Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) BU Med Surg – Full Time – Days

Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) BU Med Surg – Full Time – Days

Texas Health HEB – Bedford BU Med Surg Department is looking for a top skilled Licensed Vocational Nurse.  Is that you?

Work location: Texas Health HEB 1600 Hospital Parkway TX 76022

Work hours:  Full Time – Nights 

Department Highlights

·       Team based environment.

·       Workplace culture 2^nd to none

·       We operate on lean principles and rely heavily on a team atmosphere and individual performance

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Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Hurst-Euless-Bedford is a 296-bed, acute-care facility serving Northeast Tarrant County since 1973. With more than 550 physicians on its medical staff, hospital services include outpatient surgery, women’s services, a Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a dedicated oncology unit and cardiac rehabilitation. Texas Health HEB recently received a dual accreditation as a Cycle IV Chest Pain Center and Heart Failure Center by the Society of Chest Pain Centers, is certified as a Primary Stroke Center and a designated “Baby Friendly” facility by WHO and UNICEF. Our location brings the best of suburban living, offering you the benefits of convenience and solid career opportunities.

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, proficie ntly. 
•    Demonstrates critical thinking. 
•    Adheres to national safety goals in care delivery. 
•    Monitors patients. 
•    PROFESSIONAL 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 communicati on. 
•    Takes responsibility in continuing to develop own professional nursing knowledge and skills. 
•    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.