LVN FT Days

Baylor Scott & White Health

Marble Falls (TX)

On-site

USD 40,000 - 55,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits

401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%

Tuition Reimbursement

PTO accrual beginning Day 1

Job summary

A health care organization in Marble Falls is seeking a Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) to deliver patient care using the BSWH nursing practice model. This entry-level full-time position involves conducting assessments, collaborating with healthcare teams, and ensuring patient safety. Candidates must possess a high school diploma, a valid LVN license, and be able to provide compassionate care. Benefits include health coverage, a 401(k) matching plan, and tuition reimbursement from day one.

Qualifications

Less than 1 year of experience as a nurse.
License as a Practical/Vocational Nurse (LVN) required.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required within 30 days of hire.

Responsibilities

Conduct focused assessments according to clinical standards.
Create supportive, safe environments for patients and families.
Collaborate with healthcare team members under RN direction.

Skills

Clinical judgment

Interpersonal skills

Critical thinking

Communication

Education

H.S. Diploma/GED Equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Electronic medical documentation

Job description

Job Summary

The Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) is a licensed nurse who uses the BSWH nursing professional practice model to deliver patient care as part of the health care team. Using the nursing process and under appropriate supervision, the LVN performs focused assessments and participates in care planning, interventions and evaluations. The LVN documents and reports assessment information and changes in patient condition to the supervising RN in accordance with the Texas Nursing Practice Act (NPA).

Essential Functions Of The Role

Clinical Judgment: Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate focused assessments according to practice standards and LVN scope of practice. Reports data to assist the RN in developing a plan of care and formulating goals/outcomes for the patient and family needs.
Clinical Inquiry: Participates in evaluating the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including, but not limited to, nursing-sensitive indicators.
Caring Practices: Creates a compassionate, supportive, safe and therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff. Participates in the management of both emotional and physical pain with the aim of promoting comfort and healing and preventing unnecessary suffering.
Response to Diversity: Recognizes, appreciates and incorporates a patient’s and family’s unique differences—such as culture, spiritual beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic status, age and values—into an individualized plan of care.
Advocacy and Moral Agency: Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity and rights of patient and family. Identifies, reports and participates in resolving ethical and clinical concerns.
Facilitation of Learning: Facilitates learning for patients and families, nursing staff, other members of the health care team and community throughout the delivery of care.
Collaboration: Under the direction of RN/provider, works collaboratively and interdependently with colleagues and community to implement an integrated plan of care. Open and sensitive to all team members’ unique contributions.
Systems Thinking: Participates in using strategies and available resources for problem-solving for patients, family and staff.
Professionalism: Identifies personal goals and seeks opportunities to pursue lifelong learning through continuing education, networking with professional colleagues, membership and involvement in professional nursing organizations, self‑study, professional reading, certification and seeking advanced degrees.

Key Success Factors

Knowledge and understanding of nursing and patient care standards and procedures.
Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations; standards and guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and department/unit standards, protocols, policies and procedures governing the provision of nursing care applicable to the area of assignment.
Knowledge of medical terminology; principles and practices of health promotion, risk reduction, illness and disease prevention and management; medications and drugs, common dosages, their physical and physiological effects, and possible adverse reactions.
Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights.
Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly, both verbally and in writing.
Interpersonal skills to interact with a wide range of constituencies.
Must have critical thinking and problem‑solving skills.
Ability to observe changes in the medical condition of patients and effectively communicate these changes to other nursing staff members and physicians/providers.
Ability to provide age‑specific, quality, patient‑centered care to all patients through the nursing process and standards of nursing practice with sensitivity and respect for the diversity of human experience.
General computer skills, including but not limited to: Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical documentation, and e‑mail.

Benefits