LVN - Family Practice - San Marcos
San Marcos, California
Health system employer
Posted Aug 11
- Shift
- 8-hour days
- Hours a week
- 40
- Unit
- L&D
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- 8-hour days · 5 a week · 40 hours
- Term
- Permanent
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- LVN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
- Overtime
- $33.39/hr
The median for nursing in California is $49/hr, across 1921 postings. It covers every nursing role in the state, so it is a bearing, not a like-for-like comparison.
About this role
Scripps Coastal Medical Center makes it easy and convenient for our community to receive exceptional health care in San Diego. Our primary care physicians and their teams provide annual exams, preventive health screenings, wellness information and diagnostic services for you and your family.
With offices throughout San Diego County, our doctors specialize in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology. Some locations also provide rheumatology and orthopedics care. When further specialty care is needed, you have access to an extensive network of medical experts throughout the region. Scripps also provides health education resources, including weight management programs, nutrition and fitness classes, and programs for chronic conditions, such as diabetes.
Read the full posting
This is a benefited, full-time position (80 hours per pay period) with an 8-hour DAY shift schedule located at our Scripps Coastal Medical Center in San Marcos. This position will work Monday through Friday from 8am-5pm. You will enjoy comprehensive benefits that cover health & wellness, career development, and retirement options among other benefits.
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.
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
- San Marcos, California
- Rent against this pay
- 41% of monthly gross
- Local household income
- $109,377/yr
- State price level
- 11% above the national average
$2,348 median rent against $5,720 a month at $33/hr for 40 hours a week, before tax. Census ACS 2024.
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
California index 110.7, where 100 is the national average.
San Marcos sits in San Diego's North County, offering nurses a relaxed suburban base with easy access to beaches, inland hiking trails, and nearby coastal cities. California State University San Marcos anchors the community, while the surrounding hills give the area a spacious, outdoorsy feel. Commuting to major hospital systems in greater San Diego is manageable by car.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 Regional Price Parities.
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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.…
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