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Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 13 days ago
On-site Ardmore, OK $41K – $74K Apply by Sep 14, 2026 Practical Nurse ESFJISFJISFPISTJ OperationsHealthcare
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The Oklahoma City VA Health Care System is recruiting for three (3) Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurses (LPNs/LVNs), with one position at each designated Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC). The primary purpose of the Outpatient Primary Care LPN/LVN role is to provide patient-centered nursing care directed by a registered nurse (RN) or provider. The LPN/LVN supports safe, efficient clinical operations and contributes to high-quality care within the healthcare team.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Licensed Practical Nurse: https://youtube.com/embed/Ae85IP1Oiz4 Total Rewards - Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Primary Duties: Initiate and complete structured health screenings, deliver nursing interventions, promote patient safety, and reinforce education and preventive care.
- →Assist with ensuring smooth clinic flow and service continuity by completing preventive procedures, nursing tasks, chart reviews, panel scrubbing, daily huddles, and visit preparation.
- →Support efficient clinic operations: complete screening reminders, room patients, assist providers, manage room turnover, and place pre-visit calls to prepare patients.
- →Contribute to schedule management by reviewing upcoming appointments, identifying alternate care modalities, supporting consult tracking, and serving as backup for post-discharge calls.
- →Utilize clinic tools, participate in PACT meetings, and maintain continuity, coordination, and quality of care across the team.
- →Patient Care & Customer Service: Provide patient-focused support by confirming reason for visit, conducting pre-visit outreach, reinforcing instructions, and ensuring patients bring necessary logs and health information.
- →Perform pre-visit planning: review records, obtain missing documentation, update clinical changes, and prepare data to support efficient, high-quality appointments.
- →Support clinic flow: room patients, collect vital data, complete clinical reminders, assist with routine procedures, administer medications/immunizations, and keep exam rooms clean, safe, and stocked.
- →Aid clinical decision-making by reviewing medications/allergies, identifying urgent needs, initiating protocols or clinical pathways (per policy), and relaying key findings to the RN or provider.
- →Participate in health coaching, patient education, secure message management, consult tracking, PACT meetings, and follow-up with no-show patients for safety and continuity.
- →Team Support & Teamwork: Participate in pre-planning, daily huddles, and team meetings.
- →Assist with immunizations, injections, procedures, prevention efforts, and serve as chaperone when appropriate.
- →Collaborate to achieve team access, quality, and patient experience goals, contribute to schedule review and visit modalities, and manage/reroute secure messages.
- →Maintain an organized, efficient clinical environment by ensuring rooms are stocked and clean, supplies and equipment are managed, and quality control checks are performed.
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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