Licensed Practical Nurse

Licensed Practical Nurse

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Clinical Screenings and Visit Preparation - Manages patient and clinic flow using proactive chart review and the 4 R.s: right care, right patient, right time, right provider; actively leads team huddles and panel management activities, identifies care gaps, supports alternate care modalities, and anticipates provider needs to ensure coordinated, patient centered- delivery of care.
• Pre-Visit Coordination and Schedule Management - Leads proactive pre-visit preparation by conducting outreach calls, verifying visit needs, ensuring required instructions and home monitoring data are obtained, and coordinating with others as appropriate to gather external records, questionnaires, and JLV/Community Care documentation; reviews charts to identify and document changes in diagnoses, medications, providers, immunizations, or recent acute care events relevant to the upcoming visit.
• Direct Patient Care and Health Coaching - Leads patient centered, advocacy driven nursing care by prioritizing and organizing clinical tasks within LPN/LVN scope, including medication administration, wound and catheter care, specimen collection, completion of nurse driven clinical reminders, accurate medication history/review, and delivery of independent LPN/LVN visits per protocol; promptly reports clinical changes to the RN or provider.
• Care Planning, Communication, and Follow-Up - Advances coordinated, efficient team-based care by reviewing upcoming schedules for care needs, proposing appropriate alternate visit types or team members, and ensuring timely communication of clinical changes or unresolved issues to the PACT team to support continuity, access, and Veteran centered decision making.
• Clinic Operations, Quality, and Safety - Independently ensures a clean, safe, and fully functional clinical environment by managing room turnover, monitoring and restocking supplies, checking expiration dates, ensuring proper storage of temperature sensitive- items, performing required quality control checks (e.g., glucometers, crash carts, oxygen tanks, medication counts), and initiating corrective actions or work orders when issues are identified.
• Connected Care and Technology Integration - Reviews and triages secure messages, addressing those within LPN/LVN scope and routing others to the RN or provider with clear, concise clinical summaries.
• Team Support and Whole Health - Supports access, quality, and patient experience by identifying care gaps and improvement opportunities, serving as chaperone as appropriate, assisting with immunization and injection clinics, and managing immunization and treatment needs across the assigned panel.
• Other duties as assigned.

Work Schedule: Full-Time; Monday through Friday with alternating Saturdays 7:30am to 4:00pm

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

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: Ad-Hoc - May be authorized at supervisory discretion

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 99263FS

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized