Licensed Vocational Nurse Citywide - H00018

Company Overview

The Department of Public Health prioritizes equitable and inclusive access to quality healthcare for its community and values diversity in its workforce. All employees work to advance equity, inclusion, and diversity with a focus on race, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexuality, disability, and immigration status.

• Application Opening:
  October 12, 2022
• Salary: $91,650 – $111,384 annually
• Recruitment
  -2312-H00018
• Appointment Type:
  Permanent Civil Service

• Administers nursing care to patients under physicians’ or registered nurses’ instructions; prepares, administers, and records medications and injections.
• Obtains patient histories, observes, reports, and records physiological and psychosocial signs, and takes vital signs.
• Maintains accurate medical records and documents patient progress to meet legal requirements and support follow‑up care.
• Maintains a safe, secure, and clean clinical environment, including adequate supplies and equipment.
• Provides direct patient care to make patients clean and comfortable, and may serve and feed patients or assist with elimination functions.
• Instructs and counsels patients on physical self‑care and emotional needs related to test and specimen collection.
• Understands human relationships among patients, families, and other health‑care personnel.
• Recognizes the effect of social, economic, cultural, and religious factors on patients and their families.
• When working in specialized areas, performs specialized procedures as approved by nursing service policy after receiving appropriate training.
• May perform other duties as assigned or required.

• Valid California Vocational Nurse License issued by the California State Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners (permanent, temporary, or interim).
• All other qualifications applicable to a 2312 Licensed Vocational Nurse position.

The City and County of San Francisco encourages women, minorities and persons with disabilities to apply. Applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition (including genetic information), HIV/AIDS status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, or any other protected category under the law.