Job description

IMMEDIATE OPENING for a Full-time or Part-time Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse (LPN) to support VA Beach Naval Hospital, Virginia Beach, VA.

SPECIFIC TASKS Duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Ensure patient care is carried out in accordance with the Standards of Nursing Care and the policies and procedures of the clinic.
• Check patients into the clinic and triage using clinic guidelines. Inform the nurse or physician of the patient’s condition and potential problems.
• Obtain and document patient and pertinent family history.
• Perform a full range of diagnostic support duties which include taking vital signs, collecting specimens, obtaining, recording and tracking results of diagnostic tools.
• Assist the physician in a variety of diagnostic examinations such as lumbar punctures, colposcopies and sigmoidoscopies, by preparing, positioning and monitoring patients, and setting out and handling instruments and equipment.
• Perform laboratory tests such as checking urine for sugar and stool for blood. Record and report results of test.
• Perform a range of treatment procedures that include sterile dressing changes, applying compresses, monitoring IV fluids, inserting catheters and suctions, inserting nasogastric tubes, administering medications, giving enemas, setting up and giving treatment that requires auxiliary equipment such as oxygen and suction. Ambulate patients to other areas to include Radiology, various clinics, and physical therapy.
• Prepare patients for tests, examinations, treatments, and/or surgery. Collect specimens such as urine, sputum and stool. Label specimens for laboratory examinations and follow up by using CHCS/AHLTA or calling the laboratory for reports. Alert provider to conditions which deviate from expected findings.
• Prepare, start, monitor and discontinue intravenous fluids with accuracy and in accordance with established procedures.
• Operate basic equipment required in delivery of patient care such as pumps, intravenous (IV) pumps, oxygen administration apparatus and incentive spirometers

Education:

• Experience: One year of practical or vocational nurse experience after graduation.
• Licensure: Current, full, active and unrestricted license as a practical or vocational nurse.
• As an alternative to the education requirements in the basic contract, the HCW may be a graduate of a State Board of Nursing approved LPN/LVN training program OR be a graduate of an accredited LPN program by ACEN , OR have completed an equivalent military training program.
• Possess a current unrestricted license to practice as an LPN/LVN in any one (1) of the fifty (50) States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam or the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Benefits include:

• $1,000 sign on bonus
• Relocation (If necessary)
• Competitive wages
• Health benefits
• Health & Welfare Reimbursement
• 401(K)

Please submit resume for immediate assistance.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $1.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person

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