Full-Time
Licensed Vocational Nurse – Medical Unit
Day Shift
Huntsville Memorial Hospital
Acute hospital and community clinics
No salary listed
Huntsville, TX, USA
In Person
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- Graduate of a school of vocational nursing.
- Current licensure as a Vocational Nurse in the State of Texas, or immediate eligibility for licensure.
- Basic Life Support certification is required within 30 days of employment and before patient care is administered independently.
- Ability to perform frequent standing, walking, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, and reaching, as well as occasional sitting, bending, squatting, climbing, kneeling, and twisting.
- Visual, hearing, and color vision acuity are required.
- Ability to work with potential exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals, moving mechanical parts, electric shock, radiant energy, communicable diseases, and blood-borne pathogens.
- Provide direct nursing care to assigned patients under the general supervision of a Registered Nurse and perform approved nursing procedures.
- Assist with the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care.
- Assist patients with daily care and activities and perform patient care procedures and treatments, including for patients with complicated nursing problems or critical conditions.
- Assist with patient safety, comfort, care, and treatment according to established standards.
- Use the nursing process to plan, provide, document, and evaluate care.
- Collect data for the Registered Nurse’s nursing assessment through ongoing and systematic data collection.
- Coordinate and plan nursing care delivery with a multidisciplinary team and administer appropriate clinical decisions in patient care.
- Collaborate with the healthcare team to develop and implement plans of care and interventions.
- Evaluate patient progress toward expected outcomes and communicate effectively with physicians and other team members.
- Provide patient and family teaching based on individual patient needs.
- Administer and reconcile medications appropriately.
- Adhere to infection-prevention protocols and maintain patient confidentiality, including appropriate handling of protected health information.
- Participate in quality improvement, service excellence, interdisciplinary program evaluation, process improvement, survey readiness, and regulatory compliance activities.
- Promote professional growth through mandatory and continuing education and competence validation.
- Serve as a preceptor, mentor, and resource to less experienced staff.
- Maintain a safe work environment and report safety concerns appropriately.
- Interact effectively with hospital staff, medical staff, patients, and visitors.
- One year of Medical-Surgical experience is preferred.
Huntsville Memorial Hospital is a nonprofit acute-care community hospital serving Huntsville, Texas, and Walker County. It provides emergency and trauma care, surgery, heart and vascular services, imaging, rehabilitation, women's health, infusion and other inpatient and outpatient specialties. Affiliated clinics expand access to primary and specialty care, including a teaching partnership with Sam Houston State University. The organization combines modern hospital capabilities with local public health education and community engagement, maintaining care close to home for area residents.
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