Vocational Nurse

The Licensed Vocational Nurse/Practical Nurse (LVN/LPN) has a broad degree of practical nursing knowledge and skills. The LVN/LPN will care for adults in the Specialty Care, Nursing Service (Sleep Medicine and Renal Clinic). The LVN/LPN will provide nursing support to assist with triaging, rooming in patients, obtaining vital signs, completing CSSRS screens, assisting providers with minor procedures, and troubleshooting care coordination challenges.

VA Careers - Licensed Practical Nurse:

Duties and responsibilities of the Intermittent LVN include:

* Utilizes judgement and establishes work priorities and completes assignments in a timely manner with minimal supervision.

* Observes, recognizes, and reports significant or adverse changes inpatient's' condition in a timely fashion and responds appropriately to emergency situations.

* Ability to triage, perform chart scrubbing, respond to department phone calls, secure messaging, patient education, and participate in team huddles and meetings

* Ability to assist in obtaining outside records, Community Care medical records, upload, and communicate with providers

* Ability to place and coordinate HOPTEL and Beneficiary Travel Requests

* Utilizes judgement when communicating with patients regarding requests for labs, medication refills, and directs requests to the appropriate Licensed Provider

* Complete assessment of patient condition and response to treatment and initiates follow-up as needed.

* Evaluates and documents patient response to interventions and progress towards attainment of goals and expected.

* Uses the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS), Clinical Procedures, and Bar-Coded Medication Administration (BCMA) software per policy, as well as any future patient documentation programs.

* Communicate with patients via secure messaging and VA Video Connect.

* Coordinate care for his/her panel of patients such as connecting them to all available resources.

* Collaborate with Providers to devise individualized patient care plans including assisting Providers with time outs, room setting and rooming in patients on clinic days.

* Communicating/coordinating care & appointments pre-& post-operatively with local VAs for patients who live far.)

* Identifies nursing diagnosis/clinical problems and related interventions according to Nursing Service/unit policy

* Treats patients and colleagues with respect for all types, levels, and variations of personal and professional differences

* Facilitates the provision of continuity of care with other health care providers through timely follow up

* Coordination of care, focusing on patient transition through the continuum of care, patient, and family health education with a focus on self-management based on the patient's goals

* Functions independently with minimum supervision and maintains ongoing collaboration with physicians, peers, and others on the healthcare team as well as within the community as indicated.

Work Schedule:

Intermittent.
* Schedules are set by the service; as needed.

Telework:
Not Available

Virtual:
This is not a virtual position.

Relocation/Recruitment

Incentives:

Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
Not Authorized