LVN – Urgent Care

LVN – Urgent Care

Requirements

• California Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) – CA Board of Vocational Nursing & Psychiatric Technicians -REQUIRED
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) – American Heart Association -REQUIRED
• ACLS Certification (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) – American Heart Association -REQUIRED
• Vocational Nurse IV Therapy/Blood Withdrawal Certification – Various-Employee provides certificate -REQUIRED
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) – American Heart Association -REQUIRED

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates technical expertise and competency, and works within scope of practice.
• Acts as a clinical resource as needed.
• Partners with providers to continuously learn and expand clinical knowledge base.
• Maintains current knowledge of medications and administration techniques.
• Participates in technical and clinical in-services, customer service training, mock codes and pharmacy fairs.
• May act as preceptor for new nurses.
• Uses positive communication skills, identifies issues, makes suggestions related to access, patient care and patient satisfaction to immediate supervisor and offers solutions for resolution in cooperation with other team members.
• Gives and receives feedback about care and service delivery in a positive and constructive manner.
• Displays a willingness to float and assist in other departments and at other sites.
• Attends and participates in departmental and unit activities such as meetings and training.
• Ensures prompt and efficient return of messages according to established policy.
• Troubleshoots and resolves problem calls.
• Responsible for receiving ancillary results, routing to provider and forwarding to medical records as appropriate.
• Monitors patient flow and provider schedules.
• Completes daily tasks to ensure quality and meet service standards.
• Reviews charges for accuracy and completeness.
• Follows policy and procedure for entering items into OCM.
• Completes work within assigned hours.
• Demonstrates clear knowledge and accountability of quality regulations and standards for department.
• Maintains quality assurance book/list on unit.
• Performs all other duties as required by Director, Patient Care Manager, coordinator, lead, or supervisor.
• Demonstrates clinical nursing skills in Urgent Care as measured by providing direct patient care and successfully performing nursing tasks in assigned area.
• Demonstrates technical expertise and competency within established scope of practice.
• Uses universal precautions and demonstrates knowledge and practice of infection control policies and procedures.
• Provides specific educational materials and individual teaching in partnership with providers.
• Listens to patients, collects pertinent information, recognizes the urgency of patient’s problem and routes to providers as necessary.
• Returns phone calls according to provider instruction.
• May schedule patient appointments.
• Clearly documents information in patient’s clinical record or departmental logs.
• Types proficiently and accurately; has the ability to proof work.
• Consistently abides by and demonstrates the Sharp Healthcare Telephone Standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• 1 Year LVN experience in a clinical area.
• Ambulatory care experience.