Licensed Practical Nurse

Job Title

Allied Health Professional

Clinical responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• 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 physicians.
• 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.
• Demonstrates flexibility and willingness to participate in and adapt to an ever changing health care environment.
• Performs basic practical nursing procedures, practices, and techniques for the purpose of providing nursing care to stable patients with both medical and mental health conditions.
• Recognizes and reports emergency situations.
• Understands patient's biopsychosocial needs for the purpose of providing care and input to treatment plans.
• Performs Foley catheter insertions and IV management. With valid state certification, LPN will perform IV insertions utilizing aseptic techniques.

Administrative responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

• 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 insure 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.

Shiftwork

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).

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This is not a virtual position.

51602-A, 51603-A, 51604-A, 51605-A.

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