About the Job :

This position, in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, performs assessments, plans, implements and provides personal and nursing care to clients such as wound care, IV, catheter care and pleurex drains. The Community LPN administers oral, subcutaneous and intramuscular medications in accordance with pharmaceutical and organizational policies and procedures.

The scope or extent of the skills that the LPN performs varies according to the predictability of the outcome for a given client population. The LPN Provides nursing care within the LPN Standards of Practice as outlined by British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives and within employer policies, procedures, limits and conditions.

This is a Casual Opportunity. Casual means hours are not guaranteed and may vary and shifts may be at short notice. Casual employees are eligible to apply for internal postings including permanent and temporary positions. There are many opportunities with Interior Health that begin with casual employment and lead to regular employment

Shifts of work will be scheduled days and nights; rotating from07 : 00 to 19 : 00, 19 : 00 to 07 : 00 hours.

About this location / unit :

Tamarack Cottage is a 7 bed tertiary care facility for clients requiring longer-term psychosocial rehabilitation. 5 beds are Tertiary Specialized Long-term Care and 2 beds are Tertiary Rehabilitative.

Interior Health is an organization where you have room to grow and where life outside of work is just as important to us as it is to you.