Part-Time LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse III) - Fitzsimons Veterans Community Living Center, Aurora

LPN III Nurse

This position is responsible for planning and coordinating basic and skilled nursing care for residents. The role involves reviewing and auditing care activities to ensure they meet quality assurance standards and comply with established policies. Key duties include administering routine and specialized nursing services, such as medications and treatments, and documenting all care in medical records. The ideal candidate will also assess and evaluate residents upon admission, during critical incidents, or whenever there's a change in their condition to determine necessary nursing interventions. For those who are IV certified, administering IV fluids as prescribed is also a requirement. The nurse will also be responsible for assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of all care and treatment provided.

Additionally, as an LPN III, you can expect to:

• Provide and coordinate nursing care: Plan and coordinate skilled nursing care for residents, including a broad range of medical treatments and procedures.
• Ensure quality and compliance: Review and audit specific care activities to ensure they comply with policies and quality standards.
• Administer medication: Competently administer medications to residents, following the five rights of safe medication administration, resident rights, and infection control standards.
• Assess and monitor residents: Identify changes in residents' conditions that require assessment by a registered nurse, document treatments, and gather data to determine their effectiveness.
• Promote safety: Identify and intervene for high-risk residents to prevent falls and skin breakdown and correctly use safety and positioning devices, transfer belts, and other equipment.
• Participate in team development: Contribute to work teams to establish best practice protocols and provide input and orientation for new employees.
• Maintain professional skills: Keep your skills, knowledge, and competencies current through continuing education and ongoing training.
• Manage supplies and equipment: Ensure proper infection control, use universal precautions, and dispose of waste correctly. Clean linen rooms and equipment, and stock supplies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Special Qualifications:

• Valid unrestricted Colorado LPN license in good standing and a BLS CPR card

Education/Licensure/Certification/Experience:

• Current, valid licensure as an LPN from the Colorado Board of Nursing or any state participating in the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC)
• AND Three years of professional experience in a long-term care environment

Substitutions

Appropriate education will substitute for up to two years of the required experience on a year-for-year basis

Conditions of Employment:

• FULL BACKGROUND CHECK: This position will have direct contact with vulnerable persons (as defined by C.R.S.27-90-111: "Direct contact" means providing face-to-face care, training, supervision, counseling, consultation, or medication assistance to vulnerable persons, regardless of the level of supervision of the department employee. "Direct contact" may include positions in which persons have access to or unsupervised time with clients or patients, including but not limited to maintenance personnel, housekeeping staff, kitchen staff, and security personnel.)
• Full background checks include: CBI & FBI fingerprint check, Colorado Court Database check, Medicare Fraud Database, TRAILS Database check.
• This position will also provide direct care to vulnerable adults requiring a CAPS check (as defined by C.R.S. 26-3.1-101, position provides services & support care to at-risk/vulnerable adults including case management, clergy, physical or mental health services, safety or welfare services)This position requires State of Colorado residency at the time of application (unless otherwise identified in the posting), and residency within the state throughout the duration of employment in this position.

Day, evening, and night shifts to include holidays & weekends as needed. May be required to do on-call work.

Must complete and pass a tuberculosis (TB) test

Must be willing to obtain vaccinations, as required by the State and facility

Required to have a current, valid BLS Healthcare Provider Card

May require on-call status, if needed, per the pay plan for this position

Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must:

• Disclose that information on the application.
• Explain why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify you from the current position.
• Provide your employee number from your prior State employment. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination, and failure to provide this information will disqualify the applicant from future State employment with CDHS.