LVN

Kaiser Permanente; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 48,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente is seeking an experienced nursing support professional to provide routine patient care under supervision. Responsibilities include vital signs, wound care, medication administration (non-IV), and patient education per provider instructions.

The role emphasizes adherence to sterile technique, universal precautions, and collaboration with licensed providers in a busy outpatient setting. This full-time onsite position offers shift coverage and hospital-related benefits.

Qualifications

• Ability to work effectively with the public.
• Demonstrated knowledge of sterile technique.
• Consistently demonstrates culturally sensitive service to members and customers.

Responsibilities

• Take vital signs and apply/remove dressings for assessment.
• Administer non-IV medications as ordered and observe responses.
• Prepare treatment rooms for procedures with instruments and supplies.
• Assist licensed providers during examinations and treatments as directed.
• Follow Universal Precautions and report incidents as required.

Skills

Public interaction

Sterile technique

Culturally sensitive service

Education

Vocational Nurse License (California)

Tools

Basic Life Support

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.

Experience

Basic Qualifications

• 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

Additional Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

Notes

• This is an 8 hour position with variable hours 6:30 AM to 7:30 PM. May be required to float to other Central locations. Weekend shifts are required.

Primary Location

California,San Diego,Vandever Medical Offices

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Shift

Day

Workdays

Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat

Working Hours Start

08:30 AM

Working Hours End

05:30 PM

Job Schedule

Full-time

Job Type

Standard

Worker Location

Onsite

Employee Status

Regular

Employee Group/Union Affiliation

B09|OPEIU|Local 30

Job Level

Individual Contributor

Department

Vandever MOB - Family Medicine-Regular Clinic - 0806

Pay Range

$35.36 - $38.53 / hour

Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data, internal alignment, and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.

Travel

Yes, 20 % of the Time

Work Setting

Onsite

Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy.

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.