Description
Introduction
Are you looking for a place to deliver excellent care patients deserve? At LewisGale Medical Center we support our colleagues in their positions. Join our Team as an LPN Progressive Care and access programs to assist with every stage of your career.
Benefits
LewisGale Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
- Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
- Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
- 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
- Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
- Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
- Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
- Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
- Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
- Colleague recognition program
- Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
- Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.
Learn more about Employee Benefits
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
Are you a continuous learner? With more than 94,000 nurses throughout HCA Healthcare, we are one of the largest employers of nurses in the United States. Education is key to excellence! As a majority owner of Galen College of Nursing, which joins Research College of Nursing and Mercy School of Nursing as educational facilities within the HCA Healthcare family, we make it easier and more affordable to gain certifications and job skills. Apply today for our LPN Progressive Care opening and continue to learn!
Job Summary and Qualifications
The Licensed Practical Nurse/Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN/LPN) delivers high quality, patient-centered care by performing a variety of delegated basic patient care services. In collaboration with the RN and other members of the care team, the LPN/LVN provides individualized, comprehensive care consistent with the scope and standards of the specialty.
What you will do in this role:
- Demonstrates strong and accurate clinical judgment and competent or expert nursing skills while following established policies including those related to confidentiality (written, verbal, electronic and digital).
- Documents effectively, succinctly, and timely according to organizational policy.
- Incorporates time management and prioritizes for efficiency and productivity.
- Follows LGMC process for dispensing of medications and narcotic control and employs clinical judgment related to medication administration.
- Adheres to hospital and unit policies.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Professionally resolves or seeks assistance for clinical problems and conflict.
- Timely collaborates with the healthcare team to report critical information or change in condition.
- Completes annual educational requirements and other specified learning activities on time.
- Demonstrates professional caring practices through sensitivity, respect, engagement, and assessing for patient and family satisfaction.
- Creates a safe and therapeutic atmosphere for patients, co-workers, other departments and customers.
- Promotes comfort and prevents suffering through presence and attentiveness. Demonstrates timely pain assessment and reassessment.
- Coaches other members of the team for professional growth and to meet the patient’s needs.
- Promotes a culture of safety.
- Works on behalf of others representing the concerns of the patient/family/community, including participation in Multidisciplinary Rounds and hourly rounds.
- Adheres to quality standards such as National Patient Safety standards and infection prevention.
- Appropriately teaches patients and families beginning with admission and continuing throughout hospitalization until the last interaction where instructions for home and/or the next provider are accurately provided.
- Following Synergy Professional Practice Model maintains and grows competency in response to the needs of patients and the organization as demonstrated by activities such as professional organizational membership or certification.
- Proficient oral and written skills.
- Demonstrates and promotes hospital and nursing Mission, Vision, Philosophy and Core Values.
- Communicates professionally with other team members and colleagues by following approved methods of communication as applicable (I Care, Scripting, SBAR, huddles, and Bedside Reporting)
- Collaborates with patients, families, and the healthcare team to coordinate care for an effective and current plan of care.
- Adheres to and promotes the regulations that safeguard the care including but not limited to: Basic Life Support (BLS), National Patient Safety Goals, American Nurses Association Code of Ethics, Standards of Care, Safe Patient Handling, and the Joint Commission Guidelines.
- Attends staff meetings and engaged in hospital affairs such as Shared Governance as demonstrated through attendance, input, innovative ideas, and volunteering to serve on unit based or hospital councils.
- Knowledge and application of the cultural foundations including Professional Practice Model.
- Demonstrates quality systems thinking through gaining and maintaining knowledge of the quality indicators including the nursing sensitive indicators.
- Promotes a work environment that is free of harassment and violence.
- A professional role model within the community when representing the organization.
What qualifications you will need:
REQUIRED Licensure:
- Licensed Practical Nurse License issued by the Department of Health Professions, Commonwealth of Virginia
- Licensed Practical Nurse with “multi-state privilege" granted to them by virtue of holding a license in one of the states participating in the Nurse Licensure Compact Agreement and who has not established permanent residency in Virginia.
REQUIRED Certifications/Credentials:
- BLS, Basic Life Support Certification.
REQUIRED Education:
- Graduate of a nursing program.
Preferred Experience:
- Two years LPN experience.
PREFERRED Certifications/Credentials:
- Specialty certification from a national accrediting organization.
- Member of a national professional nursing organization.
- ACLS certification unless specified as required above.
LewisGale Medical Center has provided quality healthcare services since 1909. We give patients access to trained physicians and advanced technology. Our 500+ bed hospital is one of the leading acute care facilities in the Salem area. We specialize in heart and vascular care—including the latest advanced technology available through our designated Heart Center—as well as orthopedics and spine care, services for mental and behavioral health and cancer care.
At LewisGale Medical Center, our care like family culture extends to our patients, our people and our community. We are committed to each other because when we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated 3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"Good people beget good people."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
If growth and continued learning is important to you, we encourage you to apply for our LPN Progressive Care opening. Our team will promptly review your application. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
