Licensed Vocational Nurse

1 week ago


Texas USA, United States Baylor Scott & White Health Full time
Job Summary

The Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) is a licensed nurse who utilizes the Baylor Scott & White Health nursing professional practice model to deliver patient care as part of the healthcare team. Using the nursing process and under appropriate supervision, the LVN performs focused assessments and participates in care planning, interventions, and evaluations.

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 RN in developing a plan of care and formulation of 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 delicate indicators.
  • Caring Practices: Creates an attentive, helpful, safe, and therapeutic environment for patients, families, and staff. Participates in management of both fervid and physical pain with the aim of promoting relief 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 patients and families. 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 healthcare team, and community throughout the delivery of care.
  • Partnership: Under the direction of RN/provider, works collaboratively and interdependently with colleagues and community to implement an integrated plan of care. Open and delicate 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 life-long learning through continuing education, networking with professional colleagues, membership and involvement in professional nursing organizations, self-study, professional reading, certification, and seeking advance degrees.
Key Success Factors
  • Knowledge and Expertise: Knowledge and expertise of nursing and patient care standards and procedures.
  • Knowledge of Laws and Regulations: 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: Knowledge of medical terminology; methods 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: Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights.
  • Communication Skills: Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly, both verbally and in writing.
  • Social Skills: Social skills to interact with a wide-range of constituencies.
  • Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills: Must have critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
  • Observation and Communication Skills: Ability to observe changes in the medical condition of patients and effectively communicate these changes to other nursing staff members and physicians/providers.
  • Age-Specific Care: Ability to provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care to all patients through the nursing process and standards of nursing practice with care and respect for the diversity of human experience.
  • Computer Skills: General computer skills, including but not limited to: Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical documentation, and email.


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