LVN PRN Float

Location: Greater Austin Region

Department: Clinic Float Pool

About the role

As a Licensed Vocational Nurse, you play a crucial role in a healthcare team. You evaluate patients, provide care, and participate in care planning, intervention, and evaluation. You focus on precision, vigilance, and patient care, noting and reporting any changes in patients' conditions to your Registered Nurse supervisor while following Texas Nursing Practice Act regulations.

Responsibilities

• Conduct thorough assessments using clinical reasoning and best practices following the LVN Scope of Practice; findings help the RN create care plans and set goals.
• Participate in evaluating nursing practice effectiveness and quality by reviewing specific nursing indicators.
• Create a caring, safe, healing, supportive, therapeutic environment.
• Manage pain, promote comfort, and minimize suffering.
• Facilitate education for patients, families, nurses, other healthcare team members, and the community.
• Work with others to implement a care plan under RN/provider direction, including team members and community resources.
• Employ strategies and utilize available resources to solve problems for patients, their families, and staff.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
• Field of study: Nursing.
• Less than one year of experience in a similar role.
• Vocational Nursing Practitioner’s License.
• Basic Life Support certification (or obtainable within the first 30 days of employment).

Skills

• Thorough knowledge of nursing and patient‑care standards and procedures.
• Understanding of rules and regulations established by certifying bodies that affect nursing care delivery.
• Familiarity with medical terminology, health‑promotion methods, risk‑reduction techniques, disease prevention and management practices, and medication effects.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Superb interpersonal skills for interacting with a diverse range of people.
• Critical‑thinking and effective problem‑solving abilities.
• Ability to identify and communicate changes in a patient’s medical condition to other nurses and healthcare providers.
• Capability to provide quality care to patients of all ages while honoring each person’s unique experiences.
• Basic computer literacy, including Microsoft Office, information security protocols, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical record maintenance, and email usage.

Benefits

• Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits.
• 401(k) savings plan with dollar‑for‑dollar match up to 5%.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• PTO accrual beginning Day 1.

Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or level.

Schedule

PRN (Weekdays 8 a.m.–5 p.m.)