Licensed Practical Nurse, Full Scope - Burnaby Hospital

Fraser Health•Burnaby, BC

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Join our collegial-spirited team at Burnaby Hospital as we build for the future of health care in Burnaby. The Burnaby Hospital redevelopment project is a multi-phase project that will transform the hospital into a modernized medical and surgical health care campus. Phase one is slated to open in spring 2025 and phase two in 2030. Highlights of the two-phase redevelopment project include: Expanded Emergency Department with additional treatment spaces, New health care pavilion with 83 beds to support maternity, neonatal intensive care, medicine, and mental health patients, New operating rooms, procedure rooms and recovery spaces, New acute care tower with 160 beds, New medical imaging department, New integrated BC Cancer Centre. Burnaby Hospital plays an essential role to those living in the community by delivering a variety of health care services. Services and specialties include emergency medicine, intermediate-level critical care, medical imaging, internal medicine, hospitalist medicine, geriatric medicine, neurology, gastroenterology, palliative, psychiatry, oncology, outpatient clinics, and an extensive surgery program with anesthesia, orthopedics, general surgery, ENT, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, urology, and plastics specialties. We are currently hiring for Casual Licensed Practical Nurses, Full Scope to join our 2D Palliative Complex Care Unit at Burnaby Hospital located in Burnaby, B.C. Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region. People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 50,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers. We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner. Together, we are the heart of health care.

Requirements

Graduate of a recognized practical nursing program or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Current practicing registration as a Licensed Practical Nurse with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).
Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Ability to deal with others effectively.
Ability to organize work and implement a plan of care.
Knowledge and competencies to work at full scope of practice as currently required by the BCCNM, including administering medications.
Ability to operate related equipment.
Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position.

Responsibilities

Assesses patient/resident/family's actual and potential strengths and limitations including physiological, psychological, socio-cultural, and spiritual needs.
Provides a supportive environment for patient/resident/family. Promotes patient/resident/family involvement in health care decisions; provides information and opportunity to discuss concerns; respects personal choices.
Contributes to the development and ongoing changes to the individualized plan of care, including attending and providing input into multidisciplinary care planning meetings and family conferences.
Provides nursing care according to identified policies and procedures, technology and FHA standards and evaluates outcomes. Records observations and reports problems and/or changes to designated staff.
Performs admissions, discharges, and transfers of patients/residents according to agency operating policies and procedures.
Documents and updates all relevant care and procedure information to ensure patient/resident safety and comfort.
Operates and maintains effective functioning equipment related to patient/resident care such as bathtubs, scales and mechanical lifts.
Assists in maintaining a safe and clean environment for patients/residents and staff.
Assists in the orientation of new staff, students and other members of the Health Care Team.
Participates in continuous quality improvement and program evaluation activities, education sessions, team conferences, meetings and committees.
Performs other related duties as assigned.