Licensed Practical Nurse

Licensed Practical Nurse

Assists with the planning, implementation, and evaluation of patients' care with all interdisciplinary teams. Functions in complex healthcare activities with minimal supervision and guidance.

Manages patient care problems and deviations using self-direction in accordance with VA Nursing Practice and LPN licensure standards. Maintains knowledge and skills to care for a wide range of patients, including those with chronic and acute illness.

Provide nursing care for adults with population specific needs by incorporating pertinent physical, psychosocial, and cultural needs into the patient plan of care.

Readily identifies patient complications and acts to resolve issues under very general supervision. Applies critical thinking skills to solve clinical and administrative issues.

Able to proactively assist staff to identify Veteran medications/treatment needs, and accurately relay those needs to necessary/pertinent team members involved in the Veteran's care.

Collaborates with the PACT team and other interdisciplinary services in the development, implementation, and evaluation of patient care.

Provides indirect nursing care to patients with complex needs as related to consult management, screening of telephone calls, as well as assuming responsibility and accountability for nursing action.

Demonstrates active listening and excellent interviewing/screening skills during telephone calls to obtain pertinent information from the caller and utilizes computerized medical record as an additional information resource.

Serves as a preceptor in orienting, educating, and training less experienced LPN staff related to support duties for more complex, specialized tests/procedures.

Determines clinic assignments, timely patient communication, consult management and medical record review/retrieval.

Actively seeks out educational opportunities to enhance nursing knowledge and skills and provide leadership in assisting other staff to improve and advance their nursing practice. Maintains and updates professional certifications as required by policy/procedure.

Participates in safety inspections and proactively reports unsafe working conditions to supervisory staff members. Collaborates with NM and other VA leadership to ensure work area and nursing practice is maintained in accordance with Joint Commission, OIG and other regulatory agency guidelines. Demonstrates a leadership role during EOC rounds and assists NM with correction of any identified deficiencies. Serves as a resource for other LPN/MT/MSA staff re: Continued Readiness Initiatives.

Applies infection control measures appropriately in delivering nursing care.

Demonstrates knowledge of all processes for reusable medical equipment (RME). Demonstrates proper setup and maintenance according to facility standard operating procedure (SOP). Serves as a resource for the other staff members and assists with completion of annual competency validation.

Assists the RN/LPN to prepare patients for transport to appointments, other departments, emergency department, or other unit transfers.

Performs treatments and procedures within the scope of license and facility policies and procedures.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 8am - 4:30pm

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized

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) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior work experience or military service experience.

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 #: 94215A

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized