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Licensed Practical Nurse
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
This is an Open Continuous Announcement and will remain open until June 8, 2026. The initial cut-off date for referral of eligible applications will be May 20, 2026. Eligible applications received after that date will be referred at regular intervals on an as-needed basis until positions are filled. The Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) is assigned to the Outpatient Nursing Service at the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, WA.
What You'll Do
- →VA Careers - Licensed Practical Nurse: https://youtube.com/embed/Ae85IP1Oiz4 Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional The PACT LPN is responsible for observing, recording and reporting changes in the patient's condition, as well as assisting in the development and revision of the patient-driven holistic care plan for life.
- →The LPN demonstrates active collaboration and communication with the Core Team (Patient, Primary Care Provider, RN Care Manager and the Clerical Associate) and the Expanded Team (family/caregiver, internal and community based services involved in providing care to the patient).
- →The LPN must have the ability to react to situations in accordance with established policies and procedures, and ability to appropriately use this knowledge to work effectively with a wide range of patients.
- →Additional functions include: Ongoing, continuous care of one or more assigned panel(s) of Veterans.
- →Utilizing all available tools, such as registries, to enable effective and efficient identification and intervention of individual patients and cohorts.
- →Ensuring appropriate evaluation and access is provided to patients assigned to the patient panel.
- →Functioning at the full extent of the team member relevant clinical privileges, credentials, scopes of practice, elements of practice, certification, functional statement, position description, or other VHA or local facility approved documentation of competency.
- →Participating in team performance improvement and sustainment activities to optimize team efficiency and care delivery to patients.
- →Implementing primary care operations management processes, as appropriate.
- →Managing communications and facilitating safe transitions of patients between the PACT site of care and other health care settings, using informal and formal communication methods, as appropriate.
- →Providing health education and health coaching on wellness, disease prevention, chronic care management, and self-management skills to patients and personal support persons, commensurate with the documented expertise or professional training of the PACT member.
- →Engaging patients in using health care, encouraging patients to engage personal support persons, receiving input from patients and personal support persons regarding VA care.
- →Using formal and informal communications that are respectful, effective, timely, and bidirectional with all team members (including the patient and personal support persons) to convey significant, clinically relevant information for the care of the patient.
- →Collaborating with informatics technology staff to develop and implement systematized, electronically supported, standardized, tools to support PACT care delivery processes (e. g. , pre-visit reminder calls, post-hospitalization follow-up calls, recall scheduling procedures, new patient orientation, disease registries and primary care protocols for chronic disease management).
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 504a6fb7-d173-4d16-be27-d6a0f392c01a
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