Description du poste
This Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) position is located at the Sioux Falls VA Health Care System, VA Community Living Center in Sioux Falls, SD. The center's mission focuses on delivering compassionate, person-centered care to Veterans who need extended hospital stays and short-term rehabilitation services. In this capacity, the LPN collaborates with a nursing team to support Veterans in achieving optimal well-being, preventing health declines, and ensuring comfort during end-of-life care.
PRINCIPALES MISSIONS :
Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Major duties include but are not limited to: Assist with daily cares such as shower/bathing, dressing, ambulating, and feeding. Participate in the evaluation of responses to interventions in the areas of health promotion, wound care, basic physical/psychological/social assessments, support care plans, palliative care, hospice. Prepare and administer medications prescribed by the provider. Prioritize patient care needs, support care plans, seeking assistance and guidance by informing the CLC Registered Nurse or the CLC providers of changes in patient's condition. Perform complex procedures to include catheterizations, peripheral IV insertion, saline flushes in peripheral lines and maintenance of peripheral lines. Assist provider with diagnostic tests and procedures. Collect specimen samples from patients. Recognize and respond to patient emergencies, initiating life saving measures while waiting for help to arrive. Ability to provide Basic Life Support if needed. Document data into the electronic medical record following established guidelines. Mentor lower graded LPNs and unlicensed medical staff. Other duties as assigned. Work Schedule: Sunday-Saturday, Day/Evening/Night Shifts. Rotating holidays and weekends required. Work is scheduled in 8 and 12 hour shifts between 7:15 a.m-7:45p.m., 7:30 p.m.-7:30 a.m., 7:15 a.m.-3:45 p.m., or 11:15 a.m. -7 :45 p.m.. Additional Premium Pay: Shift Differential - 10% of basic pay for work performed during regularly scheduled hours between 6pm and 6am. Weekend Premium - 25% of basic pay for work performed between the hours of midnight Friday and midnight Sunday. Holiday Pay - 2 times basic hourly rate for regularly scheduled, non-overtime work on a designated holiday. Recruitment/Relocation Incentives: Recruitment/Relocation incentive may be authorized for eligible, highly qualified applicants. Compressed/Flexible: Available Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not authorized Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade). Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year). Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience. Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child. Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66. Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized Physical requirements: This position requires some degree of fitness, strength, and agility. Duties require extensive periods of standing and walking. Working with
À propos de Veterans Health Administration
OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for those who have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate whole health care to Veterans? The Sioux Falls VA Health Care System is part of VA Midwest Healthcare System (VISN 23). We pride ourselves on the quality of care we provide. VA offers an incomparable benefits package. No state income tax. A teaching hospital that provides a full range of patient care service, with state-of-the-art technology as well as education and research. Comprehensive health care is provided through primary care, tertiary care, and long-term care in the areas of medicine, surgery, psychiatry, physical medicine and rehabilitation, neurology, oncology, dentistry, geriatrics, and transitional care. You can be part of that team, helping our Veterans receive the top-qua