Registered Nurse/Licensed Practical Nurse

Join the Missouri Veterans Home as a Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse, providing direct care to veterans in a long-term care setting. This position offers the opportunity to serve Missouri's veterans through comprehensive nursing care, including assessments, care planning, medication administration, and daily assistance with activities of living.

Clinical Setting

You will work at a Missouri Veterans Home, providing nursing care to veterans in a residential long-term care environment.

Responsibilities

• Assess, organize, and plan staff duties on assigned shift and unit
• Assess veteran needs and ensure services are consistent with identified needs
• Implement veteran MDS assessments and care plans according to healthcare protocol
• Make rounds with the physician, report patient status, and receive care and treatment instructions
• Transcribe and implement physician orders accurately
• Document nursing assessments, interventions, and evaluations in the electronic medical record
• Administer medications and treatments as prescribed by the physician with appropriate follow-up observations
• Assist veterans with transferring, positioning, transporting, feeding, elimination, toileting, bathing, and showering
• Assist veterans with admission and discharge procedures
• Participate in orientation of unit staff

Required Qualifications

• Active Missouri licensure as a Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse in good standing, or
• Recent graduate of an accredited nursing program may practice as a graduate nurse until licensure examination results are received or until 90 days after graduation, whichever occurs first, as allowed by the Missouri Board of Nursing

Compensation

LPN Hourly Pay:

• Day shift: $29.30 - $31.28 per hour
• Evening and night shift: $31.30 - $33.28 per hour
• Weekend shift differential: additional $1.50 per hour
• Pay commensurate with experience

RN Hourly Pay:

• Day shift: $38.92 - $41.80 per hour
• Evening and night shift: $42.42 - $45.56 per hour
• Pay commensurate with experience

Benefits

• 3 weeks paid vacation
• 3 weeks paid sick leave
• 13 paid holidays
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• Free life insurance
• Retirement plan
• Up to $25 per month match on savings plan
• 6 weeks paid leave for birth or adoption

Schedule

Positions available on day, evening, and night shifts. Weekend shift differential pay is available.