Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) - Wound Care Clinic

Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) - Wound Care Clinic

Fast-paced, high-volume Clinic Wound Care Department is looking for top skilled nurses. Is that you?

Work location: Texas Health Dallas, 8200 Walnut Hill Lane, Dallas, TX 75231

Work hours: PRN; Clinic Hours 0800-1630

Wound Care Clinic Department Highlights:

• We're also recognized as a Magnet facility for excellence in nursing services. Our level of experience is matched only by our compassion for our patients.

Here's What You Need

• Graduate of an accredited vocational nursing program required
• Wound care experience strongly preferred
• Experience in a hospital setting a plus
• LVN - Licensed Vocational Nurse upon hire required and
• BCLS - Basic Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly required

Qualifications - External

What You Will Do

Plan of Care, Technical Skills:

• Collaborates with team to facilitate hourly rounding and initiates action to meet patient and/or significant others need for information.
• Takes action to reduce/eliminate patient risks.
• Collects data and reports significant findings to RN.
• Safely administers medication in accordance with medication administration guidelines.
• Uses nursing model to obtain adequate data to initiate, implement, and revise plan of care to meet patient, physician, and family needs.
• Individualizes care measures to reflect specific patient population.
• Performs technical procedures safely, proficiently.
• Demonstrates critical thinking.
• Adheres to national safety goals in care delivery.
• Monitor's patients.

Personal Accountability:

• Identifies realistic and measurable annual goals for professional nursing development.
• Serves as patient advocate.
• Complies with personnel policies, i.e., attendance policies, ID badge, dress code, LVN Scope of Practice.
• Communicates per department expectations.
• Recognizes and promptly communicates ethical and legal concerns through established channels of communication.
• Takes responsibility in continuing to develop own professional nursing knowledge and skills.
• Reports unsafe conditions and equipment in proper/timely manner.

Partnership:

• Works in partnership with peers, other disciplines, and unlicensed assistive personnel.
• Actively participates in formal and informal teaching and evaluation to strengthen clinical competence of self and team members.
• Uses Unit Based Council structure.
• Flexible with scheduling to help meet departmental/patient needs.
• Adapts to changes in workload assignment to meet changing needs of the individual patient or the unit.

Continuous Improvement:

• Assists in the identification of ineffective and costly processes and takes action to improve those processes.
• In collaboration with RN incorporates evidence-based practice and research to monitor and continuously impact outcomes.
• Actively participates in unit-based programs.

Additional perks of being a Texas Health Nurse

• Benefits include 401k, PTO, medical, dental, Paid Parental Leave, flex spending, tuition reimbursement, student Loan repayment 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.
• Explore our Texas Health careers site for info like Benefits, Job Listings by Category, recent Awards we've won and more.

Do you still have questions or concerns? Feel free to email your questions to recruitment@texashealth.org.

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