Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN)

We need to output HTML fragment with headings

for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID/requisition numbers as headings; we can fold minor metadata into short

or drop it. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, etc. Preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Content: Brief Description: The Harris Center ... looking for LVN ... description. "Your Role In Action" includes duties. Then "Education" section: What qualifications will you need: Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) from one year college "Experience": 1 year (12 months) of licensed nursing experience (not including clinical hours required for education) preferred. "Required Knowledge, Skills And Abilities": list. "What We Have To Offer": benefits. "What Else You Should Know": This posting is associated with position 64020. The position will work only 2 days a week. "About Us": description of organization. We need sections: About the role (maybe summary), Responsibilities (duties), Requirements (education/experience?), Qualifications (maybe license?), Skills (knowledge, skills, abilities), Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections have content. - About the role: Could be the brief description and "Your Role In Action" summary? Probably we can put a brief description under About the role. - Responsibilities: The duties listed under "Your Role In Action": uses nursing process, performs technical nursing skills, performs diagnostic tests, administers meds, sets up equipment, applies therapeutic treatments, documents info, informs/educates consumers/family, provides nursing care focusing on safety, assigns tasks/supervises other LVNs/unlicensed personnel, demonstrates behaviors promoting positive outcomes, utilizes problem-solving approach, provides health education to non-licensed staff, provides ethical nursing care, performs related work as assigned, adapts to changing work requirements, complies with agency policies etc. We need to list as

• . - Requirements: maybe education and experience? The posting has Education and Experience sections. Could combine into Requirements. - Qualifications: maybe license? Actually LVN license is required. Could be under Qualifications. - Skills: Required Knowledge, Skills And Abilities list. - Benefits: What We Have To Offer. - Pay: Not mentioned explicitly (no salary). So we should NOT create Pay section. - Schedule: The posting says "The position will work only 2 days a week." That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section. Also we have "About Us" description of organization; maybe could be part of About the role? But we could also include as a separate section? The instruction says use headings for those specific categories; we can include About the role (maybe includes brief description and About Us?). But we need to avoid filler. The About Us is substantive; maybe we can include under About the role or maybe a separate section like "About the Organization" but not in list. Since only allowed headings are those listed, we could put About the role to include both brief description and About Us. Or we could put About the role as brief description and maybe not include About Us elsewhere. But we need to preserve all substantive info; we can include About Us inside About the role section as a paragraph. Thus:

  About the role

  Brief description paragraph + About Us paragraph.

  But we need to avoid duplication. Let's craft: About the role: The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD is looking for a Licensed Vocational Nurse to join our team. The LVN will practice under the direction/supervision of a Registered Nurse/Physician. The LVN will assist in the determination of predictable healthcare needs of consumers, will perform nursing services as assigned and within the scope of practice for the Licensed Vocational Nurse under the Texas Nurse Practice Act. Duties will be assigned based on level of training, education, experience and licensure. Then also include About Us: The Harris Center is the state-designated Local Mental Health Authority and Local Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) Authority serving Harris County, Texas. As the largest behavioral and developmental disability care center in Texas, The Harris Center provides care to over 90,000 people and has an annual budget of over $300 million. As part of its mission to transform the lives of people with behavioral health and IDD needs in the third largest county in the United States, The Harris Center provides a full continuum of services at 80 different sites across Harris County. In addition, services are provided in more than 40 different languages as well as sign language in order to better serve what is one of the largest communities in the nation. By utilizing the unique expertise of its more than 2,500 employees, The Harris Center is committed to meeting the behavioral health and IDD needs of Harris County residents and giving them hope to live to their fullest potential. We can combine into one

  or two

  s. Probably two paragraphs. Responsibilities: list duties. Requirements: Education and Experience. Education: Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) from one year college. Experience: 1 year (12 months) of licensed nursing experience (not including clinical hours required for education) preferred. We could combine into Requirements section with two

  or

  . Qualifications: maybe LVN license? Actually that's same as education. Could be "Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) from one year college" is qualification. But we already used that. Maybe Qualifications could be "Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) license" but we don't have separate. Could skip Qualifications if redundant. But we need to follow instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine Education and Experience into Requirements, and maybe Qualifications not needed. But we need to include Skills section for knowledge, skills, abilities. Benefits: list benefits. Schedule: The position will work only 2 days a week. We should not include Pay. Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like "What Else You Should Know" includes position ID and schedule; we extracted schedule; position ID we can drop or fold into short p? The instruction: do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

  or drop it. So we could include position ID in a short paragraph maybe under About the role or elsewhere. But we can drop it as not essential. Probably drop. Now produce HTML fragment. Let's craft:

  About the role

  The Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD (“The HARRIS CENTER”) is looking for a Licensed Vocational Nurse to join our team. The LVN will practice under the direction/supervision of a Registered Nurse/Physician. The LVN will assist in the determination of predictable healthcare needs of consumers, will perform nursing services as assigned and within the scope of practice for the Licensed Vocational Nurse under the Texas Nurse Practice Act. Duties will be assigned based on level of training, education, experience and licensure.

