Medical Edge Recruitment has an immediate opening for a LVN (Licensed Vocational Nurse)

Specialty: Behavioral Health
Location: Porterville, CA
Facility type: Treatment Facility
Pay rate: $42
Start Date: 2/12/2025
Type: 8 Weeks
Shift/Hours: 8 hour shifts (days, evenings, nights )


Duties Include:

• May perform nursing procedures as regulated by licensure and certification such as: administering medications by any route except intravenous and intrathecal; performing treatment and procedures including passage of nasogastric tubes, administration of enteral feedings, monitoring of blood glucose, urinary catheterization, and administration of enemas;
• maintaining infection control by using universal precautions;
• collecting and documenting in the interdisciplinary notes data such as vital signs, forensic client/patient/inmate behavior, forensic client/patient/inmate response to medications, nursing care, and treatment plan;
• documenting significant changes in forensic client's/patient's/inmate's behavior and health status in the interdisciplinary notes and reporting those significant changes to both a registered nurse or physician and the assigned supervisor;
• demonstrating competent and safe utilization of unit and hospital emergency care equipment and techniques; participating as part of the treatment team with other disciplines by contributing to the overall treatment program for the forensic client/patient/inmate;
• participating in forensic client/patient/inmate activities including unit routines and specific group activities, as outlined in nursing care plans/Individual Program Plans; using therapeutic nursing interventions and modalities to assist forensic client/patient/inmate in regaining and improving their physical adaptive skills and decreasing maladaptive behavior;
• assisting rehabilitation therapists in occupational, recreational, and industrial therapy programs for forensic clients/patients/inmates; motivating and assisting forensic clients/patients/inmates to develop self-reliance in activities of daily living;
• escorting forensic clients/patients/inmates to intramural or extramural medical, health, or other community services; demonstrating awareness of forensic client/patient/inmate rights and the potential for forensic client/patient/inmate abuse; promptly reporting any adverse behavior, forensic client/patient/inmate abuse, or suspected abuse by staff;
• observing and intervening in instances of disruptive or assaultive behavior.

Requirements:

• Current and valid LPN license in California
• Minimum 1-2 years of experience
• Current BLS certification is required
• Associates degree from an accredited school of nursing is required
• COVID VACCINATION is preferred but will accept exemption