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License Practical Nurse
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 40 days ago
About the Role
This position is eligible for the Education Debt Reduction Program (EDRP), a student loan payment reimbursement program. You must meet specific individual eligibility requirements in accordance with VHA policy and submit your EDRP application within four months of appointment. Program Approval, award amount (up to $200,000) and eligibility period (one to five years) are determined by the VHA Education Loan Repayment Services program office after complete review of the EDRP application.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The LPN/LVN GS-6 is responsible and accountable for individual nursing practice.
- →Technically proficient in initiating, performing, and completing assigned duties in providing care to variable patient populations.
- →Knowledge and ability to appropriately carry out assigned patient care based on the patents' conditions; to use judgment in selecting the appropriate order and sequence of procedures and treatments; and to accurately recognize, report and record relevant patient information.
- →The LPN provides patient and family health education with a focus on self-management, prevention, and wellness, based on the patient's goals.
- →The LPN demonstrates leadership by serving as an advocate for patients and a team leader with colleagues as she/he continues to enhance his/her own and the team's professional growth, development and practice.
- →The LPN practices according to the Primary Care Handbook (VHA Handbook 1101.10) and VHA Directive 1406, Patient Centered Management Module (PCMM) for Primary Care.
- →He/she provides Health Coaching to enhance the patient's wellbeing and achieve their related health related goals per VHA Handbook 1120.02, Health Promotion and Disease prevention Core Program Requirements.
- →He/she provides Health Education as defined in VHA Handbook 1120.04, Veterans Health Education and Information Core to enhance the quality of life through health promotion and disease prevention, actively partner with their health care teams and engage needed family and social support systems while developing self-management and coping skills and utilizing appropriate VHA health care resources.
- →Establish Home Telehealth monitoring using case management principles to coordinate care using health informatics, disease management, and telehealth technologies to facilitate access to care and to improve the health of Veterans to improve clinical outcomes.
- →Provides personalized, proactive, patient-driven health care.
- →The LPN provides patient-driven engagement with the patient being the source of control, ensuring that their health care is based on their needs, values, and life preferences.
- →Builds a relationship between the patient and health care team.
- →Provides Veterans with ongoing health education, which spans the continuum of care from the skills and information needed to promote health and prevent disease, to the patient education needed to cope with and manage acute and chronic conditions.
- →Clinical preventive services are delivered for the primary prevention of disease, or for the early detection of disease in persons who are asymptomatic for the target condition, with the goal of preventing or minimizing morbidity and mortality.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 38a16a2e-6a0a-43e0-bb50-d3b9b99bfc4b
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