Licensed Practical Nurse-VA Community Living Center

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Affix 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Physical requirements: This position requires some degree of fitness, strength, and agility. Duties require extensive periods of standing and walking. Working with patients requires regular and recurring bending, lifting, stooping, stretching, pushing, pulling, lifting arm overhead, and similar activities. You will be asked to participate in a pre-employment examination or evaluation as part of the pre-employment process for this position.

Benefits

• 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

Pay

• Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases.
• 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.

Schedule

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.

Qualifications

• 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. (See Education section of this announcement for exceptions)
• 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.
• May qualify based on being covered by the Grandfathering Provision as described in the VA Qualification Standard for this occupation (only applicable to current VHA employees who are in this occupation and meet the criteria).