Licensed Practical Nurse

Job Title

Allied Health Professional

Clinical Responsibilities

Accurately collects, reports, and records appropriate patient care data to contribute to the nursing assessment.

Serves as a member of the interdisciplinary team; understands patients' biopsychosocial needs for the purpose of providing care and input to treatment plans.

Identifies and reports signs and symptoms of deviation from normal health status and changes in patient condition.

Is able to identify potential suicide risks in patients and reports to RN or provider.

Prepares and administers prescribed medications in accordance with established policy and procedure and observes, reports, and documents patients' response to medications. Establishes effective and therapeutic relations with and proves nursing care to acute and chronically ill patients with both medical and mental health conditions.

Recognizes expected outcomes of interventions and reports, records, and exchanges information with members of the treatment team.

Reinforces and reiterates instructions previously presented by a Registered Nurse or providers. Promotes environmental safety, security, and patient confidentiality. Recognizes and reports unsafe equipment or situations and follows policy and procedure to assure personal and patient safety during patient care activities.

Maintains therapeutic interpersonal relationships with patients and co-workers.

Participate in and adapt to an ever-changing health care environment.

Conducts reassessments and inspections according to policy, such as skin, pain fall and PRN, without waiting for RN to direct.

Performs procedures in the outpatient clinic setting within the scope of practice of a LPN such as simple spirometry, home oxygen certification, and vaccine administration. May perform phlebotomy functions if appropriately qualified to do so.

Serves as a resource for lower grade LPNs.

Administrative Responsibilities

Enters specific information into the patient's electronic record using appropriate formats, medical terminology, and templates. This information must be entered in a complete, confidential, and professional manner to ensure information on the patient is shared with other VA staff. This information is to be reviewed on a regular basis.

Establishes and maintains positive working relationships with employees, volunteers, consumers and stakeholders within the VA and outside community agencies. Attendance of all appropriate staff meetings (interdisciplinary treatment team meetings, other committees as appropriate, etc.) is necessary.

Identifies process and quality improvement opportunities and contributes to changes in processes through data collection.

Additional duties may be required to be performed, as needed.

Schedule

This position potentially requires flexibility in schedule and assignments as this is a 24/7 medical center. Some positions require rotation of tours or indefinite work on non-administrative tours as established by the immediate supervisor. Incumbent may be asked to travel to cover in other areas or clinics and must possess and maintain a valid state issued drivers license. Self-motivated in the pursuit of meeting professional work standards.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm

Benefits

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).

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.

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.

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

Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

US Department of Veterans Affairs