LVN Bilingual Spanish - Clairemont Mesa - Occupational Health

LVN Bilingual Spanish – Clairemont Mesa – Occupational Health – Full Time Days

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Under direct supervision of an RN or provider, performs routine patient care, excluding administration of IV medications and venipuncture. Follows established policies, procedures and standards; adheres to Quality of Service Standards and Universal Precautions.

• May perform nursing care functions such as taking vital signs, removal and/or application of dressings for assessment by licensed provider.
• Cleaning or irrigating wounds after provider’s 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 situations following established procedures.
• Orients patients to system policies and practices.
• Provides appropriate instruction sheets based upon provider direction and reviews them with patients.
• 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 as part of a tuberculosis control program.
• May perform immunizations if based upon written protocols.
• Prepares and organizes treatment rooms prior to surgical and/or examination procedures, setting up or laying out instruments, drapes and sponges contained in sterile trays, and assembling equipment as required.
• Assists licensed provider with patient examinations and treatments by positioning, restraining patients, and assisting as directed.
• Assists 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 provider.
• Ensures patient safety during procedures.
• May prepare and transport items such as medical equipment and laboratory specimens.
• May clean and disinfect instruments/equipment according to standardized procedures.
• Reports incidents of failure to follow procedures to Department Administrator or designee.
• Maintains departmental files, pulling and assembling forms prior to appointments, and filing returned diagnostic reports as directed.
• Initiates and/or completes diagnostic work‑up forms per provider order, telephones prescriptions to pharmacies, relays medical information from physician to patient and vice versa.
• Charts in patients’ medical records as indicated.
• May perform lab tests including urine dip‑tests, acetone tests, hemoccult tests, and tests to determine PH, protein, PKU.
• May perform hearing and vision tests, glaucoma tests and visual acuities.
• Collects and preserves specimens for testing, including urine, 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 messages to staff personnel.
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  Specific duties may vary depending on assignment.
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  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

• Bilingual (English/Spanish) Level II required.

• Must successfully pass or have passed the bilingual test (within the last 12 months), or be active in the QBS program.

Entry level

Full‑time

Health Care Provider

Hospitals and Health Care