Lvn Jobs in Orange County

About The Position

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
• Current LPN/LVN license as required by the state.
• CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification; training is available upon hire and offered by the facility.

Nice To Haves

• One or more years of nursing experience within the clinical area of service provided by the facility is preferred.
• First aid may be required based on the state or facility.

Responsibilities

• Monitor patient health and provide basic care within the LPN/LVN scope of practice, using the nursing process to carry out care plan objectives and goals.
• Model customer-service expectations and respond urgently to patient-safety concerns.
• Collaborate with others to meet patients’ physical, biopsychosocial, age-related, developmental, and cultural needs; acknowledge and work to resolve customer complaints when needs are not met.
• Provide for patients’ basic comfort and implement individualized nursing interventions in their plans of care.
• Apply appropriate interventions to help patients progress toward wellness and maintain wellness.
• Discuss care with patients, listen to their concerns, and report status changes and concerns to registered nurses and doctors.
• Communicate therapeutically and professionally with patients, visitors, coworkers, and others involved in patient treatment.
• Deliver medications safely in accordance with policies and procedures, physicians’ orders, and current practice.
• Maintain professional nursing practice standards in accordance with facility policies and procedures, governing and credentialing bodies, performance-improvement standards, and psychiatric nursing standards.
• Thoroughly and accurately report and document patient symptoms, responses, and progress.
• Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.

Benefits

• $2,500 sign-on bonus