As a Licensed Vocational Nurse, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn -whether through open collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. Youll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.
Nurses are at the forefront of our commitment to the care and improvement of human life. At HCA Healthcare, there are many ways for nurses to have a voice through professional practice councils, advisory councils, vital voices surveys, and units of distinction. We learn from our multi-generational nursing family.
We partner with our nurses at Las Palmas Medical Center.
Job Summary and Qualifications
As a Licensed Practical Nurse/Licensed Vocational Nurse (LPN/LVN) at HCA Healthcare, youll play a key role in delivering safe, high-quality care that puts patients first. Your clinical skills, attention to detail, and compassionate presence help create healing experiences and support a team committed to the care and improvement of human life.
Your responsibilities will include:
• Providing focused nursing care for patients with complex needs by administering medications, managing lines or drains, and assisting with interventions like cardiac monitoring or respiratory support. • Closely observing patients for subtle changes in status - including shifts in heart rhythm, oxygen levels, or neurological signs - and escalating concerns quickly to support early intervention. • Documenting timely, accurate updates that help the care team coordinate effectively in a high-acuity environment. • Helping patients and families understand complex conditions and recovery steps with clarity and comfort. • Working closely with RNs, providers, and specialists to stabilize patients and guide them through the transition from intensive care toward recovery.
Qualifications
To be eligible for this role, you will need:
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS) certification must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date.
Benefits
Las Palmas Medical Center offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine services. • Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services. • Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence. • Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3 to 9 of pay based on years of service. • Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support, and financial wellbeing counseling. • Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing.
Additional Benefits
Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection, and consumer discounts are also available.
About HCA Healthcare
Nurses play a pivotal role and are the backbone of healthcare delivery. At HCA Healthcare, we are dedicated to ensuring nurses have necessary tools and resources to provide world-class patient care, advocating for the profession, and helping to shape the future of nursing.
About Las Palmas Medical Center
Las Palmas Medical Center is a 300-bed full-service hospital in El Paso, home to the regions only kidney transplant center. The facility offers a range of services, including emergency care with a Level III trauma center, cardiac care, womens services, pediatric care, and NICU, cancer care, and more. Las Palmas Medical Center is part of Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare, a leading healthcare provider for El Paso and the surrounding region that is part of HCA Healthcare.
About HCA Healthcare
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the Worlds Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
If this opportunity is your next step in your career path, we encourage you to apply for our Licensed Vocational Nurse Medical Renal opening. We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing and applying today.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
At its founding in 1968, Nashville-based HCA was one of the nation's first hospital companies. Today, we are the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, a company comprised of locally managed facilities that includes about 165 hospitals and 115 freestanding surgery centers in 20 states and England and employing approximately 204,000 people. Approximately four to five percent of all inpatient care delivered in the country today is provided by HCA facilities. Richard M. Bracken serves as Chairman of HCA and R. Milton Johnson is the company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
HCA is committed to the care and improvement of human life and strives to deliver high quality, cost effective healthcare in the communities we serve. Building on the foundation provided by our Mission & Values, HCA puts patients first and works to constantly improve the care we give them by implementing measures that support our caregivers, help ensure patient safety and provide the highest possible quality. Investing in our communities is important to us. HCA typically invests about $1.5 billion annually to keep our facilities modern and up-to-date technologically and to expand and add services where needed. Focusing primarily on communities where the company is a leading healthcare provider, HCA selectively adds new facilities in order to better serve our communities.
And because two HCA founders were physicians, we value highly the strong relationships we've created with local physicians. We endeavor to provide them with a wide array of services and modern facilities in order to help them deliver the best possible care.