LVN Jobs in So. Cal

Alot of the LVN's I worked with at a convalescent home in los angeles worked at the VA hospital close to westwood Maybe you should try there. They had also started working there after just graduating.

KDP07
In order to get into the local hospitals here in Glendale/Pasadena, you first have to be IV Certified. The hospitals do not pay for this. It's a 3 day 8hr class, and it is good for 24 CEUs. Look in the LA Times classified section and you will see right before the actual job listings, almost a page of all nursing recertification and classes. I've worked at Glendale Memorial, Glendale Adventist, Verdugo Hills and Huntington Mememorial (ALL of the hospitals in this area - and that is a must be even be considered.) HMH has positions avail in the psych unit, and Glendale Adventist uses LVN in the float pool, but be prepared to do primary care, because that is what they do there. Verdugo Hills uses LVNs as extra help (Per Diem), but again, you may have to hang IV fluids, and they'll expect that you can do that.
Go to these hospitals and look on the employment boards. You can go online, but if you go, and see other employees there (a lot of nurses are looking at the boards in order to see if different units are avail) and you may be able to ask someone a few questions. I'm not sure about Arcadia Methodist Hosp, but that is the next nearest (fairly large) hospital to your area. Hope this helps in your search.

Hey KDP07
I like HMH better. Due to the large Armenian (excuse spelling if wrong) in Glendale, more patients spoke that language at Glendale Adventist, and it was hard to care for them, and the nurses that did speak Armenien were upset and bothered that you had to keep asking them what the patients said/needed. The words didn't even sound like what they needed from you and it was hard to care for them. The report system at shift change is hard to comprehend d/t them taping the report. If you can't understand what someone is saying, you can't ask them, because it's on a tape. AND they still COUNT narcotics with the big sheet of paper that went out with the stone age. They need pyxis machines there. HMH is better, but HMH is really trying to get rid of the LVN's like they did in the 80s. They got rid of them for approx 10 years, but then the RNs couldn't (or didn't want to - is a better word) do the primary patient care when the PCAs didn't come to work or called off. So I'm not sure of the future at HMH. There is a lawsuit (in was in all of the newspapers where HMH owed it's employees $36,000,000.00 in back salaries (and that is MILLIONs of dollars) so I'm sure they're going to be cutting back somewhere, and it will probably start with the LVNs that are remaining. But as of right now, they're still hiring in Psych, and if you can get in the door, you can always go back to school to be an RN, and have a great job that's kind of close to your home if you in the Pas area. Hope this was more informational. Do you speak Armenien?? I don't, and I just know a mouthful of Spanish.

If you don't mind traveling a little, Northridge Hospital hires LVNs, especially in their float pool. Temple Hospital (don't know where it is) ran an ad for LVNs a couple of days ago. The ad said they wanted 6 months experience.