Licensed Practical Nurse - Ambulatory Specialty Procedure Clinic

Licensed Practical Nurse

The primary purpose of the Licensed Practical Nurse is to perform assigned duties in a manner that promotes quality health care, positive customer service, and the maintenance of an environment committed to serving the Veteran. Major duties include, but are not limited to:

• Assists with the patient care problems and deviations in accordance with VA Nursing Practice and LPN licensure standards.
• Maintains knowledge and skill to care for a wide range of patients.
• Triages prior to provider's face-to-face visits, nurse visits, telephone triage, secure messaging etc.
• Serves as a resource for simple/specialized procedures (i.e. non-complex suture/staple removal, non-complex wound care, blood draws, and clinic-specific procedures).
• Performs sterile procedure setup, venipuncture for blood draws, prepares specimens for transport and processing (centrifuge and serum separation), accessioning of labels, RMD set-up and prepare for sterile processing.
• Provides patient education about lab tests etc.
• Recognitions of urgent/emergent patient care needs including hypo/hypertension, infiltration, clotting, cramping, acute shortness of breath, acute chest pain, seizures, stroke symptoms, mental health issues etc.
• Takes an active role in health promotion and disease prevention to improve patient outcomes. Provides one-on-one group teaching as appropriate.
• Contributes to the interdisciplinary team, implementation, and evaluation of the treatment plan to promote patient participation and foster patient self-management.
• All other duties as assigned, pertaining to this occupation, to meet the needs of the Agency, Department, Facility, and/or Service.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 7:30am-4:00pm

Recruitment Incentive (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. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).

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.

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized.