Job Type
Full-time
Description
General Summary:
The Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) functions under the direct supervision of the Clinical Director. The LVN provides nursing care to patients of all ages; from pediatric to geriatric, within the LVN scope of practices
Summary of Essential Duties:
- Administers prescribed medications or start intravenous fluids, noting times and amounts on patients' charts
- Observes patients, charting and reporting changes in patients' conditions, such as adverse reactions to medication or treatment, and taking any necessary action
- Answers patients' calls and determine how to assist them
- Measures and records patients' vital signs, such as height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration
- Provides basic patient care or treatments, such as taking temperatures or blood pressures, dressing wounds, treating bedsores, giving enemas or douches, rubbing with alcohol, massaging, or performing catheterizations
- Works as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions
- Supervises nurses' aides or assistants
- Evaluates nursing intervention outcomes, conferring with other healthcare team members as necessary
- Assembles and use equipment, such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, or oxygen suppliers
- Records food and fluid intake and output
Requirements
Job Specifications: (Knowledge, skills, abilities and experience normally required for competent performance)
Education and Knowledge
- High School Diploma or equivalent required
- Require knowledge of medical equipment, and medical terminology
- Knowledge of quality assurance standards preferred
- Demonstrates knowledge of safety, infection control & emergency policies and procedures
Experience
- Must have minimum 1 years’ experience
- · Nextgen User preferred
Skills and Abilities
- Bilingual and Bi-literate Spanish/English preferred
- Good written, oral and customer service skills
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and project management skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Natural at building relationships; empathetic, compassionate, trusting, flexible, good listeners and energetic.
- Excellent logical reasoning and judgment skills; must be detail-oriented and organized
- Demonstrates initiative, exertion, drive, desire for self-improvement, and learning ability for advancement
Licensure and Certificates:
- Current California LVN license
- BLS Certificate