and transfers, and much more. We are looking for a proven self-starter willing to navigate and help define the opportunity and apply critical nursing skills. Success in this role will be determined by an individual with a strong work ethic and superb communication across a multidisciplinary team. If you are a skillful phlebotomist, this is your opportunity to shine.

Description:

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.

• Classification: Licensed Practical Nurse
• Union: AUPE AUX
• Unit and Program: PLC DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING ULTRASOUND
• Primary Location: Peter Lougheed Centre
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi-Site: Not Applicable
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 21-SEP-2023
• Employee Class: Regular Full Time
• Date Available: 01-OCT-2023
• Hours per Shift: 7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks: 2
• Shifts per cycle: 10
• Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings
• Days Off: As Per Rotation
• Minimum Salary: $27.58
• Maximum Salary: $36.13
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Required Qualifications:

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). Additional Required Qualifications:

Recent Experience as an LPN in an Urgent or Acute Care setting (2 years). Direct IV push medication administration. Skilled in IV Sedation Administration and subsequent monitoring of patient. Experience in Invasive Interventional Procedures (Chest Tube insertions, Biopsies, Abscess drains, Paracentesis, Thoracentesis). Management of x-ray contrast allergies Preferred Qualifications:

Diagnostic Imaging experience (2 years). ACLS certification. N95 Fit Test. Completion of It\'s Your Move training. Experience with electronic documentation using Connect Care.

Please note:

All postings close at 23:59 MT of the posting end date indicated.

Security Screening:

A satisfactory criminal record check and/or Vulnerable Sector Search is required prior to your first day of work. Additionally, all employees have an ongoing duty to disclose any charges or convictions that may occur during their employment with AHS.

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