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Licensed Practical Nurse
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 11 days ago
About the Role
The VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System is recruiting for an Licensed Practical Nurse. The Licensed Practical Nurse will function in Community Outpatient Services.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Licensed Practical Nurse: https://youtube.com/embed/Ae85IP1Oiz4 Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Assists with the planning, implementation, and evaluation of patients' care with all interdisciplinary teams.
- →Functions in complex healthcare activities with minimal supervision and guidance.
- →Manages patient care problems and deviations using self-direction in accordance with VA Nursing Practice and LPN licensure standards.
- →Maintains knowledge and skills to care for a wide range of patients, including those with chronic and acute illness.
- →Provide nursing care for adults with population specific needs by incorporating pertinent physical, psychosocial, and cultural needs into the patient plan of care. .
- →Readily identifies patient complications and acts to resolve issues under very general supervision.
- →Applies critical thinking skills to solve clinical. and administrative issues.
- →Able to proactively assist staff to identify Veteran medications/treatment needs, and accurately relay those needs to necessary/pertinent team members involved in the Veteran's care.
- →Collaborates with the PACT team and other interdisciplinary services in the development, implementation, and evaluation of patient care.
- →Provides indirect nursing care to patients with complex needs as related to consult management, screening of telephone calls, as well as assuming responsibility and accountability for nursing action.
- →Demonstrates active listening and excellent interviewing/screening skills during telephone calls to obtain pertinent information from the caller and utilizes computerized medical record as an additional information resource.
- →Serves as a preceptor in orienting, educating, and training less experienced LPN staff related to support duties for more complex, specialized tests/procedures.
- →Determines clinic assignments, timely patient communication, consult management and medical record review/retrieval.
- →Actively seeks out educational opportunities to enhance nursing knowledge and skills and provide leadership in assisting other staff to improve and advance their nursing practice.
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.
- ✓Employees may be subject to random drug tests.
- ✓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.
Personality Fit
Job ID: e953ff06-f1dd-404b-a746-a2c095c52000
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