Medical Clinic LPN - Los Angeles, CA, United States - University of California - Los Angeles Health

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    In this role you will provide direct patient care for diverse patient population within multiple Medicine practices, working with faculty physicians, Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner fellows, residents, medical students, nursing staff, patient services staff and ancillary personnel.

    Work in a high paced environment assisting with Dermatologic Surgeries, procedures, and cosmetic services.
    33/hourly

    Possess active license issued by the State of CA Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners with Intravenous Therapy and blood withdrawal certification.


    • Knowledge of dermatologic terminology and disease condition sufficient to communicate treatment status with patients and their families, medical faculty and staff, and other health professionals.
    • Ability to keep a running inventory
    • Knowledge of surgical dressing applications.
    • Knowledge of operating and maintaining standard surgical medical equipment
    * training new employees.

    • Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with staff.
    • Skill in working as part of a team - 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's 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
    Travel as needed to Santa Monica or Westwood as assigned by manager.
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