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Licensed Practical Nurses  (NOC 3233)
Montérégie Region
Description |  Titles |  Duties |   Related Occupations

Licensed practical nurses provide nursing care usually under the direction of medical practitioners, registered nurses or other health team members. They are employed in hospitals, nursing homes, extended care facilities, rehabilitation centres, doctors' offices, clinics, companies, private homes and community health centres. Operating room technicians are included in this unit group.

certified nursing assistant (CNA), licensed nursing assistant, licensed practical nurse (L.P.N.), operating room technician, registered nursing assistant (R.N.A.), registered practical nurse (R.P.N.).

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Licensed practical nurses perform some or all of the following duties:
  • 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 effectiveness of nursing interventions and consult with appropriate members of healthcare team
  • Provide safety and health education to individuals and their families.
Operating room technicians perform some or all of the following duties:
  • Prepare patients for surgery by washing, shaving and sterilizing the patients' operative areas
  • Assist in surgery by laying out instruments, setting up equipment, assisting surgical teams with gowns and gloves and passing instruments to surgeons
  • Clean and sterilize the operating room and instruments.
Included Cities in Region | Service Canada Offices

Longueuil, Beloeil, Contrecoeur, Granby, Huntingdon, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Otterburn Park, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Acton Vale, Bedford, Cowansville, Farnham, Iberville, L'Île-Perrot, Marieville, Pincourt, Richelieu, Saint-Césaire, Sainte-Julie, Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel, Saint-Luc, Saint-Rémi, Saint-Timothée, Sorel, Tracy, Waterloo, McMasterville, Nitro, Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil, Val-Boisé

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Outlook & Prospects for Licensed Practical Nurses in Montérégie Region

The future forecast and current conditions for an occupation can vary based on location or due to changes in the economy, technology, or demand for a product or service.

Local Employment Potential Information

Table on the employment potential for Licensed Practical Nurses in Montérégie Region as well as in the rest of the Québec.
Location Employment Potential Release Date
Montérégie Region Good 2012-10-31

For the 2012-2014 period, the employment outlook for this occupation is good in the Montérégie region. Employment volume is high and labour will be in very high demand. Job openings will arise primarily from a need to replace retiring licensed practical nurses, but also from job creation.

Workers in this occupational group work primarily in the health and social services sector, including hospitals and ambulatory care centres. Given government health-care priorities, the shortage of graduate nurses, increasing health-care costs and the addition of procedures previously reserved for registered nurses, the number of licensed practical nurses is expected to increase sharply in the coming years.

[ Source: Labour Market Information - HRSDC ]

Local Labour Market News

Week of Apr 30 – May 04, 2012

[ Source: Labour Market Information - HRSDC ]
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