Nurse Assistant - Inpatient Rehab - Day Shift

Missouri Delta Medical Center • Sikeston, MO

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About The Position

The Nurse Assistant provides basic nursing care to inpatient rehabilitation patients, assists with activities of daily living, and helps maintain a safe, clean, and orderly environment. The role includes supporting mobility, meals, monitoring, admissions and discharges, diagnostic procedures, and other patient-care activities while communicating changes in patient condition to the team leader or charge nurse.

The Nurse Assistant explains procedures to patients, provides for privacy and confidentiality, documents care accurately, responds to call lights, and collaborates with the health care team. The position also includes one-on-one patient monitoring when assigned and requires knowledge of safe patient-care equipment use and age-appropriate care.

Requirements

• BLS training.
• Knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.

Nice To Haves

• Completion of an approved Certified Nurse Assistant course preferred.
• Previous Nurse Assistant experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assist patients with activities of daily living, provide basic nursing care, and maintain a safe and clean environment.
• Explain procedures to patients before they begin and participate in patient instruction as needed.
• Engage with patients by smiling and talking with them, including patients who appear unresponsive.
• Serve meals and assist with or feed patients at an unhurried pace.
• Turn, transfer, and ambulate patients according to activity orders.
• Measure and accurately record intake and output.
• Provide post-mortem care according to policy.
• Obtain and record temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and weights as ordered.
• Keep hallways, the nurses station, clean and dirty utility rooms, linen carts, and patient environments neat and orderly.
• Report abnormal intake or output, vital signs, elimination, or changes in patient condition to the team leader or charge nurse.
• Promote good public relations for the nursing department and hospital.
• Record nursing care clearly and accurately.
• Respect the confidentiality of patient-, hospital-, and physician-related information and provide patient privacy at all times.
• Participate in Quality Improvement.
• Assist with admissions, transfers, and discharges; collect and document admission data and secure patient belongings.
• Assist with diagnostic tests, special procedures, and specimen collection as required.
• Communicate and collaborate with health care team members to provide quality patient care.
• Competently perform core and unit-specific clinical skills.
• Answer call lights promptly and ensure personal articles and call lights are within patients’ reach and available for use.
• Use patient-care equipment properly and safely.
• Use basic problem-solving skills to prevent or resolve issues.
• Provide one-on-one patient monitoring when assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed