St. Luke's Health - Memorial - Lufkin·Lufkin, Texas
Provide direct patient care by assessing conditions, administering medications, and performing prescribed treatments. Collaborate with RNs and physicians to implement individualized care plans and manage patient flow through admissions and discharges.
Where You’ll Work St.
Luke’s Health – Memorial Lufkin is a 279 bed facility and member of CommonSpirit Health, a national nonprofit health system.
Serving East Texas, St.
Luke's Health-Memorial Lufkin provides more than a quarter of a million patient services annually and contributes millions of dollars in local charity care and community support.
We’re the area’s first Joint Commission Certified Primary Stroke Center, with board-certified neurologists and neurosurgeons offering full-spectrum stroke care.
Nationally recognized as a HealthCare Center of Excellence, St.
Luke's Health-Memorial Lufkin offers compassionate, comprehensive health care, including off-campus rehab and outpatient facilities and services.
In addition to its large emergency department, there are 32 private rooms, dedicated imaging and OBGYN, wound care, infusion and lab services.
Job Summary and Responsibilities As our Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN), you will provide vital direct patient care, significantly contributing to patient well-being and recovery as an integral part of our compassionate healthcare team.Every day, you will assess patient conditions, administer medications, perform prescribed treatments, and meticulously document care.
You will collaborate with RNs and physicians to implement individualized care plans, ensuring a seamless and high-quality patient experience.To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate exceptional clinical skills, a strong commitment to patient safety, and excellent communication.
Your compassionate demeanor, attention to detail, and ability to prioritize in a fast-paced environment are essential.
Provides skilled patient care according to established nursing standards to meet social, psychological, developmental and spiritual needs of the patient as assigned by the accountable RN.
Documents and records pertinent information related to patient demographics, graphic data and nursing interventions performed as indicated by unit, service, and Health Systems’ policies.
Provides indirect patient care.
Assists in the admission, transfer, and discharge process; Performs housekeeping Functions as delegated, acts as a runner, transporter.
Consistently documents in the patient and unit records, according to written health system standards of care, in order to meet legal and quality patient care requirements.
All documentation is to be neat and legible, and completed in a timely manner.
Demonstrates commitment to continuum of care by optimizing patient flow: Updates assigned bed status, facilitates patient transfer and discharge, Assists other departmental personnel when picking up/returning patients, assisting to transport patients as needed, and facilitating new/transfer patient to unit.
Job Requirements Required Vocational School Grad Nursing, upon hire Licensed Vocational Nurse: TX, upon hire and Basic Life Support - CPR, within 14 - days
Must be a graduate of a vocational nursing school and hold a valid Texas Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) license. Basic Life Support (BLS) CPR certification is required within 14 days of hire.
Market context
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