LPN/RN - Now Hiring

Role Title: Licensed Practical Nurse / Licensed Vocational Nurse (LPN/LVN)
Location: Ontario, CA 91764
Pay Rate: $33.13/hr.
Employment Type: Per Diem

Job Summary
We are seeking a skilled LPN/LVN to provide care to critically ill patients requiring continuous monitoring and advanced clinical support. This role includes bedside and remote patient monitoring, administering medications, and collaborating with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to deliver safe, high-quality patient care.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor patients using cardiac and respiratory devices: heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation

• Provide bedside or centralized monitoring from the nursing station

• Administer medications and provide clinical support as ordered

• Calculate medication dosages and monitor patient response

• Administer continuous medication infusions (non-titrated vasoactive agents, anti-arrhythmic agents, platelet inhibitors, insulin)

• Monitor patients before, during, and after diagnostic and interventional procedures, including:

  • TEE, cardiac catheterization with PCI, cardioversion, bronchoscopy, EGD, PEG placement, chest tube insertion

• Recognize cardiopulmonary emergencies and initiate standardized interventions

• Perform hemodynamic monitoring, including equipment setup, troubleshooting, and recognizing patient instability

• Interpret arterial blood gases (ABGs) and communicate findings to the care team

• Assess ventilated patients and manage non-invasive oxygen delivery systems (oral airways, BiPAP, nasal CPAP)

• Support patients on long-term mechanical ventilation, including ventilator weaning

• Monitor patients receiving renal therapies (hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, continuous bladder irrigation, stents, urostomies)

• Recognize indications for enteral and parenteral nutrition and manage related complications

• Support patient families to facilitate safe transition from hospital to home

Required Competencies & Professional Characteristics

• Basic and Advanced Life Support proficiency

• Dysrhythmia monitoring, interpretation, and treatment

• Strong patient advocacy and clinical judgment

• Minimum 1 year of long term acute care experience

• Compassionate, patient-centered care practices

• Systems thinking and interdisciplinary collaboration

• Cultural responsiveness and respect for diversity

• Commitment to clinical inquiry and continuous learning

• Ability to educate patients and their families

Position Details

• Per diem position

• Candidate must be able to start within 2 weeks of offer

Facility / Position Requirements

• Active California LPN/LVN license or multi-state compact license

• IV Certification

• Current BLS certification through the American Heart Association

• Up-to-date immunizations

• Ability to pass drug screen and background check

Pre-Screening Questions (AI Should Ask These):

1. Do you hold an active California LPN/LVN license?

2. Do you have current BLS certification?

3. Do you have 1 year of Long Term Acute Care experience?

4. Do you have IV certification?

5. Are you experienced in cardiac, respiratory, and hemodynamic monitoring?

6. Can you administer continuous medication infusions and monitor patient response?

7. Are you comfortable supporting patients on ventilators and non-invasive oxygen systems?

8. Are you able to start within 2 weeks of offer and pass a drug screen/background check?

9. Do you have experience assisting with diagnostic and interventional procedures (TEE, cardiac Cath, bronchoscopy, etc.)?

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