Inpatient Nursing Assistant-OBGYN-WWH
About The Position
Provides nursing assistance to doctors and nurses in caring for and treating patients across the life span, including medical, surgical, pediatric, psychiatric, and obstetrical patients. Performs a broad range of inpatient administrative and clinical duties within the position’s scope of practice, training, and applicable rules and regulations. Routine duties include providing health care services to individuals eligible under the self-governance compact and funding agreement between the Cherokee Nation and the United States, executed under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. The role provides personal nursing care and diagnostic support, performs simple treatments, charting, and patient teaching tasks, and communicates information and instructions to patients. It includes assisting with patient screening, admission, and discharge; supporting diagnostic examinations; collecting specimens; taking vital signs and measurements; performing EKGs; and monitoring patients receiving treatments. The assistant maintains a clean, safe patient environment, keeps supplies stocked, performs appropriate clerical work, follows professional and ethical standards, and protects confidential patient information in compliance with HIPAA. Additional duties may be assigned after formal orientation and competency assessment.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED, six months of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- No prior experience required.
- Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos; write simple correspondence; and present information effectively in one-on-one and small-group situations.
- Ability to add and subtract two-digit numbers and multiply and divide with 10s and 100s, including using American money and measurements of weight, volume, and distance.
- Knowledge of database software, human resource systems, internet software, order-processing systems, and payroll systems.
- Ability to use common-sense understanding to follow detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions and address problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
- Basic Life Support (BLS), obtainable through orientation and required to be maintained throughout employment.
- Knowledge of grammar, spelling, punctuation, and medical terminology.
- Must meet and maintain pre-employment and periodic background investigation and adjudication requirements for childcare.
- Must comply with HIPAA regulations and maintain strict confidentiality of client information.
- Must not be under sanction by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General or the General Services Administration, or listed on the specified OIG or GSA exclusion lists.
Responsibilities
- Provide personal nursing care, including feeding, bathing, lifting, turning, oral care, nail care, hair care, and related hygiene duties.
- Recognize and report gross changes in a patient's condition.
- Take, record, and report vital-sign deviations to the registered nurse; collect, label, and transport specimens; and measure and record intake and output when requested.
- Assist doctors with diagnostic examinations by positioning and draping patients and passing instruments and supplies when requested.
- Collect and prepare laboratory specimens and perform laboratory tests when trained and competent; do not perform assessments.
- Change simple, non-complex dressings; apply simple dressings, binders, and local heat or cold; and observe and report wound condition and drainage when requested.
- Remove sutures after a licensed nurse or other professional has performed an assessment.
- Assist in monitoring patients receiving treatments and report deviations to a nurse.
- Assist with screening, admitting, and discharging patients; gather and record specific patient information; and take and record vital signs and body measurements.
- Perform EKGs.
- Reinforce instructions given to patients by physicians and registered nurses, and provide patient information, instructions, and prevention reminders.
- Maintain a clean and safe patient environment; change occupied beds; maintain supply cupboards, utility rooms, and used equipment; and sort supplies and linens.
- Report defective equipment and deficient supplies.
- Perform clerical duties as appropriate, including printing summaries, patient labels, and face sheets; applying armbands; and discharging patients from the computer system.
- Maintain inventory and restock supplies in patient rooms.
- Adhere to professional and ethical standards and maintain HIPAA compliance and confidentiality of personal health information.
- Perform other assigned duties after formal orientation and competency assessment.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
