Nurse Tech- PRN

Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital•El Dorado, KS

33d•Onsite

About The Position

The Nurse Tech provides direct patient care under the supervision of a registered nurse. This role involves assisting patients with daily living activities, monitoring vital signs, collecting specimens, and ensuring patient safety. The Nurse Tech must be able to effectively communicate with patients, families, and healthcare team members, and maintain competence in caring for patients across various age groups and departments.

Requirements

Will be orientated to and maintain competence in working with patients in the following age categories: Med/Surg/Skilled/ICU: Infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients. OB: Neonate, adolescent, and adult patients. OR, ED: Neonate, infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients. TLC: Adult and geriatric patients.
Competence at the beginning of employment will be measured through observation during orientation and review of documentation.
Ongoing competence will be measured through observation of clinical practice, observation for performance evaluation, and competency in-service.
A minimum training level of BLS is required.
Job requires full range of body motion, with occasional twisting, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crawling, and reaching.
Job may require reaching overhead.
Job requires ability to handle and lift patients.
Eye-hand coordination, and finger and manual dexterity are required.
Requires corrected hearing and vision to a normal range.
Requires the ability to distinguish letters and symbols.
Repetitive movements such as writing are required.

Nice To Haves

CNA Certification
Previous hospital employment preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Give patient baths, oral care and hair care.
Take vital signs (temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressures).
Collect I & O information.
Ambulate patients.
Assist with activities in patient mobility and positioning.
Clearly and concisely report significant patient status changes to nurse.
Report significant patient status changes to appropriate co-workers.
Collection of urine and fecal specimens.
Obtain accucheck readings.
Initiate CPR.
Provide for patient safety, transport patients by pushing pulling, lifting, in a wheelchair, bed, cart or geri chair.
Reposition patients with or without mechanical devices, by lifting, pulling and pushing.
Responsible and accountable for using work time organizing and prioritizing work to complete daily assignments.
Participates in quality assurance, assessment and improvement activities.
Follows patient-specific plan of care.
Document patient information.
Obtain patient weight.
Provide patient meals and assist patient as needed with meals.
Follow all infection control procedures and policies (including use of standard precautions).
Performs other duties as assigned.