Procedural Licensed Practical Nurse - Interventional Pain Clinic - 100 Oaks

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

11d•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is seeking a Procedural Licensed Practical Nurse for its Interventional Pain Clinic. This role requires spending 50% or more of the time supporting clinic procedures within the scope of licensure. Responsibilities include independently supporting departmental clinic-based procedures, performing necessary documentation, setting up sterile fields, preparing and cleaning procedure rooms, and managing the sterilization/high-level disinfection of procedural instruments. The nurse will also implement principles of decontamination and standard precautions, and provide independent clinical procedural patient care. The position involves a M-F schedule with 4x10 hour shifts and requires the ability to handle a large workflow. Experience in inpatient/outpatient procedures is a plus, and phlebotomy skills are highly desirable.

Requirements

LIC-Licensed Practical Nurse - Tennessee
Relevant Work Experience
Graduate of an approved discipline specific program
Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate patient documentation in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
Contributes to the nursing assessment by collecting, reporting, and recording objective and subjective data in an accurate and timely manner.
Participates in the development of the plan of care in consultation with the licensed healthcare team.
Demonstrates ability to anticipate resource needs, identify distinct tasks, set priorities, schedule activities, meet deadlines, and organize work within areas of direct responsibility.
Competently handles multiple assignments often simultaneously, prioritizing work into manageable and measurable units.
Ability to adapt to changes to patient care and area needs with minimal disruption and loss of productivity.
Follows up to assure problems and issues are resolved.
Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate patient education in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate nursing interventions (such as wound care, point of care testing, vitals signs, etc.) in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
Performs tasks that are typically routine that may impact team's performance with occasional guidance.
Utilizes some discretion and research to solve routine problems.
Applies knowledge of standards, established processes and procedure that apply to your own job.
Provides guidance to entry level co-workers.
Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities.
Seeks to understand colleagues' priorities, working styles and develops relationships across areas.
Openly shares information with others and communicates in a clear and courteous manner.
Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service.
Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns in a timely manner.
Listens carefully to understand the issues and provides accurate information and support.
Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards.
Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department.
Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide high-quality work/service.
Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources.
Uses accurate information and good decision making to consistently achieve results on time and without error.
Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them.
Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action.
Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.

Nice To Haves

Inpatient/Outpatient experience with procedures
Phlebotomy skills

Responsibilities

Maintains work environment in a safe, clean and orderly manner.
Maintains and cares for procedure equipment and supplies.
Ability to set up, operate and troubleshoot all basic procedural equipment in clinic.
Knowledge of sterile technique and maintenance of sterility of surgical/procedural field with ability to set up sterile field in ambulatory setting for in clinic procedures.
Facilitates patient care by assisting the provider before, during and after ambulatory procedures.
Completes patient procedural documentation accurately and completely.
Prepares instrumentation and equipment according to recommended procedures and techniques in preparation for high level disinfection and sterilization to support clinic procedural operations as needed.