LVN - Dermatology - La Mesa
La Mesa, California
Health system employer
Posted Aug 12
- Shift
- 8-hour days
- Hours a week
- 40
- Unit
- Dermatology
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- 8-hour days · 5 a week · 40 hours
- Term
- Permanent
- Setting
- Clinic
- Accepts
- LVN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
The median for nursing in California is $49/hr, across 1912 postings. It covers every nursing role in the state, so it is a bearing, not a like-for-like comparison.
About this role
Caring for San Diegans since 1924, Scripps Clinic is San Diego’s first choice for exceptional primary care and highly specialized and coordinated specialty care. Scripps Clinic offers a comprehensive range of medical and surgical services that are nationally recognized for quality, excellence and innovation. From primary to specialty care, our team-based model is designed to provide the best possible care and outcomes for you and your family. More than 900 providers and physicians provide 1.5 million patient visits a year coordinated through an integrated electronic health record.
This is a benefited, full-time position (80 hours per pay period) with an 8-hour day shift schedule located at our Scripps Clinic in La Mesa. This position will work from 7:30am - 4:30pm Monday through Friday. You will enjoy comprehensive benefits that cover health & wellness, career development, and retirement options among other benefits.
Read the full posting
At Scripps Health, you will experience the pride, support, and respect that has been repeatedly recognized as one of the nation’s Top 100 Places to Work.
You will thrive in an environment where team members are engaged and committed to providing excellent care and making a difference in the lives of their patients and their teammates So, if you’re open to change, go ahead and unlock your potential.
Why join Scripps Health?
Award-winning workplace
- Made Becker's 150 Top Places to Work for 2024
- #78 in PEOPLE Companies that Care 2023
- Nearly a quarter of our employees have been with Scripps Health for over 10 years
As a Licensed Vocational Nurse, you will
Perform patient assessments and care tasks, including emergency procedures and medication administration as appropriate. Educate patients and families and document patient interactions.
Practice infection control and contribute to the team as necessary to ensure quality patient care within own scope of practice.
Work in a high-volume setting in collaboration with 3 MA's and the provider.
Assist with biopsies, procedures and scribe.
Draw up anesthesia for the provider.
Required
Qualifications
Current California LVN license American Heart Association BLS for Health Care Provider Must be able to speak, read, write, and follow instructions in English. Excellent interpersonal skills.
Preferred
Qualifications
One year of outpatient experience as LVN or LPN Experience in an outpatient setting
At Scripps Health, you will experience the pride, support and respect of an organization that has been repeatedly recognized as one of the nation’s Top 100 Places to Work. You’ll be surrounded by people committed to making a difference in the lives of their patients and their teammates. So if you’re open to change, go ahead and unlock your potential.
Position Pay Range: $33.39-$48.28/hour
Sourced from Scripps Health’s careers page.
Requirements
- Current California LVN license
- American Heart Association BLS for Health Care Provider
- Must be able to speak, read, write, and follow instructions in English.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Preferred
- One year of outpatient experience as LVN or LPN
- Experience in an outpatient setting
- At Scripps Health, you will experience the pride, support and respect of an organization that has been repeatedly recognized as one of the nation’s Top 100 Places to Work.
- You’ll be surrounded by people committed to making a difference in the lives of their patients and their teammates. So if you’re open to change, go ahead and unlock your potential.
- Position Pay Range: $33.39-$48.28/hour
Benefits
- Health insurance
Place
- City
- La Mesa, California
- Rent against this pay
- 36% of monthly gross
- Local household income
- $95,028/yr
- State price level
- 11% above the national average
- Address
- 3835 Avocado Blvd, La Mesa, CA 91941, USA
$2,049 median rent against $5,720 a month at $33/hr for 40 hours a week, before tax.
all local households, not nurse pay
California index 110.7, where 100 is the national average.
La Mesa, known as the "Jewel of the Hills," sits just east of San Diego with a relaxed suburban feel, tree-lined streets, and a charming downtown village. Nurses enjoy a sunny climate, easy freeway access to major hospital systems, and Mount Helix trails nearby for unwinding after shifts.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
How this role fits you
Add your preferences
Choose your specialty, travel preference, and license stage to see how this role fits.
The work you want
Where you'd go
Where you are
About the employer
Scripps Health is a nonprofit health care system based in San Diego, California, operating five hospital campuses, 30 outpatient centers and clinics, and hundreds of affiliated physician offices. Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas has served North County's coastal communities since 1978.…
Worth asking
The posting doesn’t answer these. Good ones to ask a recruiter or in the interview.
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for weekend, holiday, call, and rotation?
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
