Licensed Vocational Nurse LVN

Job Description

As a Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN), you'll provide direct patient care in accordance with established policies, procedures, and physician orders. You'll administer medications and treatments, monitor patient conditions, perform routine clinical procedures, maintain accurate patient records, and collaborate with an interdisciplinary healthcare team to support treatment planning and continuity of care.

Practice Setting: Veterans Home, Correctional Healthcare Facility, or State Hospital.

Employment Opportunities: Full-time, PRN, and 13-week assignments may be available based on program needs and contract requirements.

Contingency: This position is contingent upon contract award.

Schedule: 12-hour day or night shifts, 7:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m.–7:00 a.m.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and provide nursing care, including administering medications, therapeutic agents, injections, treatments, and disease-prevention measures
• Take vital signs, monitor catheters and intravenous devices, and apply or change treatments and dressings
• Obtain specimens for diagnostic testing and perform routine laboratory tests
• Monitor patient status and behavior and report findings to the primary care provider or registered nurse
• Participate in interdisciplinary treatment planning, patient-progress evaluations, and the development of care plans
• Provide patient education and document treatments, nursing care, patient responses, and other required information in the medical record
• Follow established safety, infection-control, and universal-precaution requirements

Qualifications

Qualifications

Requirements

• Valid, active California license to practice as a Licensed Vocational Nurse
• Current Basic Life Suppor