Job Description
Job Description
Licensed Vocational Nurse
Bring your passion to Texas Health so we are Better + Together
Work location: 1280 S Main Street - Suite 100 Grapevine, TX 76051
Work hours: Full-time; 40 hours weekly; Monday thru Friday (7:30a - 5:00p) ... with 1/2 day off per week
Clinic Highlights:
- Strong teamwork and collaboration
- Opportunity for Growth
- Join a family-oriented team working towards making healthcare more accessible, integrated, and reliable
Here’s What You Need
- High School Diploma or equivalent (REQUIRED)
- LVN - Licensed Vocational Nurse Upon Hire (REQUIRED)
- Accredited School of Practical Nursing Program (REQUIRED)
- Willing to be a Triage Nurse (take phone calls and patient messages; refiling maintenance medications) (PREFERRED)
- Bilingual - English/Spanish (PREFERRED)
- ACLS or BCLS (required upon hire)
- Knowledge of basic nursing processes and understanding of healthcare technology, equipment, and supplies
- Knowledge of state law on nursing care, nurse practice guidelines, and clinic policies and procedures
- Ability to effectively communicate to staff and patients
- Demonstrate sound judgment and composure
- Ability to take appropriate action in questionable or emergency situations
- Maintain a positive, caring attitude towards staff and patients
- Possess a strong work ethic and a high level of professionalism
- Efficient time management skills
What You Will Do
- Delivers care to patients utilizing the LVN Process
- Triage patient calls and communicates with the provider
- Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate comprehensive care provided to selected patient populations and their families.
- Performs specific nursing care as it relates to specialty of cardiology.
- Collects patient data such as vital signs, notes how the patient looks and acts or responds to stimuli and reports this information accordingly.
- Prepares patient records and files using established medical record forms/automated systems and documentation practices.
- Administers certain prescribed medications and monitors and documents treatment progress and patient response.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Additional perks of being a Texas Health employee
- Benefits include 401k, PTO, medical, dental, Paid Parental Leave, flex spending, tuition reimbursement, Student Loan Repayment Program as well as several other benefits.
- Delivery of high quality of patient care through nursing education, nursing research and innovations in nursing practice.
- Strong Unit Based Council (UBC).
- A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.
Learn more about our culture, benefits, and recent awards.
Entity Highlights:
Texas Health Physicians Group includes more than 1,000 physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants dedicated to providing quality, patient-safe care at more than 240 offices located throughout the DFW Metroplex.
THPG members are active in group governance and serve on multiple committees and councils. Ongoing Texas Health initiatives, like the Diversity Action Council and Living the Promise, have helped to create an inclusive, supportive, people-first, excellence-driven culture and workplace, making THPG a great place to work.
If you’re ready to join us in our mission to improve the health of our community, then let’s show the world how we’re even better together!
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Grapevine, TX |
| Industry | Healthcare Services |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1997 |
| Website | https://www.texashealth.org/ |
Benefits
Paid Sick Days, Parking, Prescription Drug Coverage, Professional Development, 401K, Employee Referral Program, Flexible Spending Accounts, Employee Events, Tuition Reimbursement, Health Care on Site, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
About Company
We're Texas Health Resources. Our corporate mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities we serve. Texas Health Resources is one of the largest faith-based, nonprofit health care delivery systems in America. We're comprised of 14 hospitals under the names Texas Health Harris Methodist, Texas Health Arlington Memorial and Texas Health Presbyterian, serving more than 6.3 million people in 29 counties across north central Texas with 2,624 available hospital beds. We employ 18,250 people, and have more than 3,700 physicians with active staff privileges at our hospitals.
Skills
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)unmatched
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS)unmatched
- Cardiologyunmatched
- Clinical Assessmentunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Community Healthunmatched
- Data Collectionunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- English Languageunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Licensed Practical Nurse/Licensed Vocational Nurseunmatched
- Medical Recordsunmatched
- Medication Administrationunmatched
- Medicationsunmatched
- Multilingualunmatched
- Nursingunmatched
- Patient Assessmentunmatched
- Patient Careunmatched
- Prescription Drugsunmatched
- Spanish Languageunmatched
- State Laws and Regulationsunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Telephone Triageunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Triage Nursingunmatched
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