Float Sr LVN - Dermatology, Westwood

In this role, you will provide direct patient care for a diverse patient population. You will collaborate with clinic management, administration, faculty physicians, fellows, residents, medical students, and other clinical staff-including LVNs, MAs, and ancillary personnel-to deliver comprehensive patient care.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide direct patient care for a diverse patient population.
• Maintain high standards of care and ensure patient safety.
• Recognize and respond appropriately to normal and abnormal signs and symptoms of life-threatening emergencies.
• Coordinate and prioritize tasks in alignment with departmental protocols.

• Possess an active license issued by the State of CA Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners with Intravenous Therapy and blood withdrawal certification.
• Possession of active CPR BLS from the American Red Cross or American Heart Association.
• Knowledge of dermatologic terminology and disease conditions sufficient to communicate treatment status with patients, families, medical faculty, staff, and other health professionals.
• Ability to keep a running inventory.
• Knowledge of UCLA forms, patient admissions, etc.
• Knowledge of surgical dressing applications.
• Knowledge of lasers.
• Skill in setting priorities that accurately reflect the relative importance of job responsibilities.
• Knowledge of surgical instruments.
• Knowledge of operating and maintaining standard surgical medical equipment.
• Skill in working independently and following through on assignments with minimal direction.
• Skill in performing under the stress of frequent interruptions and/or distractions.
• Skill in performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature.
• Skill in analyzing information, problem situations, practices, or procedures to define the problem or objective and formulate logical and objective conclusions.
• Skill in organizing workflow to accomplish established objectives, delegating responsibility, and training new employees.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with staff.
• Skill in working as part of a team and collaborating with other staff members.
• Skill in fostering a stimulating, accepting learning environment.
• Skill in speaking to persons of various backgrounds to explain policies, procedures, and treatment in the clinic.
• Ability to speak on a one-to-one basis using appropriate vocabulary and grammar to obtain and explain medical treatment procedures.
• Skill in reading medical documents such as patient charts, biopsy results, and routine correspondence from health professionals.
• Skill in reading English words, simple sentences, and numbers on documents so they can properly be compiled and filed.
• Skill in writing concise, logical, grammatically correct analytical reports to explain patient progress and charting.
• Skill in writing grammatically correct routine business correspondence such as brief transmittal memoranda.
• Knowledge of medical terminology to record pre-admit diagnosis on admissions forms.

• Ability to float between Westwood and Santa Monica Dermatology Clinics.