Licensed Vocational Nurse

Kaiser Permanente; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente in California is seeking a Licensed Vocational Nurse to join our team under direct supervision of an RN or provider. You will perform routine patient care, excluding IV medications, following policies and quality standards.

This position is part-time, 20-32 hours per week, with an 8-hour shift starting between 7:00 AM and 10:00 AM. The home clinic is Rancho Bernardo, with potential to float to North County Primary Care locations as needed.

Qualifications

• Ability to work effectively with the public.
• Demonstrated knowledge of sterile technique.
• Commitment to culturally sensitive service.

Responsibilities

• Take vital signs and apply/remove dressings per provider assessment.
• Perform wound care, skin prep, and basic procedures as directed.
• Reinforce self-care instructions and patient education.
• Observe and document patient responses to medications and therapies.
• Assist licensed providers during examinations and procedures.
• Prepare treatment rooms and arrange instruments for procedures.
• Maintain patient safety during procedures.

Skills

Public interaction

Sterile technique

Cultural sensitivity

Job description

Job Summary:

Under direct supervision of an RN or provider performs routine patient care, excluding administration of IV medications and venipuncture, following established policies, procedures and standards; follows Quality of Service Standards; follows Universal Precautions.

Essential Responsibilities:

• May perform nursing care functions such as vital signs, removal and/or application of dressings for assessment by licensed provider.
• Cleaning or irrigating wound after providers assessment and instructions, shaving and skin preparation, ear washes, NG insertion & lavage, urinary catheter insertion & irrigation.
• Reinforce standardized self care procedures as directed by licensed provider.
• Recognizes and responds to acute emergency situation following established procedures.
• Orients patients to system policies and practices.
• Provides appropriate instruction sheets based upon provider direction.
• Reviews instruction sheet with patient.
• Administers medications, excluding IV medications, as ordered by provider.
• Observes and documents patients response to medications and therapy.
• May perform tuberculin, coccidioidin and histoplasmin skin tests, provides such tests are part of a tuberculosis control program.
• May perform immunizations provides they are based upon written protocols.
• Completes necessary arrangements or organizes treatment rooms prior to surgical and/or examination procedures by setting up or laying out instruments, drapes and sponges contained in sterile trays and assembling equipment items as required for particular procedures as directed.
• May assist licensed provider with patient examinations and treatments by positioning, restraining patients, and assisting as directed.
• Provides assistance in treatment rooms during minor surgical procedures and/or various diagnostic examinations by positioning and draping.
• May hold clamps or retractors, sponge vascular areas, and pass instruments as specifically directed by the physician.
• Assures safety of patient during procedures.
• May prepare and transport items such as medical equipment and laboratory specimens.
• May clean and disinfect instruments/equipment according to standardized procedures.
• Follows Universal Precautions. Reports incidents of failure to follow procedures to Department Administrator or designee.
• Maintains departmental files, performing duties such as pulling file and assembling forms prior to appointment, and filing returned diagnostic reports as directed.
• Initiates and/or completes diagnostic rest forms per provider order, telephones prescriptions to pharmacies, relays medical information from physician to patient, and relays information from patient to physician.
• Charts in patients medical record as indicated.
• May perform lab tests including urine dip-tests, acetone tests, hemoccult tests, tests to determine. PH, protein, PKU.
• May perform hearing and vision tests, glaucoma tests and visual acuities.
• Collects, by non-invasive and invasive techniques, and preserves specimens for testing, including urine, and sputum and stool.
• Participates in Department Quality Assurance activities.
• Performs other duties, as required, such as checking patients medical records for incomplete data and relaying message to staff personnel.
• Note: Specific duties may vary depending on assignment.
• Note: Bold print indicates the differences between an MAII & LVN.

Basic Qualifications:

Experience

• Ability to work effectively with the public.
• Demonstrated knowledge of sterile technique.
• Consistently demonstrates the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors necessary to provide superior and culturally sensitive service to each other, to our members, and to customers, contracted providers, and vendors.

Education

• Ability to give and follow verbal and written instructions.

License, Certification, Registration

• Vocational Nurse License (California)
• Basic Life Support

Notes:

• Scheduled work hours per week will be 20-32.
• This is an 8-hour shift with varied start times between 7:00AM-10:00AM
• While this position's home clinic is Rancho Bernardo, this position may float to other North County Primary Care locations as operations require.