Nursing Assistant II- Family Medicine Unit, Hillsborough Hospital

UNC Health•Hillsborough, NC

12d•Onsite

About The Position

The Nursing Assistant II provides routine direct and indirect patient care in a hospital setting under the direct supervision of a registered nurse or physician. The role supports the Family Medicine Unit, a 20-bed inpatient unit serving family medicine, observation, extended recovery, and other medical-surgical patients. The assistant helps the team facilitate patient admissions, treatments, transfers, and discharges. This is a 36-hour-per-week rotating position with 12-hour day and night shifts (7:00 a.m.–7:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.–7:30 a.m.), including weekend and holiday rotation. The position requires attendance at a Monday-through-Friday orientation week, from 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., offered every two weeks. The job is onsite at UNC Health Care’s Hillsborough Campus.

Requirements

High school diploma or General Education Development (GED).
Licensed as Nursing Assistant II with the North Carolina Board of Nursing.
Listed as Nursing Assistant I with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
Fluent in verbal and written English.
Able to develop basic computer skills.

Nice To Haves

Six months of nursing assistant experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

Assist physicians and other health care providers with routine examinations and procedures, including obtaining equipment and supplies.
Provide administrative and clerical support, including PI audits and data entry.
Provide clinical support by cleaning work areas, maintaining office equipment, troubleshooting common software and hardware problems, changing linens, checking and restocking supplies, transporting patients, supplies, and specimens, and assisting with orientation of new employees and students.
Provide direct personal care according to the plan of care, including bathing, dressing, feeding, and assisting with ambulation.
Measure and record vital signs, height, and weight.
Perform assigned procedures and care, which may include specimen collection, skin preps or scrubs, catheter care, capillary blood glucose checks, simple wound care, range-of-motion exercises, postural drainage, oxygen setup and flow-rate monitoring, oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal suctioning, tracheostomy care, fecal impaction removal, sterile dressing changes and irrigation of wounds at least 48 hours old, IV fluid assembly and monitoring, IV site care and discontinuation of peripheral IVs, ostomy irrigation and care, urinary catheterization and irrigation, and established oral, nasogastric, and gastrostomy tube feedings.
Reinforce routine teaching provided by a registered nurse or physician and document patient understanding of instructions.
Distribute patient education materials at the request of patients or health care providers.