The VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System (VASNHCS) Community Living Center Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) is a professional nurse who provides nursing care to chronically and/or acutely ill patients under the supervision of the Registered Nurse, nurse practitioner, and/or the physician. The LPN accurately performs, interprets, reports, and documents treatments, and administers medications in a timely manner using nursing principles and individualizing patient care. Duties include but are not limited to: * Observing changes in resident's condition (e.g. behavior shifts, mood changes, skin coloring, appetite, etc.) * Documenting care provided and observations on appropriate tools or forms. * Assuring receipt of adequate nutritional intake either through observation, feeding or properly positioning and checking placement of feeding tube for the resident. * Administering medications, stoma care (e.g. tracheotomy, suctioning, and colostomy), enemas, skin care, simple dressing, braces and prosthetic devices. Monitors intake and output according to established policy and procedure. * Recognizing the resident's autonomy and promoting independence by means of respect, limit setting and individualized treatment. * Demonstrating knowledge to provide a full range of practical nursing care to residents with a variety of physical and/or behavioral problems. * Serves as team leader to a group of residents, observing nursing care delivered and reporting concerns to the charge nurse. * Administers nursing care to residents, such as baths or showers, enemas, treatments and minor dressing changes, as assigned. * Performs venipunctures to withdraw blood from peripheral veins according to policies and procedures. * Identifies, reports, and documents medication errors/discrepancies, reactions and side effects immediately, according to policy and procedure. Work Schedule: Full time, 40 hours per week, rotating shifts and days required Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
Providing Health Care for Veterans: The Veterans Health Administration is America’s largest integrated health care system, providing care at 1,255 health care facilities, including 170 medical centers and 1,074 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics), serving 9 million enrolled Veterans each year.
