WDVA Licensed Practical Nurse 2, On-Call, Washington Veterans Home

Licensed Practical Nurse 2

The Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs (WDVA) is excited to announce we are now accepting applications for on-call Licensed Practical Nurses 2 at the Washington Veterans Home!

At the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs, we are passionate about our mission of "Serving Those Who Served." As a national leader in our advocacy for more than 500,000 Veterans and their family members, we strive to connect them to earned benefits as well as innovative programs focused on their overall health and wellness. In addition, we provide critical community services through a variety of programs, and at our four State Veterans Homes located in Orting, Port Orchard, Spokane, and Walla Walla. These locations provide Medicare and Medicaid nursing home care to Veterans, including, in some instances, their spouses, widows, or Gold Star Families.

As a Licensed Practical Nurse 2, you will assist in the delivery of nursing and nursing-related care to residents of the Washington Veterans Home, assisting or supervising assigned residents with activities of daily living, monitoring, and recording all aspects of care.

Some of what you will do :

• Prepare, carry out, evaluate, and revise treatment plans for individual residents based on personal observations and recommendations of physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and / or other nurses.
• Pass medications and administer, monitor, and record treatments, assess resident condition (including skin assessment), and promote resident participation in recreational activities.
• Suction patients, administer oxygen, catheterization, irrigation; administer IV solutions, colostomy and trach care; maintain gastric feeding tubes and pumps.
• Process physician orders.
• Assist with routine rehabilitative and maintenance care.
• Audit MDS charting and flow sheets of coworkers on shift.
• Provide input to supervisors on the performance of nursing assistants.
• Respond to call lights, internal and external emergencies, and facility codes; remedy situations within scope and alert RNs / LPNs of alarms sounding.
• And more!

Required :

Preferred / Desired :

Special Requirements :

Applicants wishing to claim Veterans Preference should attach a copy of their DD-214 (Member 4 copy), NGB 22, or signed verification of service letter from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to their application. Please blackout any personally identifiable data such as social security numbers.