Telemetry UTower, Full Time

University of Miami•Miami, FL

12d•Onsite

About The Position

The University of Miami Hospital Medical Surgical Telemetry Department has an exciting opportunity for a Certified Nursing Assistant. Provides for patients’ personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves and assisting with showers. Assists with meals and feeds patients, ambulates, turns, and positions patients, and provides fresh water and nourishment between meals. Administers enemas, douches, non-sterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, therapeutic and sitz baths and applies restraints. Performs sugar and acetone urine testing, specimen collection, and post-mortem care. Answers patients’ call lights and requests promptly. Maintains a safe and attractive environment for patients and staff and transports patients and equipment. Reports patient conditions to the assigned nurse to ensure professional assessment. M easures and records food and liquid intake and output and checks and records vital signs. Provides patient help with walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed. A dheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets. The Certified Nursing Assistant performs standard patient care activities under the supervision of a registered nurse. More specifically, the incumbent assists patients in dressing and undressing, bathing, and eating, and collects noninvasive body fluid specimens or gathers vital signs. Additionally, this employee aids physicians and nursing staff members with procedures and documents patient interactions .

Requirements

Education: High School Diploma
Graduate from an accredited school of Certified Nursing Assistant
Certification and Licensing: C.N.A. License; Basic Life Support Certification (American Heart Association)
Experience: Minimum 5 years of relevant experience

Responsibilities

Provides for patients’ personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves and assisting with showers.
Assists with meals and feeds patients, ambulates, turns, and positions patients, and provides fresh water and nourishment between meals.
Administers enemas, douches, non-sterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, therapeutic and sitz baths and applies restraints.
Performs sugar and acetone urine testing, specimen collection, and post-mortem care.
Answers patients’ call lights and requests promptly.
Maintains a safe and attractive environment for patients and staff and transports patients and equipment.
Reports patient conditions to the assigned nurse to ensure professional assessment.
Measures and records food and liquid intake and output and checks and records vital signs.
Provides patient help with walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed.
Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.
Assists patients in dressing and undressing, bathing, and eating, and collects noninvasive body fluid specimens or gathers vital signs.
Aids physicians and nursing staff members with procedures and documents patient interactions