LVN - Bernardo MOB - Family Medicine - PT (21) - 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

About the role

This position is located in the Rancho Bernardo clinic and may float to other North County Primary Care locations as needed. The schedule is 8 hours per day, with start times between 7:00 AM and 10:00 AM, and the number of scheduled work hours per week is 20-32.

Responsibilities

• Performs routine patient care under direct supervision of an RN or provider, including vital signs, removal and/or application of dressings, wound cleaning or irrigation, shaving, skin preparation, ear washes, NG insertion & lavage, urinary catheter insertion & irrigation.
• Reinforces standardized self-care procedures as directed by licensed provider.
• Recognizes and responds to acute emergency situations following established procedures.
• Orients patients to system policies and practices.
• Provides appropriate instruction sheets based on provider direction and reviews them with the patient.
• Administers medications, excluding IV medications, as ordered by provider.
• Observes and documents patients' responses to medications and therapy.
• May perform tuberculin, coccidioidin, and histoplasmin skin tests, and immunizations based on written protocols.
• Completes necessary arrangements or organizes treatment rooms before surgical and/or examination procedures, setting up or laying out instruments, drapes, and sponges in sterile trays and assembling equipment items as required.
• Auxiliary duties may include assisting licensed providers with patient examinations and treatments, positioning and restraining patients, and assisting as directed.
• Assists in minor surgical procedures and/or various diagnostic examinations by positioning and draping patients.
• May hold clamps or retractors, sponge vascular areas, and pass instruments as directed by the physician.
• Ensures patient safety during procedures.
• Prepares and transports items such as medical equipment and laboratory specimens.
• Cleans and disinfects instruments/equipment according to standardized procedures.
• Follows Universal Precautions and reports incidents of failure to follow procedures to the Department Administrator or designee.
• Maintains departmental files, performing tasks such as pulling files, assembling forms, 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 records as indicated.
• Performs lab tests including urine dip-tests, acetone tests, hemoccult tests, tests to determine pH, protein, PKU, and collects specimens using non-invasive and invasive techniques.
• Participates in Department Quality Assurance activities.
• Performs other duties as required, such as checking patients' medical records for incomplete data and relaying messages to staff personnel.

Requirements

• Vocational Nurse License (California)
• Basic Life Support

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.
• Ability to give and follow verbal and written instructions.

Skills

• Excellent communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Strong organizational skills.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

8 hours per day, with start times between 7:00 AM and 10:00 AM, and the number of scheduled work hours per week is 20-32.

Note

Specific duties may vary depending on assignment. Bold print indicates the differences between an MAII & LVN.

Note

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