Nursing Assistant - Labor and Delivery

Penn Medicine • West Chester, PA

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About The Position

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines. Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work? Nursing Assistant - Labor and Delivery Unit. Every other weekend (Sat and Sun) 3:00pm - 11:00pm.

Requirements

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required)
• Certified Nurse Aid
• H.S. Diploma/GED (Required)
• Training and/or experience at an acute care facility or student nurse with hospital based clinical experience.

Responsibilities

• Provides age appropriate care for the patient population served.
• Uses appropriate resources for patients with special needs.
• Integrates principles of infection prevention into practice.
• Responsible for stocking all patient care rooms, closets at the beginning of the shift and ordering necessary supplies.
• Check the blanket/fluid warmer outside the OR for outdated materials: stock with blankets, sheets, gowns. Date solutions and record warmer temperature.
• Dock Neptune and restock cartridges.
• Bring a bed from Mother Baby and place it outside the OR for C/Section.
• Maintains equipment room: ensure equipment is clean and organized, peanut balls/birthing balls are cleaned and bagged, all monitors are cleaned and bagged, instruments are organized.
• Stock and prepare vaginal delivery table.
• After delivery: makes an icepack, provide beverage as requested, bring infant scale to room, remove delivery table, deliver used instruments to Sterile Processing.
• Pick up sterile supplies from Sterile Processing.
• Ensure soiled utility room is clean/orderly. Maintain placenta refrigerator (discard placentas after 7 days, and remove placenta triage forms). Take placentas to lab, restock Formalin.
• Secure HUGS tags and stocked baby cribs.
• Open OR for c/s utilizing sterile technique.
• Assist nursing staff with vital signs, fetal monitor, bedside glucose monitoring as directed by RN.
• Assists with entering lab results into PENN chart.

Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits program.
• Prepaid tuition assistance programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: High school or GED