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Licensed Practical Nurse - Community Care
Veterans Health Administration · Posted today
About the Role
The Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), provides direct staff support to the Community Care Program in planning, designing, integrating, implementing, modifying and evaluating the effectiveness of services to improve the quality, appropriateness and timeliness of patient care. Works in collaboration with the RN Care Manager and Advanced Medical Support Assistants in care coordination of Veteran's outpatient and inpatient community care by determining eligibility and payment methodology.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties include but are not limited to: Receives electronic notifications of consults and/or community hospitalized notifications by accessing alerts in CPRS.
- →Verifies Veteran's eligibility status utilizing eligibility tool and determines Community care payment methodology.
- →Verifies justification for referral, reason for request, care required, medical justification, type-frequency-estimated length of services, etc.
- →Confirms provision of community outpatient and/inpatient care.
- →Requests clinical information/documentation to confirm care or to extend episode of care.
- →Notifies RN Care Manager and documents on consults of no-shows, cancellations or refusals of care appointments.
- →Runs daily scheduled reports to ensure consults are acted on timely, confirm care and request clarification as needed.
- →Establishes, maintains and exercises an effective resource data base of contacts within the VA system and in the community to assist in facilitation and coordination of Veteran's care within the VA system and in the community.
- →Contacts community providers, vendors and/or VA vendors/providers for additional clinical orders, documentation, etc. as needed to facilitate Veteran's care.
- →Refer urgent/stat alerts to RN Care Manager and/or providers for timely care coordination.
- →Maintains accurate and consistent reports and records with significant Veteran's information received from community providers/vendors and VA providers.
- →Serves as a point of contact for Veteran's and community providers/vendors regarding eligibility status, payment methodology and status of admission/discharge, discharge planning.
- →Ensures all hospital notifications are entered timely.
- →Participates in interdisciplinary huddles and service meetings related to ongoing Community Care issues, actively participating and providing insight to the team.
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.
- ✓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.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Personality Fit
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