Licensed Vocational Nurse - La Mesa - Family Medicine - Part Time Days

Kaiser Permanente

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• 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.

• 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.

• Ability to give and follow verbal and written instructions.

• Vocational Nurse License (California)
  

• Basic Life Support
  

• Start time may vary between 7:15 am and 10:00 am depending on department needs.
• Primary location is La Mesa Medical Offices Family Medicine. May float to Rancho San Diego and Bostonia as needed.