Practical Nurse

Licensed Practical Nurse

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VA Careers - Licensed Practical Nurse: Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties: GS-3 (Entry Level)

• Perform basic nursing procedures
• Assist with care for patients in home setting as part of the Home Based Primary Care interdisciplinary team.
• Obtains vital signs, assists with basic treatments, and reports observations to the RN case manager.

GS-4

• Responsible and accountable for individual nursing practices.
• Performs an expanded range of nursing procedures in the home setting for patients with moderately complex chronic conditions.
• Exercises limited independent judgement in adapting care to the home environment, monitors patient and caregiver responses, and communicates findings to the RN case manager.

GS-5

• Responsible and accountable for nursing practice in the home setting.
• Conducts home visits, implements the nursing care plan, administers medications and treatments, educates patients and caregivers, and recognizes and reports changes in condition that may require case manager or provider intervention.

GS-6 (Full Performance)

• Responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice.
• Technically proficient in initiating, performing, and completing assigned duties in providing care to variable patient populations.
• Knowledge and ability to appropriately carry out assigned patient care based on the patient's conditions.
• Use judgement in selecting the appropriate order and sequence of procedures and treatments.
• Accurately recognize, report and record relevant patient information.
• Exercise high degree of independent judgement in the home setting in managing patients with complex, multiple, or unstable chronic conditions who require specialized monitoring and intervention.
• Performs advanced or technically difficult procedures within scope of practice.
• Identifies and addresses barriers to care unique to the home environment.
• Serves as a resource to other LPN/LVN staff on complex home-care cases.
• Operates with considerable autonomy between team check-ins, consistent with the independent nature of home-based care delivery.

Work Schedule: Full-time; Mon-Fri 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM or 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM

Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized

EDRP Authorized: Former EDRP participants ineligible to apply for incentive. Contact View email address on click.appcast.io, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more

Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases.

Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Telework: Not available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 61515A, 61516A, 61517A, 6518A

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized