"Licensed Vocational Nurse - Student Health Services"

Employees in this classification are responsible for performing a wide variety of patient care activities in an assigned specialty or sub-specialty outpatient clinic. Work is performed under the direction of a licensed staff nurse and/or physician as part of a total health care team in providing complete evaluations to patients. Work is performed under usual clinic conditions, necessitating a high degree of contact with patient, families and clinic personnel.

Student Health Services at Texas Tech University is the on-campus medical care clinic exclusively for Texas Tech University students. The mission of Student Health Services is to proudly provide compassionate, high-quality and accessible healthcare to Texas Tech students. This primary care clinic is an exciting place to work. It is a fast-paced, team-oriented environment where patients always come first.

The LVN will support our mission by:

• Welcoming patients warmly with compassion and enthusiasm.
• Listening carefully to patient needs presented face to face or over the telephone and communicating clear and accurate information in response to all members of the health care team.
• Implementing teaching plans for patients and their families with well-defined health learning needs.
• Reporting data, identifies and reports alterations in patient responses to assist in the identification of problems and formulation of goals/ outcomes and patient-centered plans of care in collaboration with patients, their families, and the interdisciplinary health care team.
• Working collaboratively with other health care team members to ensure patient needs are met and clinic operations are efficient.
• Communicating with patients via telephone per clinic protocols.
• Preparing and operating necessary equipment and instruments for examination, treatments, and procedures.
• Assisting with or performs exams and procedures and documents intervention in EMR.
• Taking and recording accurate vital signs and measurements.
• Communicating patient data using EMR to support decision-making to improve patient care.
• Utilizing appropriate protocols to triage walk-in patients and patients who call the clinic requiring assessment.
• Working under the supervision of a clinician and utilizing Standard Delegation Orders to manage a nurse clinic.
• Maintaining inventory of supplies in examination and procedure rooms.
• Participating in the identification of patient needs for referral to resources and facilitating continuity of care.
• Assisting in determining the physical and mental health status, needs, and preferences of culturally, ethnically, and socially diverse patients and their families.
• Assisting the Nursing Team Leader with the development and implementation of clinic goals, objectives to facilitate improved patient outcomes.
• Managing refill requests and administering medications to patients following policies and procedures for medication management.
• Completing Annual Nursing Core Competency Training and Skills Fair.
• Participating in emergency preparedness drills in the department.
• Attending nursing staff meetings.

Provide nursing support to the community-based Family Medicine Clinic when resources allow. Helping with outreach opportunities for the TTU campus.