Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - Pediatric Clinic Float Pool ($10,000 Sign-On Bonus)
Company: Vanderbilt Health
Location: Nashville
Posted on: March 20, 2023
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(LPN) - Pediatric Clinic Float Pool ($10,000 Sign-On Bonus)
(2300011)Job Description Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - Pediatric
Clinic Float Pool ($10,000 Sign-On Bonus)-2300011Job: LPNPrimary
Location: TN-Nashville-DOT - VCH Doctor's Office TowerOrganization:
CHOC-Float Pool 309066Description Licensed Practical Nurse
Pediatric Clinic Float Pool
$10,000 Sign-On Bonus
Job Summary:
The float pool LPN supports the licensed healthcare team members in
the provision of patient care to include direct patient care,
providing healthcare information to patients/families, and
following established plan of care. All patient care activities are
undertaken with the delegation/supervision of a licensed
professional in accordance with VUMC standards and licensure
regulations.
Position Shift:
Qualifications:
1 year relevant experience
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Department Summary:
The Children's Hospital Outpatient Clinic Float Pool at Monroe
Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt is a highly skilled
team that provides focused care for pediatric patients in our
outpatient clinic settings. A typical shift for our LPN-2 float
staff includes working with a vast array of PEDIATRIC patient
populations on campus and in offsite regional clinics. One shift
may be in pediatric primary care, while the next shift could be in
a specialty service, like peds general surgery, pediatric
orthopedics, pediatric cardiology, and many others. Our float pool
staff offer a diversity of experience and are always willing to
share their knowledge and collaborate as a team member in all
clinics. The CHOC FP LPN TEAM demonstrate a vital role during
patient and family encounters and responsible for providing
excellent care and a positive patient and family experience.
Experience and continuous training provide us the specialized
skills needed to care for a wide variety of pediatric patients.
Key Responsibilities:
Partners with preceptor and the healthcare team by following
established plan of care to ensure patient progress for effective
outcomes.
Support plans to promote health and a safe and healthy
environment.
The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position
and additional duties may be assigned in preparation for the LPN
role and within the GPN scope of practice.
Sign-On Bonus Requirements:
The sign-on bonus is not applicable to current VUMC staff or former
staff who have worked for VUMC in the past twelve months.
Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:
Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global
crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a
community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the
simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your
expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your
abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity
is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an
inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and
where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is
sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are
part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional
pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough
yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness
through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and
research.
Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for
excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive
environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and to the
principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action.
EOE/AA/Women/Minority/Vets/Disabled
Our Nursing Philosophy:
We believe highly skilled and specialized nursing care is essential
to Vanderbilt University Medical Center's mission of quality in
patient care, education, and research. We believe nursing is an
applied art and science focused on helping people, families and
communities reach excellent health and well-being.
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Basic Qualifications Graduate of an approved discipline specific
program (or equivalent experience) and 1 year relevant
experience
Licensure, Certification, and/or Registration (LCR):
Basic Life Support (BLS)
Additional Qualification Information:
Physical Requirements/Strengths needed & Physical Demands:
Movement
Occasional: Lifting over 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects from
one level to another, includes upward pulling over 35 lbs, with
help of coworkers or assistive device
Occasional: Carrying under 35 lbs: Transporting an object holding
in hands, arms or shoulders, with help of coworkers or assistive
device.
Occasional: Bending/Stooping: Trunk bending downward and forward by
bending spine at waist requiring full use of lower extremities and
back muscles
Occasional: Climbing: Ascending or descending stairs/ramps using
feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
Occasional: Kneeling:Bending legs at knees to come to rest on knee
or knees.
Occasional: Crouching/Squatting: Bending body downward and forward
by bending legs and spine.Reaching above shoulders: Extending arms
in any direction above shoulders.
Occasional: Reaching above shoulders: Extending arms in any
direction above shoulders.
Frequent: Standing: Remaining on one's feet without moving.
Frequent: Walking: Moving about on foot.
Frequent: Lifting under 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects under
35 lbs from one level to another
Frequent: Push/Pull: Exerting force to move objects away from or
toward.
Frequent: Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent
falling when walking, standing, crouching or maneuvering self,
patient and equipment simultaneously while working in large and
small spaces
Frequent: Reaching below shoulders: Extending arms in any direction
below shoulders.
Frequent: Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, turning or
otherwise working with hand or hands.
Frequent: Fingering: Picking, pinching, gripping, working primarily
with fingers requiring fine manipulation.
Frequent: Bimanual Dexterity: Requiring the use of both hands.
Sensory
Continuous: Auditory: Perceiving the variances of sounds, tones and
pitches and able to focus on single source of auditory
information
Continuous: Vision: Clarity of near vision at 20 inches or less and
far vision at 20 feet or more with depth perception, peripheral
vision, color vision.
Continuous: Smell: Ability to detect and identify odors.
Continuous: Feeling: Ability to perceive size, shape, temperature,
texture by touch with fingertips.
Environmental Conditions
Frequent: Pathogens: Risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens and
other contagious illnesses.
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Discover Vanderbilt Health: Located in Nashville, TN, and operating
at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care,
Vanderbilt Health is a community of individuals who come to work
each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place
where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and
your abilities challenged. It is a place where diversity - of
culture, thinking, learning and leading - is sought and celebrated.
It is a place where employees know they are part of something that
is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and
never settle for what was good enough yesterday.
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