  The Harris Center is the state-designated Local Mental Health Authority and Local Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IDD) Authority serving Harris County, Texas. As the largest behavioral and developmental disability care center in Texas, The Harris Center provides care to over 90,000 people and has an annual budget of over $300 million. As part of its mission to transform the lives of people with behavioral health and IDD needs in the third largest county in the United States, The Harris Center provides a full continuum of services at 80 different sites across Harris County. In addition, services are provided in more than 40 different languages as well as sign language in order to better serve what is one of the largest communities in the nation. By utilizing the unique expertise of its more than 2,500 employees, The Harris Center is committed to meeting the behavioral health and IDD needs of Harris County residents and giving them hope to live to their fullest potential.

  Responsibilities

  • Utilizes a four-step systematic process (nursing process) to deliver services: assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation.
  • Performs technical nursing skills within the scope of practice for a LVN and in accordance with Agency policies and procedures for individual and/or multiple consumer assignments.
  • Performs diagnostic tests, administers medications, sets up equipment and applies therapeutic treatments.
  • Documents relevant information regarding nursing care in consumer records, charts and reports.
  • Documents observations of consumer signs, symptoms, test results, behaviors and response to medications and treatments.
  • Complies with established Agency policies and procedures and accrediting/regulatory bodies and performance contract requirements for documentation.
  • Informs, explains and educates consumers and family members regarding medications, relevant treatment information, and disease processes.
  • Provides pertinent health information at an appropriate level and includes meaningful literature to support understanding.
  • Provides nursing care with a focus on consumer, environmental and technical safety.
  • Assigns specific tasks, activities and functions and maintains appropriate supervision of other LVN’s and unlicensed personnel in structured health care settings for consumers with predictable health care needs in accordance with program design and structure.
  • Demonstrates behaviors that promote development of positive outcomes in relation to the practice of vocational nursing.
  • Utilizes a problem-solving approach as the basis for decision making in practice, including reporting relevant information to supervising Registered Nurse or Physician.
  • Provides health education, disease process and medication information regarding consumer health care needs to non-licensed staff.
  • Provides ethical nursing care in a confidential, caring manner.
  • Performs related work as assigned.
  • Adapts to changing work requirements.
  • Complies with agency policies and procedures accrediting/regulatory bodies and performance contract documentation requirements.

  Requirements

  Education: Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) from one year college.

  Experience: 1 year (12 months) of licensed nursing experience (not including clinical hours required for education) preferred.

  Skills

  • Mental health/ behavioral health/ IDD experience preferred.
  • Knowledge of Texas Board of Nurse Examiners Nurse Practice Act and nursing care standards of practice.
  • Knowledge of applicable pharmacy rules and regulations.
  • Knowledge of and ability to apply crisis intervention techniques.
  • Understanding of Standard Precautions and infection control procedures for dealing with sharp instruments, needles, blood and body fluids.
  • Understanding of good body mechanics to avoid injury.
  • Effective communication skills (verbal and written).
  • Effective data collection skills.
  • Positive interpersonal skills.
  • Good organizational skills with the ability to prioritize.
  • Demonstrates initiative and self-direction.
  • Able to coordinate well with others and work effectively as a team member.
  • Able to use all related medical equipment, machines, monitors and computer applications.
  • Demonstrates strong time management skills.
  • Able to complete task and assignments independently.
  • Demonstrates clinically sound decision making.

  Benefits

  • Competitive salary.
  • Robust retirement plan with company matching.
  • Prior service credit that accelerates Paid Time Off accrual.
  • Cell phone discounts.
  • Exclusive entertainment deals through Tickets at Work.
  • Free Headspace subscription for mental wellness.
  • Employee Assistance Program.
  • Student loan forgiveness programs (eligible as a qualifying entity).

  Schedule