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Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) – Labor & Delivery

Fast-paced, high-volume L&D Department is looking for top skilled nurses. Is that you?

Work location: Texas Health Frisco, 12400 N Dallas Parkway, Frisco, Texas, 75033

Work hours: Full Time- 36 Hours, Day Shift; Four variable days per week excluding weekends - 8:00am -5:00pm

Labor & Delivery Department highlights:

· Average 120 deliveries per month

· Focused on the experience of all who enter the hospital

· Promote family-centered care

· Supportive of the patient’s vision of the Labor & Delivery process

Here’s What You Need

· Graduate of an accredited vocational nursing program required

· Surgical Tech experience helpful

· 6 Months in an acute care hospital setting or completion of THR residency program required

· Experience working in women's unit a plus

· LVN – Licensed Vocational Nurse upon hire required and

· BCLS – Basic Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly required

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 assistance 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.

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

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