LVN - Vandever MOB - Family Medicine-Regular Clinic - Full Time

Kaiser Permanente; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente is seeking a Licensed Vocational Nurse for the Vandever MOB Family Medicine Clinic in San Diego. In this full-time role, you will provide essential nursing care, supporting RNs and healthcare providers in delivering high-quality patient services while adhering to healthcare standards and protocols.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of sterile technique.
• Ability to give and follow verbal and written instructions.

Responsibilities

• Perform vital signs and nursing care functions.
• Administer medications excluding IV medications.
• Assist providers during patient examinations and procedures.

Skills

Ability to work effectively with the public

Demonstrated knowledge of sterile technique

Education

Vocational Nurse License (California)

Basic Life Support Certification

Job description

LVN - Vandever MOB - Family Medicine-Regular Clinic - Full Time

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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.

• 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.
  
  

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
  
  

Notes

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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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