Vocational Nurse

VA Careers - Licensed Practical Nurse: and responsibilities of the Intermittent LVN include:

• Utilizes judgement and establishes work priorities and completes assignments in a timely manner with minimal supervision.
• Observes recognizes and reports significant or adverse changes inpatients condition in a timely fashion and responds appropriately to emergency situations.
• Ability to triage perform chart scrubbing respond to department phone calls secure messaging patient education and participate in team huddles and meetings
• Ability to assist in obtaining outside records Community Care medical records upload and communicate with providers
• Ability to place and coordinate HOPTEL and Beneficiary Travel Requests
• Utilizes judgement when communicating with patients regarding requests for labs medication refills and directs requests to the appropriate Licensed Provider
• Complete assessment of patient condition and response to treatment and initiates follow-up as needed.
• Evaluates and documents patient response to interventions and progress towards attainment of goals and expected.
• Uses the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) Clinical Procedures and Bar-Coded Medication Administration (BCMA) software per policy as well as any future patient documentation programs.
• Communicate with patients via secure messaging and VA Video Connect.
• Coordinate care for his/her panel of patients such as connecting them to all available resources.
• Collaborate with Providers to devise individualized patient care plans including assisting Providers with time outs room setting and rooming in patients on clinic days.
• Communicating/coordinating care & appointments pre-& post-operatively with local VAs for patients who live far.)
• Identifies nursing diagnosis/clinical problems and related interventions according to Nursing Service/unit policy
• Treats patients and colleagues with respect for all types levels and variations of personal and professional differences
• Facilitates the provision of continuity of care with other health care providers through timely follow up
• Coordination of care focusing on patient transition through the continuum of care patient and family health education with a focus on self-management based on the patients goals
• Functions independently with minimum supervision and maintains ongoing collaboration with physicians peers and others on the healthcare team as well as within the community as indicated.

Conditions of employment

• 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 ( Effective May 7 2025 drivers licenses or state-issued dentification 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).

Qualifications

Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met.

Basic Requirements:

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• English Language Proficiency. In accordance with 38 U.S.C. 7402(d) no person shall serve in direct patient care positions unless they are proficient in basic written and spoken English.
• Education - Graduate of a school of practical or vocational nursing approved by the appropriate State agency and/or accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC) at the time the program was completed by the applicant. Exceptions include health care education in the military service or training in the military service which is accepted by the licensing body in the jurisdiction in which the individual is licensed as qualifying for full LPN/LVN licensure will be accepted as meeting the education requirements for VHA employment OR granted a license by a jurisdiction that does not require graduation from an approved school AND have at least one year of successful practice as an LPN/ LVN.
• Licensure - Active full current and unrestricted licensure as a Graduate Licensed Practical or Vocational Nurse in a State Territory or Commonwealth (i.e. Puerto Rico) of the United States or the District of Columbia.

• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to provide a full range of practical nursing care to patients with a variety of physical and/or behavioral problems.
• Demonstrated ability to serve as a responsible member of the nursing team and interact with patients family members professional and supportive personnel patient care.
• Knowledge and skill sufficient to prepare administer and appropriately document actions taken specific to commonly prescribed oral topical subcutaneous intramuscular and/or intravenous medications as permitted by approved local facility policies and procedures.
• Knowledge and ability to recognize the need for and to institute emergency measures when indicated promptly seek the assistance of the RN or MD/DO and assist in resuscitation procedures in cardiac and/or pulmonary arrest.
• Recognizes and appropriately responds to breakage/malfunction or loss of equipment safety hazards and supply deficiencies promptly reporting to appropriate personnel for corrective action.
• Completed work is under the general supervision of an RN or MD/DO.

• Technically proficient in initiating performing and completing assigned duties in providing care to variable patient populations.
• Knowledge and ability to appropriately carry out assigned patient care based on the patients conditions and to use judgment in selecting the appropriate order and sequence of procedures and treatments.
• Ability to observe identify and respond to the patients needs for medication equipment-assisted care and patient/family education.
• Prepares and administers prescribed medications (oral topical subcutaneous intramuscular and/or intravenous) and performs treatments according to established policies/procedures.
• Knowledge and ability to recognize urgent or emergent patient care situations seek assistance of the RN and/or MD/DO and initiate appropriate emergency interventions as directed.
• Knowledge and understanding of human behavior patient motivations and reactions to situations and ability to appropriately utilize this knowledge in working effectively with patients family members and other staff.
• Establishes constructive relationships with individual patients and their families to elicit feelings and attitudes and to promote positive relationships communication and socialization skills.
• Knowledge and skill in performing support duties for complex diagnostic tests and/or specialized practices or procedures which include preparing the patient assisting in the diagnostic examination preparing and handling specialized instruments or other specialized equipment and monitoring the patients condition before during and following the procedure.
• Actively seeks out educational opportunities to enhance nursing knowledge and skills sharing new knowledge gained with other staff to improve and advance nursing practice.