Job Description
Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN), Emergency Department
We are looking for top skilled LVN. Is that you?
Work location: Texas Health HEB, 1600 Hospital Parkway in Bedford, TX 76022.
Work hours: PRN (as needed), Evening Shift (3p to 3a). Rotating holiday and weekend requirements. Great growth opportunity.
Department highlights:
· The professional LVN exhibits understanding of basic human needs as well as demonstrates recognition and understanding of patient’s affiliations.
· Fast-paced, teaching environment and growth opportunity.
What You Will Do
Plan of Care and 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 and proficiently.
• Demonstrates critical thinking.
• Adheres to national safety goals in care delivery.
• Monitors patients.
Partnerships:
• 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.
Additional perks of being a Texas Health LVN:
· Delivery of high quality of patient care through education, nursing research and innovations in nursing practice.
· Strong Unit Based Council (UBC).
· A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.
Texas Health HEB is a 252-bed, acute-care, full-service hospital serving our community since 1973. Our location in the DFW mid cities area provides convenient care to the residents of Hurst, Euless, Bedford and the surrounding communities.
We specialize in women’s services, perioperative services, heart and vascular care, acute care/med surg, intermediate care/step-down, oncology and emergency medicine. Additional specialties include nuclear medicine, interventional radiology, respiratory therapy, and neuroscience care, including neurosurgery and stroke.
Texas Health HEB is ANCC Magnet Designated, Joint Commission-certified in Chest Pain (PHAC), a Primary Stroke Center, a Level III Trauma Center, Level II NICU and Level III for maternal care. We’re a top choice in North Texas for emergency services, surgical services, women’s health, cardiac care and much more.
· Learn more about our culture, benefits, and recent awards.
· Do you still have questions or concerns? Feel free to email your questions to recruitment@texashealth.org.
Qualifications
· LVN - Licensed Vocational Nurse required for Texas.
· BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly, required.
· CPI – Crisis Prevention Intervention training within 90 days of hire, required.
· 6 (six) months previous experience in an acute care hospital setting or completion of a THR residency program, required.
Schedule
Texas Health Hospital Rockwall is proud to serve the growing areas of Rockwall County, Kaufman County, Hunt County, eastern Dallas County, southern Collin County and outlying areas. Our commitment is to provide not only safe, high quality care but to combine that with compassion, understanding and personal attention. This commitment has garnered us many local and national awards, including recognition as a CMS 5 Star hospital awarded to just 10% of those hospital surveyed nationally!
Located on 33 acres in Rockwall just south of interstate 30, Texas Health Rockwall offers 60 inpatient beds for acute medical and surgical needs. The hospital continues to grow and visiting campus today you will find a Women's Imaging and Breast Center, a bariatric clinic, an ambulatory surgery center and a variety of physician practices all dedicated to our evolving community health needs. You will see that our long awaited expansion is well underway! This expansion, focused on a healthy future in this high growth area of North Texas, will double the size of our hospital adding more patient beds, a Level 2 NICU, Cardiac Cath Lab and expanding other departments including Labor & Delivery, OR and the emergency room.
What makes us different? Simply put, it is how we approach caring for you. From the focus on safety to the personal attention we provide, our patients should feel right at home at Texas Health Rockwall. As Cindy Perrin, hospital president says, "The difference is found in the heart of our facility – our staff and physicians - and in the way we love, respect and care about our community and each other. We treat our hospital like our home, treat each other like family, and treat our patients like neighbors. It's just who we are!
Texas Health Hospital Rockwall is a joint venture owned by Texas Health Resources and physicians dedicated to the community and meets the definition under federal law of physician-owned hospital.
