Nurse Aide Training Program - Student Aide

CHSGa•Butler, GA

About The Position

The Student Aide learns and demonstrates patient-care procedures while assisting patients and supporting nursing center operations at Taylor County Health & Rehab. Duties include helping with admissions, discharges, transfers, meals, personal care, mobility, vital signs, documentation, and other routine care under established procedures. The role also involves protecting patient rights and privacy, following safety and infection-control requirements, participating in training and surveys, and contributing to the System’s collaborative work. The position requires communication that is professional, helpful, and caring toward patients, families, visitors, and coworkers.

Requirements

Ability to communicate well with associates, patients, family members, and visitors, using a warm, friendly, helpful, caring, and professional manner.
Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence and speak effectively before groups of customers or associates.
Ability to perform basic arithmetic using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to apply common-sense understanding to written, oral, or diagrammed instructions and solve problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word.
A high school diploma or equivalent is preferred.

Nice To Haves

A high school diploma or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Learn procedures and assist with admissions, discharges, and transfers as requested; prepare rooms for new admissions and use care plans.
Assist with meal preparation and service, including identifying dietary restrictions, recording meal consumption, feeding as needed, and providing after-meal care.
Learn and demonstrate procedures for bed making, bathing, dressing, hair care, nail care, shaving, oral care, denture care, and other personal care.
Learn and provide skin care and help prevent skin breakdown; identify common sites of breakdown and report concerns.
Learn and demonstrate proper use and release of restraints in accordance with physician orders, including providing exercise.
Provide catheter care, record intake and output, offer fluids, assist with bowel and bladder training, toileting, bedpan use, and colostomy care.
Take and record vital signs, collect stool and urine samples, and document care according to established procedures.
Use proper body mechanics and techniques for moving, transferring, walking, and providing range-of-motion assistance to patients.
Recognize signs and symptoms of abuse or changes in a patient's condition and report them appropriately.
Greet patients upon admission, assist them as requested, receive and give reports on patient status, and escort patients to and from activities.
Learn and assist with care for dying patients and post-mortem care; provide routine care for bedfast patients, including turning.
Participate in nursing center surveys and any required follow-up reports.
Attend continuing education programs and mandatory in-services.
Honor patients' rights, including fair treatment, self-determination, individuality, privacy, property, civil rights, and the right to wage complaints.
Comply with the Corporate Compliance Program and all Privacy and Security programs.
Report job-related occupational hazards, including exposure to blood and body fluids, and follow safety, fire-prevention, smoking, and infection-control procedures.
Promote the System's image and reputation through servant leadership and direct, open communication.
Contribute to committees, workgroups, project management, and other collaborative System efforts.
Perform other related duties as necessary or directed by the supervisor to support the success of the System.