LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE 2

About the role

The Nevada Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS) is recruiting for a Licensed Practical Nurse 2 to be located in Sparks, NV. This is a full-time position that includes a variable work agreement with overtime after 40 hours per week. This position requires work in the evenings and/or weekend hours.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional nursing care to adolescents, medication management and administering medications as prescribed by the agency psychiatrist and monitoring for side effects.
• Maintain client safety, coordinating admissions to acute care facilities if youth safety is compromised, and coordinating youth admission and discharges.
• Complete referrals, participate in ongoing professional development trainings, provide quality assurance, and work in the milieu monitoring daily activities while providing psycho-social rehabilitative services.

Requirements

• Current license to practice as a Licensed Practical Nurse in Nevada.
• Two years of experience as a Licensed Practical Nurse, one year of which was providing nursing care to inmates in a correctional setting, individuals with mental illness and/or developmental disabilities, or patients in a hospital or skilled nursing facility.

Qualifications

This class specification lists the major knowledge, skills and abilities of the job and is not all inclusive. Incumbent(s) will be expected to have knowledge, skills and abilities from a previous level.

Skills

Working knowledge of: theory and practice of practical nursing as applied to patients in a mental health, developmental disabilities, correctional setting, or skilled nursing facility; nursing principles and therapeutic interventions utilized in nursing care of individuals with chronic or acute conditions or mental illness and/or developmental disabilities; commonly prescribed medications used to treat chronic and/or acute conditions; quality assurance compliance activities including applicable regulatory standards; routine laboratory tests and diagnostic procedures; operation and use of standard medical equipment; theory and practices of practical nursing and common nursing techniques; methods and techniques used in the personal care of patients; operation and use of standard medical equipment; documentation process; commonly prescribed medications and possible side effects; quality assurance compliance activities including applicable regulatory standards.

Benefits

Health Insurance: Medical, dental, life, and disability insurance programs for employees and their dependents/family are offered through the Public Employees’ Benefits Program (PEBP).

Vacation: Accrual of three weeks of annual leave each year.

Sick Leave: Accrual of three weeks of sick leave each year.

Holidays: 12 paid holidays per year.

Retirement: Participation in the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System (PERS).

Employees do not contribute to Social Security but will contribute to PERS if their position is at 50% or more full-time equivalency.

Deferred Compensation: The State offers a voluntary Deferred Compensation Program.

No Nevada state income tax.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness: Eligible due to public sector employment.

Longevity Payments Eligibility: Employees who have received a performance rating of “standard” or better and have completed eight (8) or more years of continuous service are eligible for longevity pay.

Additional benefits may apply to employees covered under a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), depending on their designated bargaining unit.

For more information, visit the Labor Relations Unit (LRU).

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• Nevada Day
• Family Day
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