Licensed Practical Nurse Outpatient PACE Program

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) with our Outpatient Clinic PACE (Program of All Inclusive Care for the Elderly Program) with CarePartners Health Services!

This position is for our Clinic Monday-Friday, closed on the weekends!

Job Summary and Qualifications

Summary:

The Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) within the PACE program plays a vital role in supporting our participants through comprehensive medication oversight and team coordination. Guided by the PACE model of care, which emphasizes an interdisciplinary, participant-centered approach focused on promoting independence and allowing individuals to remain safely in their homes and communities, the LPN serves as an essential member of the clinical care team. This position is responsible for ensuring medications are administered and documented accurately, assessing changes in condition, and providing hands on care. In collaboration with providers, pharmacy, caregivers, and the interdisciplinary team, the LPN supports communication, care coordination, and continuity of services to promote optimal participant outcomes and enhance quality of life.

What qualifications you will need:

Essential Accountabilities:

Provides direct patient care in an outpatient setting, evaluates outcomes and adjusts nursing care processes indicated to adhere to legal, ethical, and clinical standards.

Performance Criteria:

1. Evaluates and records patient vitals
2. Assists provider with therapeutic and diagnostic procedures
3. Administers oral/injectable medications as ordered and monitors patient’s response
4. Delegates to other licensed and unlicensed staff according to scope of practice and competency.
5. Delivers quality customer service to all patients and family members.
6. Triages participants and addresses their needs and concerns. Makes clinical judgement based on their symptoms to determine if the need to see the physician is necessary. Treatment determined by urgency of need.
7. Coordinates care as indicated with specialist providers and nursing facilities
8. Coordinating with care team to implement goals and interventions as it relates to the clinical team
9. Assessing participants medical needs and interventions to create success in the community and creating plan of care to support needs

10. Coordinator of care, orders, and interventions as prescribed with SNF Partners. 

11. Collaborates and consults with patient, colleagues and interdisciplinary team to achieve desired outcomes.

Performance Criteria:
1. Regularly documents and reports data, patient response and progress.
2. Individualizes patient teaching and care plan based on patient’s needs.
3. Helps to achieve desired outcomes by serving as an advocate for patients and families.
4. Identifies problems and implements measures to meet needs of patients and families
throughout continuum of care.

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• (LPN/LVN) Licensed Practical or Vocational Nurse must be obtained within 2 years of employment start date
• Associate Degree

No Travel Required

Benefits

CarePartners, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

CarePartners Health Services, a member of Mission Health, an operating division of HCA Healthcare, is a healthcare organization serving western North Carolina and offering a full continuum of post-acute care. Located in Asheville, North Carolina, it’s services include a Rehabilitation Hospital, Home Health, Outpatient Rehabilitation, Hospice, Palliative Care, Private Duty, PACE (Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly) and Orthotics & Prosthetics. With more than 1,200 colleagues and 400 volunteers, CarePartners Health Services is dedicated to helping people of western North Carolina live full and productive lives, despite illness, injury, disability or issues related to aging. 

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our LPN Outpatient Clinic PACE CarePartners opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.