Licensed Practical Nurse

Company Description

IHMS USA, Inc. provides medical services to some of the world’s most vulnerable populations, including individuals and families who are migrating, displaced, or affected by conflict, disaster, or disease. For more than 20 years, IHMS has delivered compassionate, high-quality healthcare services across the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, IHMS USA focuses on supporting communities across the Western Hemisphere while drawing on the global experience and best practices developed by IHMS teams around the world.

Our work is driven by a commitment to delivering safe, effective, and patient-centered care in complex environments. To support this mission, IHMS has developed accredited and compliant management systems that help ensure quality care while tracking and coordinating every aspect of patient health services. These systems promote transparency, strengthen safeguarding practices, and provide near real-time visibility into clinical operations.

We understand that many of the individuals we serve are navigating difficult and uncertain circumstances. That’s why our care model includes access to comprehensive behavioral health services when needed, ensuring patients receive both medical and emotional support.

For healthcare professionals, working with IHMS means being part of a mission-driven team dedicated to making a meaningful impact. Our teams operate around the world and stand ready to provide compassionate care wherever it is needed most. For more information, please visit: www.ihmsusa.us.

Job Description

This position is eligible for an additional sign-on bonus. 

Provide nursing services within the scope of a Licensed Practical Nurse license to support patient intake 
screening, routine and urgent care, medication continuity, health record documentation, emergency response, 
infectious disease prevention, and continuity of care in a secure government-contracted facility. The role 
supports delivery of culturally competent and trauma-informed health services in accordance with state 
licensure requirements, credentialing standards, contract requirements, and facility policies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide nursing services within licensed scope of practice, credentialed role, and assigned duties, in 
• accordance with state law, facility procedures, and contract requirements. 
• Support initial medical screening within 12 hours of patient arrival, including required intake processes, tuberculosis screening activities, vital signs, health history collection support, and escalation of positive or urgent findings in accordance with facility protocol. 
• Support daily sick call and triage processes for patient health care requests and ensure required 
• documentation is completed in the health record. 
• Administer prescribed medications and support medication continuity for transfer, release, or removal, within licensure, assigned authority, and facility procedures. 
• Perform or support minor procedures, routine screenings, and Clinical Laboratory Improvement 
• Amendments-waived or point-of-care testing within authorized scope, including blood glucose monitoring, urinalysis, pregnancy testing, immunization support, and routine electrocardiogram support, as assigned. 
• Support routine laboratory processes required at the facility and promptly escalate abnormal, urgent, or serious findings in accordance with established procedures. 
• Support emergency medical response, including Basic Life Support, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, 
• automated external defibrillator use, emergency first aid, initial stabilization, and safe transfer to a 
• higher level of care when required. 
• Prepare, maintain, and update accurate and timely patient documentation in the electronic health record, including intake, sick call, screening, medications, appointments, transfer information, and continuity-of-care records. 
• Protect the confidentiality of patient information and comply with privacy, records management, and security requirements, including prompt reporting of unauthorized access or security incidents. 
• Follow infectious disease prevention, standard precautions, isolation, co-horting, quarantine, and 
• tuberculosis management requirements, including required notifications and continuity-of-care coordination. 
• Communicate effectively with patients who have limited English proficiency and with patients who have communication or mobility impairments through approved in-person, telephonic, video, sign-language, or other auxiliary support services. 
• Coordinate with the Health Authority, licensed providers, behavioral health staff, dental staff, pharmacy support, transportation staff,