(Archived) MedSurg LVP/LPN - San Antonio Military Medical Center

NO CANCELLATIONS! FULL-TIME GUARANTEED HOURS! 3x12s!
*Salary: $27.48 - $34.34 per hour*

• Full-Time, Permanent Government Contract positions!

Wisestaff is urgently hiring for qualified Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN/LPN) with one (1) or more years of general Medical, Surgical LVN experience for the inpatient unit at San Antonio Military Medical Center (SAMMC). SAMMC is a Level One Trauma Center and the largest inpatient Military Hospital. If you are looking for a rewarding career, we invite you to apply today! This teaching hospital provides invaluable training in support of graduate medical education, specialties, and critically important trauma skills. There is no more rewarding place to work than providing healthcare to our military service men and women.

Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN/LPN) Duties:

• Observes, assesses, and records symptoms, reactions, and progress; assists physicians during treatments and examinations; administers medication and prescribed treatments, completes admissions and discharges, and promote convalescence and rehabilitation, RNs are responsible for monitoring and interpretation of collected data by the LVNs and unlicensed assisted personnel, informing the medical staff as appropriate.
• Assess patients' conditions for potential or life-threatening crises and distinguishes between normal and abnormal physical findings; initiates life saving measures in the absence of a physician.
• Capable of emergency equipment operation: defibrillator, EKG machine, cardiac monitor, and other equipment as determined by MTF, unit/clinic and position.
• Demonstrates the ability to react with alertness and skill in any emergency situation, e.g., cardiac or respiratory arrest, hemorrhage, shock, severe physical trauma and psychiatric reaction, initiates life saving measures in the absence of a physician, depending on position and protocol, may serve as member of resuscitation or emergency code team.
• Each Licensed Vocational Nurse will manually and/or electronically document all patient care given and the progress of the patient utilizing the SAMMC/WHASC documentation standards in the patients' medical record.
• Must be competent in demonstrating neurovascular assessment, tracheostomy care and care of patients with chest tubes. All MED/SURG units require telemetry experience and required to pass the BAMC annual Cardiac Telemetry Test.