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

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