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Licensed Practical Nurse (Float)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 3 days ago
About the Role
The Licensed Practical Nurse (Float) position works in Patient Care Services. The incumbent will provide safe and individualized nursing care to patients in the Mental Health, Community Living Center and Ambulatory Care locations. The incumbent will also interact with patients, families and other health care supportive personnel with the goal of delivering safe physical and emotional care to patients with increasingly complex needs.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Licensed Practical Nurse: https://youtube.com/embed/Ae85IP1Oiz4 Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties include but are not limited to: Provide nursing care for and assistance to patients in meeting their personal hygiene needs such as bathing, feeding, lifting and turning.
- →Obtain and label routine urine, stool and sputum specimens.
- →Measure and record body temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure forthe patient's records.
- →Perform such treatments and procedures as hot and cold compresses, enemas, sterile dressings and sitz bath.
- →Assist the doctor or nurse in patient examinations.
- →Prepares and administers prescribed medications (oral, topical and intramuscular)and observes for physical and emotional contraindications from the medications.
- →Observes, reports and records in the patient's care plan significant conditions both physical and emotional, obvious and subtle, which have relevance to the health status of the patient. physical and emotional, obvious, and subtle, which have relevance to the health status of the patient.
- →Responds to emergency situations such as cardiopulmonary arrest.
- →Sets up and gives treatments that require the assembly and operation of special equipment such as oxygen.
- →Communicates and treats customers (patients, visitors, volunteers, and all Medical Center staff) in a courteous, tactful, and respectful manner.
- →Provides the customer with consistent information according to established policies and procedures.
- →Handles conflict and problems in dealing with the customer constructively and appropriately.
- →Work Schedule: 7:30am - 4:00pm, with rotation to weekends and holidays.
- →Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized.
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
Job ID: 535dd3a5-d433-4791-a083-5df3afc5eb18
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