Nurse Aide Training Program - Student Aide

CHSGa • Butler, GA

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About The Position

The Student Aide participates in a nurse aide training program at Taylor County Health & Rehab and learns and demonstrates procedures for providing direct patient care. Duties include supporting patients with meals, personal hygiene, mobility, toileting, skin care, vital signs, and routine care, as well as documenting and reporting patient information. The role also involves following patient rights, privacy, safety, infection-control, and organizational compliance requirements; attending required education and in-services; and contributing to collaborative work across the System.

The position requires effective, courteous communication with associates, patients, families, and visitors. A high school diploma or equivalent is preferred. The job requires reading and interpreting instructions, writing routine reports and correspondence, communicating with groups, performing basic arithmetic, applying common-sense reasoning to standardized situations, and using Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Word.

Physical demands include regularly sitting, talking, or hearing; frequently walking, handling objects, and reaching; and occasionally standing. Close and distance vision and the ability to adjust focus are required. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities.

Requirements

• A high school diploma or equivalent is preferred.
• Ability to communicate professionally and warmly with associates, patients, family members, and visitors; respond helpfully to concerns and answer questions appropriately.
• Ability to read and interpret safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; write routine reports and correspondence; and speak effectively before groups.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to apply common-sense understanding to written, oral, or diagram-based instructions and address problems involving concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word.
• Ability to meet the stated physical demands, with reasonable accommodations where applicable.

Nice To Haves

• High school diploma or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Learn procedures and assist with patient admissions, discharges, and transfers as requested.
• Prepare patient rooms for new admissions and understand and use care plans.
• Learn to identify basic food groups, understand diet cards and dietary restrictions, record meal consumption, assist with meals, and provide after-meal care.
• Learn and demonstrate procedures for making occupied and unoccupied beds; bathing; incontinence, perineal, oral, denture, hair, nail, shaving, and skin care; and dressing patients.
• Learn to identify skin breakdown and help prevent it; use and release restraints in accordance with physician orders and provide exercise.
• Provide catheter care, record intake and output, offer fluids, assist with bowel and bladder training, bedpan toileting, and colostomy care.
• Take and record vital signs, use proper body mechanics when moving or transferring patients, provide range-of-motion assistance, and collect stool and urine samples.
• Recognize signs and symptoms of abuse or changes in a patient's condition and document and report information according to established procedures.
• Greet patients upon admission, assist them as requested, receive and give reports on patient status, and escort patients to and from activities as requested.
• Assist patients with walking, including use of assistive devices; provide routine care for bedfast patients; and assist with care of dying patients and post-mortem care as requested.
• Participate in Nursing Center surveys and required follow-up reports.
• Attend continuing education programs and mandatory in-services.
• Honor patients' rights, including fair and equitable treatment, self-determination, individuality, privacy, property, civil rights, and the right to submit 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, infection-control, and equipment procedures.
• Promote the System's image and reputation through servant leadership and open communication; contribute to committees, workgroups, project management, and other collaborative efforts.
• Perform other related duties as directed or necessary to ensure the success of the System.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED