Licensed Vocational Nurse - Retail

Kaiser Permanente - Montclair, CA

Full-time - Entry Level

Montclair, CA

Ambulatory Health Care Services

About the position

The Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) - Retail position at Kaiser Permanente involves providing nursing care to patients under the supervision of a Registered Nurse. The role emphasizes excellent customer relations, adherence to established policies and procedures, and the execution of various nursing tasks to ensure optimal patient care. The LVN will be responsible for assessing patient needs, administering medications, and assisting medical staff in various procedures, all while maintaining a safe and therapeutic environment for patients.

Responsibilities

• Upholds Kaiser Permanente's Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities and applicable state, federal and local laws.
• Exhibits excellent customer relations to patients, visitors, physicians, and co-workers; shows courtesy, compassion, and respect.
• Provides therapeutic patient care in accordance with the patients established by the physician and a registered nurse within scope of practice.
• Transcribes physicians orders as directed by policy.
• Communicates directly with registered nurse to institute changes in plan of care; assists with and contributes to development of nursing care.
• Gives specified medication orally, hypodermically, intramuscularly and topically.
• Executes treatments such as urinary catheterizations, bladder irrigations and installations, suctioning procedures, throat irrigations and enemas and utilizing equipment as required.
• Performs related patient care functions such as taking temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure readings; applying and removing dressings; may instruct patient in various self-administered treatments or procedures; obtains specimens; assures correct culture collection.
• Assists physician or other medical staff personnel with examinations and treatments by selecting and passing instruments, providing support and restraint to patient, draping and other assistance as directed or required.
• Evaluates patients condition by observing signs, symptoms, and reactions to therapy, to identify unexpected and/or significant findings, initiates appropriate emergency procedures as necessary and reports unusual conditions to the registered nurse as established by policy and procedure in a timely manner.
• Documents patient signs, symptoms, observations and therapeutic treatments to patients medical record.
• Ensures cleanliness of nursing module, patient room, and environment and proper functioning of patient care equipment by visual inspection, routine testing, and other related methods.
• Provides a safe and therapeutic environment for patients and staff.
• Utilizes effective verbal and non-verbal forms of communication.
• Performs in other areas or units to which assigned as required by nursing administration to provide and maintain the established standards of care and safety.
• Participates in staff meetings and in-service programs.
• Assists in ordering and distribution of module supplies and equipment.
• Accepts verbal and telephone orders from physician.
• Administers pulse oximetry, humidification therapy, spirometer, oxygen therapy via mask or nasal cannula, oral, nasal and trach suctioning and sputum induction.
• Promotes, ensures, and improves customer service to internal/external customers by demonstrating skills which are consistent with the organizations philosophy of providing extraordinary customer relations and quality service.
• Performs other related duties as required.
• Performs venipuncture & finger sticks.
• Checks in patients & members.

Requirements

• Six (6) months recent medical office or acute care LVN experience.
• Vocational Nurse License (California).
• Basic Life Support from American Heart Association.
• IV Therapy/Blood Withdrawal Certification.

Nice-to-haves

• Proficient with MS Excel and Word.
• AHA BLS and IV blood withdrawal certification required.

Benefits

• Extraordinary customer relations and quality service are critical to our success. We seek candidates who can demonstrate these skills and are dedicated to providing the highest quality of service to our health plan Members.