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Vocational Nurse (Float Position)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 3 days ago
Hybrid Balcones Heights, TX $49K – $90K Apply by Jun 9, 2026 Practical Nurse ESFJISFJISFPISTJ Healthcare
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The Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Float helps cover all South Texas VHCS clinics in the event of sick leave, annual leave, or extended FMLA, functioning as a member of the nursing care team in the care of patients and/or residents receiving care. This position is located at the Balcones Heights VA Silver Clinic - 4522 Fredricksburg Road, Suites A-10, San Antonio, TX 78201-6521
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Major duties include: Clinical Skills: Uses clinical reasoning and established evidence-based policies as the basis for decision-making in nursing practice.
- →Assist in determining the physical and mental health status, needs, and preferences of culturally, ethnically, and socially diverse veterans and their families based on interpretation of health-related data.
- →Report data to assist in the identification of problems and formulation of goal/outcomes and patient-centered plans of care in collaboration with veterans, their families, and the interdisciplinary health care team.
- →Provide safe, compassionate, basic nursing care to assigned patients with predictable health care needs through a supervised, directed scope of practice Implement aspects of the plan of care within legal, ethical, and regulatory parameters and in consideration of patient factors.
- →Identify and report alterations in patient responses to therapeutic interventions in comparison to expected outcomes.
- →Implement teaching plans for patients and their families with common health problems and well-defined health learning needs.
- →Assist in the coordination of human, information, and materiel resources in providing care for assigned patients and their families.
- →Patient Safety: Demonstrate knowledge of the all nursing, federal, state, and local government and accreditation organization safety requirements and standards Implement measures to promote quality and a safe environment for patients, self, and others.
- →Assist in the formulation of goals and outcomes to reduce patient risks.
- →Obtain instruction, supervision, or training as needed when implementing nursing procedures or practices.
- →Accept and make assignments that take into consideration patient safety and organizational policy.
- →Member of the Health Care Team: Communicate and collaborate with patients, their families, and the interdisciplinary health care team to assist in the planning, delivery, and coordination of patient-centered care to assigned patients.
- →Participate as an advocate in activities that focus on improving the health care of patients and their families.
- →Participate in the identification of patient needs for referral to resources that facilitate continuity of care and ensure confidentiality.
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.
- ✓Pre-Employment/Post-Employment Physical Examination: May be required, depending on the needs of the organization.
- ✓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.
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