Night Shift LPN — Lead Nursing Care

650 DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; Lawton (OK); On-site; USD 39,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

The Lawton/Ft. Sill Veterans Home invites applications for a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) on a full-time night shift. This role provides technical nursing care under supervision, conducts vital signs, administers medications, and supports patient comfort and safety.

We seek an Oklahoma-licensed LPN with strong clinical skills, reliability, and the ability to work collaboratively with a health-care team in a government facility. Night shift differential applies.

Qualifications

• Valid Oklahoma LPN license or eNLC recognition.
• Able to perform routine nursing care and procedures.
• Excellent teamwork and communication.

Responsibilities

• Performs nursing procedures or specialized functions in accordance with knowledge, skills, and licensure.
• Participates in the evaluation of responses to interventions.
• Teaches basic nursing skills and related principles.
• Delegates nursing care tasks such as taking temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure, giving enemas, douches, and sitz baths, collecting specimens, and measuring intake and output.
• Assists in assessing, reporting, and recording health status of patients, families, and groups in a variety of settings.
• Participates in developing and implementing appropriate aspects of a plan of care.
• Administers medications as ordered.
• Reports appropriate patient information to supervisor or appropriate health team member.
• Serves as Charge Nurse on a unit, supervising staff performing medication administration and patient care.
• Performs other related duties as assigned consistent with the responsibilities of the position and agency operations.

Skills

Nursing techniques

Infection control

English proficiency

Education

LPN license – OK or eNLC

Job description

The Lawton/Ft. Sill Veterans Home invites applications for a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) on a full-time night shift. This role provides technical nursing care under supervision, conducts vital signs, administers medications, and supports patient comfort and safety.

We seek an Oklahoma-licensed LPN with strong clinical skills, reliability, and the ability to work collaboratively with a health-care team in a government facility. Night shift differential applies.