Practical Nurse (Outpatient)

• Provide practical nursing care to a diverse patient population with a variety of medical conditions.
• Perform tasks such as recording vital signs, ordering labs, tracking patient’s laboratory, radiology orders and referral results to completion.
• Initiate and maintain medical histories on patients, records observations, and identifies symptoms for use by the clinician.
• Report significant findings to the supervising nurse or physician.
• Perform direct nursing care to clinic patients via telemedicine, virtual, and face-to-face care.
• Conduct focused nursing assessments and contributes to the care plan.
• Maintain timely and accurate documentation of care provided and ensures adherence to established protocols.
• Communicate with patients and families to ensure they are informed about care plans and progress.
• Administer prescribed medications with increased independence, ensuring proper patient dosages, routes, and times are followed
• Prepare and deliver oral, topical, and injectable forms while monitoring for and responding to side effects or adverse reactions.
• Assist in performing and managing medical procedures, physical examinations, and treatments.
• Utilize electronic health record and information technology as effective communication and management tools to facilitate the patient experience and coordination.
• Assist with resuscitations, stabilizations, and other critical interventions as well as initiates emergency care as needed and assembles, operates, and monitors specialized equipment.
• Monitor patient responses during and after procedures, ensuring that any complications are addressed promptly.
• Ensure compliance with infection control protocols throughout all procedures.
• Provide patient and family education tailored to specific medical conditions, treatment plans, and recovery goals.
• Assist in counseling and educating patients to include, but not limited to diet, acute or chronic illness, wellness/preventative health measures, immunizations, demonstrating proper use of medical devices, and addresses questions about ongoing care.

Required Documents

The documents you are required to submit vary based on whether or not you are eligible for preference in federal employment. A complete description of preference categories and the associated required documents is in the Applicant Checklist for Public Announcements. As described above, your complete application includes your resume, your responses to the online questionnaire, and documents which prove your eligibility to apply.

If you fail to provide these documents, you will be marked as having an incomplete application package and you will not be considered any further. 1. Your resume: Your resume must be two pages or less and must support the specialized experience described in this announcement. Resumes exceeding two pages will be removed from consideration. For each relevant work experience, make sure you include the employer's name, job title, start and end dates (include month and year), for qualifications purposes, the number of hours worked per week, and a brief description that show you can perform the tasks at the required level listed in the job announcement.

If your resume does not contain this information, your application may be marked as incomplete, and you may not receive consideration for this position. Use plain language. Avoid using acronyms and terms that are not easily understood. The hiring agency will not make assumptions about what's in your resume. If your resume includes a photograph or other inappropriate material or content, it will not be used to make eligibility and qualification determinations, and you may not be considered for this vacancy.

For additional information, to include formatting tips, see: What to include in your resume. 2. Other supporting documents: Cover Letter, optional Most recent Performance Appraisal, if applicable License/Certification: This position has a license/certification requirement. You MUST submit a copy of your current, active, valid, unrestricted license/certification with your application package or you may be rated ineligible.

See: Transcripts and Licenses. NOTE: Documents submitted as part of the application package, to include supplemental documents, may be shared beyond the Human Resources Office. Some supplemental documents such as military orders and marriage certificates may contain personal information for someone other than you. You may sanitize these documents to remove another person's personal information before you submit your application.

You may be asked to provide an un-sanitized version of the documents if you are selected to confirm your eligibility.