Nurse's Aide (40 Hour)
About The Position
The Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) is seeking a full-time Nurse's Aide for Rocky Hill. This position involves providing hands-on patient care support, including feeding, bathing, positioning, lifting, and responding to daily needs. The role also includes recording and monitoring vital signs, observing patient conditions, and documenting changes. Maintaining a safe and clean patient environment, ensuring proper equipment use, and supporting clinical operations by collecting specimens, transporting patients, and preparing charts are also key aspects of the position. The Connecticut DVA has a long history of caring for veterans and their dependents, operating under the principle of 'Serving Those Who Served.'
Requirements
- Certification as a Nurse's Aide
- Considerable interpersonal skills
- Ability to work with basic principles of nursing including infection control practices
- Ability to deal with physically and chronically ill
- Ability to learn safety and fire procedures
Nice To Haves
- Experience working in a Skilled Nursing Facility (nursing home)
- Experience providing nursing services to patients with dementia
- Experience working with the veteran population
- Experience working with clients/patients with behavioral health issues or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Experience documenting in an Electronic Health Record (e-MAR)
Responsibilities
- Provides hands‑on patient care support including feeding, bathing, positioning, lifting, and responding to daily needs
- Records and monitors vital signs, observes patient conditions, and accurately documents and reports changes
- Maintains a safe, clean, and organized patient environment, ensuring proper equipment use and adherence to safety protocols
- Supports clinical operations by collecting specimens, transporting patients/items, and preparing charts and required documentation
- Assists doctors and nurses in general care and well being of patients
- Positions, transfers, moves and lifts patients
- Takes and records temperatures, pulses and respirations
- Observes patients and reports unusual symptoms and/or behavior
- Ensures that restraints are correctly applied
- Tests urine samples for sugar
- Collects specimens
- Keeps beds, bedpans and related equipment clean
- Maintains unit environment for safety of patient
- Transports patients, specimens and other related patient items
- Prepares reports and correspondence including necessary forms and/or requisitions, dietary orders, death paperwork and assembly of charts
- May feed, bathe and massage clients as well as respond to their general needs
- May apply or remove braces
- May process billing and/or insurance information
- May act as triage and/or receptionist for incoming patients and telephone calls
- May schedule patient appointments
- May order supplies
- Performs related duties as required
Benefits
- Comprehensive state employee benefits
- Access to the State Employee Benefits Overview page to explore available options
- Professional growth and development opportunities
- A commitment to supporting a healthy work/life balance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
