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Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) – Emergency Department ED

_Bring your passion to Texas Health So We Are Better + Together_

**Work location:** Texas Health Dallas 8200 Walnut Hill Lane, Dallas, TX 75231

**Work hours:** Full Time/Evenings (11A-11P) 36 hrs/week; weekend and holiday requirements

Emergency Department Highlights:

• Self-Scheduling that helps with work life balance

• Opportunities for educational and career growth

• Robust Unit Based Council (UBC) and engaged leadership team

• Fast-paced, high-volume department averaging 200 patients per day

Here’s What You Need:

• Graduate of an accredited vocational nursing program required

• 6 months in an acute care hospital setting or completion of THR residency program required

• LVN – Licensed Vocational Nursing upon hire required and

• BCLS – Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly required and

• NRP – Essential Neonatal resuscitation Program within 90 days required and

• CPI – Crisis Prevention Intervention Training within 90 days required

• A high degree of confidentiality, positive interpersonal skills and ability to function in a fast-paced environment.

What You Will Do:

• Collaborates with team to facilitate hourly rounding and initiates action to meet patient and/or significant others need for information.

• Takes action to reduce/eliminate patient risks.

• Collects data and reports significant findings to RN.

• Safely administers medication in accordance with medication administration guidelines.

• Uses nursing models to obtain adequate data to initiate, implement, and revise plans of care to meet patient, physician, and family needs.

Additional perks of being a Texas Health Employee:

• Benefits include 401k, PTO, medical, dental, Paid Parental Leave, flex spending, tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment programs as well as several other benefits.

• Delivery of high quality of patient care through nursing education, nursing research and innovations in nursing practice.

• Strong Unit Based Council (UBC).

• A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.

Texas Health Dallas Highlights:

For more than a half-century, Texas Health Dallas has been at the forefront of health care in North Texas. We’re an 875-bed, Magnet-designated, full-service hospital serving our community in and around Dallas since 1966.

We specialize in cancer care, cardiology, neurosciences, women’s services and emergency medicine. Plus, we’re a renowned Level III neonatal intensive care unit, a Comprehensive Stroke and Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence and provide wellness services, outpatient surgery and women’s imaging services.

Texas Health Dallas is a joint Commission-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center, a Level I Trauma Center, a Comprehensive Heart Attack Center and a designated Magnet hospital. We’re a top choice in North Texas for cancer and emergency services, bariatric services, cardiac care and much more.

If you’re ready to join us in our mission to improve the health of our community, then let’s show the world how we’re even better together!

Learn (https://jobs.texashealth.org/why-texas-health/) more about our culture, benefits, and recent awards.

**_Do you still have questions or concerns?_** Feel free to email your questions to [email protected]

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employees or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.