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Licensed Practical Nurse - Long Term Care
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 7 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
- →VA Careers - Licensed Practical Nurse: https://youtube.com/embed/Ae85IP1Oiz4 Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Major Duties: Communicate and interact appropriately and courteously with internal and external customers from variable patient populations Maintain confidentiality of written, electronic, and verbal patient employee information.
- →Work and function within a safe manner including infection control and use of equipment.
- →Assure that patient safety is paramount in all aspects of patient care.
- →Utilize nursing research and literature in practice.
- →Integrate and apply aspects of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations National Patient Safety Goals as applicable to their area of practice.
- →Provides for the patient's privacy.
- →Assists with data collection for outpatients and new admissions.
- →Completes specific sections of the Nursing Admission Record.
- →Observes, reports and documents signs and symptoms of patient's general condition.
- →Participates in patient care conferences, exchanging information about patients' needs and condition.
- →Provides input into the Nursing Care Plan and/or the Interdisciplinary Plan of Care.
- →Provides direct nursing care to adult and geriatric patients according to nursing standards and Medical Center policy and procedure.
- →This includes, but is not limited to: Bathing, showering, oral care, shaving, toe/fingernail care, fingernail clipping, feeding, turning, positioning, and ambulating, while considering age-specific needs, e.g. the geriatric patients' need for lubrication.
- →Collecting and labeling specimens, e.g. sputum, emesis, urine, stool.
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: 9d4c7885-7e86-4355-a2ba-87b321e8de03
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