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Licensed Practical Nurse
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 63 days ago
About the Role
The Ambulatory Care Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) GS-7 functions as a member of the health care team by demonstrating an exceptional degree of practical nursing knowledge and skills necessary for self-direction in carrying out complex practical nursing care assignments within the CBOCs/CPCs for a Veteran population with a variety of health care needs. This position is located that the Fort Detrick, MD Community Based Outreach Clinic.
What You'll Do
- →The incumbent collaborates with a PACT team to provide complex/specialized patient-centered care to a panel of approximately 1200 patients taking into consideration patients' ages, cultural backgrounds, education level, and any other special needs.
- →The LPN completes assigned duties and responsibilities that involve performing non-standard and specialized practical nursing activities requiring board nursing knowledge, experience, and skills to address a wide range of care needs.
- →The LPN at the GS 7 level must exercise independent judgement and requires minimal supervisory oversight.
- →The incumbent is expected to participate to a greater degree in prioritizing and, as appropriate, modifying patient care treatment plans.
- →He/she must also possess the ability to observe subtle physical and emotional changes in patients, exercise sound nursing judgement, and demonstrate appropriate action based on those observations.
- →The LPN must possess the knowledge and skill to promptly recognize potential urgent/ emergent patient care situations, seek team assistance as appropriate, and effectively intervene to assure the delivery of safe patient care.
- →Duties include, but are not limited to: Demonstrates knowledge, skill, and ability to promptly recognize and effectively intervene in potentially urgent or emergent situations.
- →Demonstrates the ability to independently adjust or modify care being delivered to meet the changing needs of the patient with notification to the RN or provider for concurrence.
- →Assesses, records, and reports vital signs, neurological signs, weight, and blood glucose levels.
- →Appropriately triages and prioritizes patient needs as routine, urgent, or emergent in the clinical setting and modifies patient care/treatment as needed.
- →Completes all required documents in a timely manner in accordance with VA policy and TJC standards of care.
- →Demonstrates excellent written and oral communication skills.
- →Prepares, administers, and documents medications and immunizations as directed without error that may cause harm to patients.
- →Demonstrates practical and theoretical knowledge about medication side effects, purposes, therapeutic dosages range, and toxic effects with skill sufficient to administer a wide range of medications.
Requirements
- ✓IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.
- ✓You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
- ✓If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
- ✓IMPORTANT: A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
- ✓Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment.
- ✓You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/.
- ✓If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
- ✓For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 040a375b-de1b-490b-a89c-9b7398f1bb65
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