Licensed Vocational Nurse - Extra-Help Licensed Vocational Nurse

This recruitment is being established to obtain a current eligible list for both full time and Extra-Help vacancies.   Extra-Help are not entitled to county benefits and are limited to a maximum of 25 hours per week. Extra-Help pay is $25.53 per hour.

Duties may include, but are not limited to the following:

• Administers medications and vaccines and may administer oxygen.
   
• Monitors and discontinues administration of IV fluids.
   
• Withdraws blood, gives enemas; performs wound and ear irrigations and catheterizations.
   
• Observes patients and reports needs, unusual conditions or behavior to the nurse in charge.
   
• Assists physicians in treatments when needed; performs cardiac output routines.
   
• Takes or measures temperature, respiration and blood pressure.
   
• Checks records and activities for completeness.
   
• May transcribe physician's orders and do charting of patients.
   
• Makes appropriate referrals to outside agencies for follow up care, fosters positive patient relations with patients and patients families by assuring that they are treated courteously and promptly.
   
• May provide Targeted Case Management services and engage in outreach and other activities to enhance services to Medi-Cal beneficiaries.

Experience:
None required. One (1) year of responsible vocational nursing experience preferably in a general acute care hospital is desirable.

Education:
Completion of all academic requirements to become a Vocational Nurse in the State of California and possession of a certificate as an Interim Permittee (VNIP).

OR

License: 
Possession of a valid State of California Licensed Vocational Nurses License.

Note: The Interim Permit Nurse incumbent must pass the exam for licensure as a Vocational Nurse within six months of appointment or they will be terminated or demoted as appropriate.

• Operate a personal computer and other office and medical equipment.
   
• Communicate effectively with others in person and over the telephone.
   
• Analyze data, interpret directions, procedures and regulations, and develop appropriate responses.
   
• Perform job duties under stressful conditions and respond appropriately to situations.
   
• Maintain confidential information in accordance with legal standards and/or County regulations.
   
• Lift, move and restrain patients.
   
• Frequent use of depth perception, peripheral vision and color perception.
   
• Frequently lift, carry, reach, push, pull, twist and manipulate large and small objects.
   
• Frequent use of hand-eye coordination.
   
• Frequent use of data entry device including repetitive hand and arm motion.
   
• Normal dexterity, frequent holding and grasping.
  
  
• Regular attendance is an essential function.

Knowledge of:

• The requirements of duties related to passing medications.
   
• First aid assistance to render in emergencies.
   
• Methods and techniques of infection control.
   
• Patient hygiene.
   
• Methods of handling sterile materials and dressings.

Ability to:

• Keep accurate records.
   
• Administer enemas, irrigations and catheterizations.
   
• Understand and follow written and oral instructions of a technical nature.
   
• Interpret significant and critical changes in patient's condition.
   
• Maintain positive patient relations with patients and their families.

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