Job opening: Practical Nurse
Salary: $44 117 - 57 354 per year
Published at: Dec 21 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Position: This position is located within the Winn Army Community Hospital, Directorate of Surgery in Ft. Stewart, GA. Incumbent will perform direct patient care and coordination activities for infants, adolescents, and adult patients within the clinic.
Duty hours are Monday - Friday, 0730 - 1630.
This is a Direct Hire Solicitation
Duties
Obtain patient vital signs and report findings to the physician
Maintain and update patient records during assigned shift.
Assist and prepare physician for routine and diagnostic procedures.
Communicate with patient and/or families to obtain patient's medical history.
Perform assessments and medical evaluations for assigned patients.
Assist physician with performing specialized procedures
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- You must undergo a specific initial background checks, investigation and periodic re-verification check of multiple agency records to obtain and maintain a suitable determination to occupy a position having regular contact with children.
- This position requires the completion of a pre-employment Physical Examination and an annual examination thereafter to ensure the continued, required level of physical health and ability or fitness to perform the duties of the position.
- This position is subject to a pre-employment drug screening, and random testing thereafter, to include testing based on reasonable suspicion and testing due to direct involvement with an on-duty accident.
- This position has mandatory seasonal influenza vaccination requirements and is subject to annual seasonal influenza vaccinations unless otherwise exempted for medical or religious reasons (documentation of exemption must be provided upon hire).
- This position requires the incumbent to have Hepatitis B vaccination.
- This position requires that you obtain and maintain a Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Applicants must be able to fulfill non-privileged professional credential requirements.
- Incumbent must be able to lift up to 45lbs.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: US Citizens
In order to qualify, you must meet the license and experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.
Basic Requirement for Practical Nurse:
Licensure: A current license to practice as a practical or vocational nurse in a State, territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia; OR must have applied for a license to practice. Applications of candidates possessing a license must be accompanied by a certified or photostatic copy of the license, a notarized statement attesting to the fact, or a citation of the license number and State issuing it. Non-licensed candidates who have completed their training may be appointed subject to obtaining the required license during the probationary period. Those not licensed must furnish the date on which they applied for a license and the jurisdiction involved. No person appointed pending licensure may be retained beyond the probationary period if licensure has not been attained.
In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirement listed below:
Experience: One year of nursing experience in a hospital, outpatient clinic, nursing home, or other supervised medical, nursing, or patient care facility that provided a practical knowledge of human body structure and sterile techniques and procedures, performing such duties as: measuring patient's vital signs to assess, monitor, or detect changes in patients; assisting with administering medications via various routes to assigned patients; screening or updating patient medical records within an automated healthcare systems; and assisting with performing routine procedures such as cervical, vulvar and vaginal biopsies, polypectomy, incision and drainage of cysts and abscesses, coagulation of bleeding lesions, biopsies, or dilatation of the cervix and vagina for assigned patients. This definition of experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-05).
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Contacts
- Address JT-DHA-DD83CP DHA LOW COUNTRY MKT-WINN
DO NOT MAIL
Fort Stewart, GA 31314
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
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