CA$65,680 – CA$82,700TemporaryEN
Summary
We’re currently hiring for an LPN Casting position — join a specialized team where your skills directly support patient recovery and care across orthopaedic, plastics, and minor surgery services!
Reporting to the Patient Care Manager and working under the direction of a Registered Nurse and/or Plastic and Orthopaedic Physician, this role combines hands-on orthopaedic care with holistic nursing support within an interdisciplinary environment. As an LPN Casting, you’ll play an important role in supporting patients through treatment, recovery, and education.
Your responsibilities will include:
Please note that this is a temporary position with an end date of October 1, 2027.
Education
Skills and Abilities
Your Day to Day:
Provides safe and respectful nursing care to an assigned group of patients/residents, according to established policies and procedures, in combination with evolving individualized care plans and setting care priorities.
Conducts head-to-toe assessments, monitors and recognizes abnormal signs or symptoms including laboratory values, and communicates with the RN/RPN, if warranted. Consults other members of the interdisciplinary care team as required. Supports and partners with the RN/RPN in the care of patients/residents with complex or unpredictable outcomes.
Communicates with physician regarding assigned patient/resident and carries out verbal and/or written orders as required. Transcribes orders onto appropriate patient/resident record and processes written orders as needed.
Documents care provided, such as assessments, status, progress, treatments, changes in condition, medications administered and discharge planning, in manual and/or computerized environment.
Fabricates and applies splints and bandages, including finger splints, triangular slings, velpeau bandages, pressure dressing, humeral splints and knee splints, and checks patient circulation as required.
Removes sutures, staples, casts and pins, and cleans and dresses wounds according to plastic and/or orthopaedic physician.
Assists the Registered Nurse and/or Plastic and/or Orthopaedic Physician with the fitting of crutches, and provides instructions to the patient for walking with crutches.
Distributes appropriate teaching cards, and answers questions regarding instructions.
Maintains orthopaedic supplies by methods such monitoring supply levels, completing requisition, forwarding for appropriate authorization, and forwarding to Stores as required.
Who We Are:
Providence Health Care is one of the largest faith-based health care organizations in Canada. For the people at Providence, living our Mission, Vision and Values means providing British Columbians with compassionate, socially just, exceptional and innovative care every day.
From our humble roots 129 years ago, Providence has grown into globally renowned research, teaching, and care organization. As individuals within a mission-driven organization, we choose to be part of Providence Health Care because we value the organization’s long commitment to social justice and compassionate care, and its commitment to the process of Truth and Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.
We acknowledge that Providence Health Care and the new St. Paul’s Hospital site is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
