LVN - Psych ITP - Mesa Vista Hospital - Nights - PT

Responsibilities

• Required Qualifications
• AHA Basic Life Support for Healthcare Professional (AHA BLS Healthcare) - American Heart Association -REQUIRED
• California Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN) - CA Board of Vocational Nursing & Psychiatric Technicians -REQUIRED

Requirements

• 1 Year LVN experience in an acute care setting or related area.
• Experience in the respective department.
• Vocational Nurse IV Therapy/Blood Withdrawal Certification - Various-Employee provides certificate -PREFERRED
• Essential Functions
• Assessment data
• Collects assessment data (using observation, palpation and auscultation per Practice Act) per department guidelines of care, including age/cultural specific considerations.
• Documents data collected.
• Communicates/contributes data collected to RN for analysis and interpretation.
• Communication and coordination
• Communicates with other healthcare team members to coordinate patient care activities, workflow, and patient progress.
• Follows through with identified actions/referrals.
• Coordinates schedules and patient care needs with RN and other staff to ensure continuity and frequency of visits.
• Documentation
• Communicates patient and family care needs through documentation.
• Documentation per department/entity guideline of care and policies and procedures.
• Implements plan of care
• Implements plan of care per department guidelines: Refers practices outside of scope to RN.
• Seeks out resources when appropriate in new situations.
• Collaborates with RNs when nursing decisions required in implementation of the plan of care in accordance with compliance and scope of practice.
• Informal teaching
• Gives constructive feedback to peers regarding work performance and notifies supervisor of suspected performance issues.
• Provides unit specific information to students, floats, travelers/registry personnel and documents appropriately.
• Documents informal teaching.
• Patient advocate
• Encourage patient and family participation in decision making.
• Acts to uphold individual/family rights.
• Patient and family education
• Identifies learning needs including barriers/readiness.
• Recognizes barriers to communication with patient and family and seeks interdisciplinary expertise to establish a therapeutic relationship.
• Collaborates with the RN in development of individualized teaching plan.
• Implements plan of care (IPOC & IPER) using appropriate resources.
• Collects data indicative of patient/family learning in response to teaching plan.
• Collaborates with RN in evaluates patient/family learning through use of adult-learning theory and revises plan as appropriate. (e.g. documented in IPER, IPOC, discharge teaching, etc.)
• Plan of care
• Demonstrates understanding of patient/family goals.
• Makes recommendations to the multidisciplinary team in development of the patient's plan of care.
• Updates written plan of care (IPOC) per direction of RN.
• Supports evaluation care plan
• Collects data indicative of patient/family response to care per department guidelines.
• Reports data/information to team members in determining the need to alter goals and interventions.
• Contributes observations and data to patient care conferences.
• Documents patients' response to care.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Proficient clinical skill and nursing judgment.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills.

Benefits

Additional Information

Hours : Shift Start Time: 11 PM Shift End Time: 7:30 AM AWS Hours Requirement: 8/40 - 8 Hour Shift Additional Shift Information: 0.6 FTE 32 hours Weekend Requirements: Every Other On-Call Required: No Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum): $30.370 - $37.950 - $42.510 This position is covered by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with SEIU-UHW. As part of the terms of employment, employees in this role are required to join the union within 31 days of hire and remain a member (e.g. dues paying, fee paying, religious exception contributor) for the duration of the collective bargaining agreement. In alignment with the SEIU CBA, this position will be posted for 7 days internally from 6/3/2026 to 6/11/2026 and available only to existing members of the ratified SEIU Bargaining Unit with a contract expiration date of 9/30/2027.

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