
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN/LVN) - Lake County - Float Nurse
Merrillville, INFull-time$28–30.5/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
Aveanna Healthcare is hiring a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN/LVN) to provide in-home nursing care in the Lake County area. The role serves infants, children, adolescents, and adults. Nurses receive training, clinical and operational support, and scheduling assistance. Flexible shifts are available, and the posting lists full-time and salaried career opportunities.
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Full job description
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN/LVN) - Lake County - Float Nurse
Job Ref:
218411
Location:
Merrillville, IN 46410
Category:
LPN/LVN
Line of Business:
PDS
Pay Rate:
$28.00 - $30.50 per hour
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Find yourself here.Aveanna is compassion and passion rolled into one inspired purpose. It’s anything you want to find and everything you’re looking for. It’s a place where caring is more personal, because it happens right in the comfort of home. Come see what’s waiting for you when you come to Aveanna.
Caring In Action
LVN Responsibilities Include:
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Execution of physician’s prescribed plan of care and compliant documentation of care in system of record.
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Administration of prescribed medication, treatments, and therapies.
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Patient assessments and coordination of care.
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Health, promotion, teaching, and training of family members.
LVN Requirements for Success
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Must have eligible good-standing license (LVN) for the state in which the clinician will practice.
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Current CPR certification
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Must be comfortable providing in-home nursing care to infants, children, adolescents, and adults
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Pediatrics experience is helpful, but not necessary. We offer exceptional training for all nurses.
Why More LVNs Are SayingYESto Aveanna
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Local/community cases allow us to match you to a case that’s close to home
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1-on-1 Personalized Care
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24/7 clinical and operational support for direct clinical, plus scheduling assistance
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Competitive Weekly Pay
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State-of-the-art technology allowing electronic charting at point of care
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Flexible shifts and scheduling (8, 12, or 16-hour shifts; days/nights/weekends available)
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Full-time and salaried career opportunities
“I enjoyed working in the hospital, but I wanted to know how my patients progressed after they went home. Fourteen years ago, I left the hospital to work with Aveanna full time. I’ve been caring for Caleb for the past twelve years. I’ve loved every minute of it.”– Nurse Joan
Our MissionAveanna Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of pediatric and adult homecare in the nation. We lead with clinical quality and compassion, delivering care in over 200 locations in 23 states. While we have a national presence, we are very much a local provider in each community we serve. Our stated mission is to revolutionize the way pediatric healthcare is delivered, one patient at a time, and we hope you will help us fulfill that mission by joining the 30,000 nurses who already call Aveanna home. Apply today.
How this job compares
Set against the 14,274 open Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$28–30.5/hr
- Indiana median$36–44/hr82 hourly ranges
- US median$34–47/hr6,094 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $29.25/hr, is 28% below the Indiana median midpoint ($41/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Nurse hourly ranges in Indiana.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 236 open Nurse jobs in Indiana and 14,274 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Indiana
- American Senior Communities52 open
- Ascension Health30 open
- Community Health Systems16 open
- Experience
- Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (5,744 postings).
- Education
- 1,316 of the 14,274 open Nurse jobs (9%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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