Nursing Assistant | Inpatient Behavioral Health | Nights

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation • Macon, GA

10d • Onsite

About The Position

This is a full-time Nursing Assistant position in Inpatient Behavioral Health, working nights (7p-7a) including weekends and holidays. The role involves providing direct patient care according to unit standards, assisting with personal care, pre/post-operative care, post-mortem care, patient monitoring, ambulation, transfers, and maintaining a safe and clean environment. The Nursing Assistant will also be responsible for accurate documentation, timely communication with the nursing staff, implementing admission/transfer/discharge procedures, and utilizing effective communication and interpersonal skills to establish therapeutic relationships. Additionally, the role requires participation in maintaining supplies and equipment, demonstrating self-growth and accountability, and maintaining competencies in complex care activities specific to the unit, such as preceptor training, glucose monitoring, respiratory care, CPR, dressing changes, monitoring drainage tubes, procedure setup, and tube feedings. The position also contributes to achieving unit quality scores related to nurse-sensitive indicators.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED
• Ability to communicate with patients, staff, and coworkers.
• Spends much of the day walking and standing on tile or carpet, bending, stooping, and sitting.
• Must be able to use visual near and distance acuity.
• Must have verbal ability to communicate in person and over the phone or radio.
• Must be able to assist co-workers in transfers and transport supplies, patients/residents, or equipment using good body mechanics.
• Must have functional range of motion of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spines, upper and lower extremities with a grip strength of 60-80 pounds.
• Must be able to forward reach, overhead reach, bend, squat, kneel and change from one position to the other rapidly.
• Must be able to lift 25-60 lbs. and carry 25-50 pounds.
• Must be able to tolerate high noise, busy atmospheres and noxious odors.

Nice To Haves

• BLS, CPI
• Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) preferred.
• One year of experience taking care of patients and dealing with the public preferred.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates competency in the physical care of the patient according to AHF/unit patient care standards, including personal care for all body systems, pre- and post-op/procedure care, post-mortem care, patient in restraints, placement of electrodes for monitoring, assisting with ambulation and exercise, care for patients with infectious diseases including TB, hepatitis, AIDS, including those requiring isolation, correct positioning of patients, transfer of patient, and transportation of patients.
• Demonstrates competency in skin care protocols and care.
• Accurately performs/documents intake/output, vital signs, weights and other monitoring, including computerized charting.
• Promptly notifies nurse of abnormal vital signs, observations, physical complaints, etc.
• Assist in identifying patients at risk for falls and preventing falls.
• Maintain a clean, safe and comfortable environment for the patient, including correct handling of body fluids and appropriate cleaning of equipment between patients.
• Demonstrates utilization of proper body mechanics and appropriate lift techniques/resources.
• Performs glucose monitoring via fingerstick.
• Implements admission, transfer and discharge procedures, according to AHF/unit standards, including assisting with timely admission, discharge or transfer, providing explanations of the physical environment, accurately recording relevant information, collecting and forwarding patient's personal belongings, assuring unused equipment and supplies are cleaned/removed, and utilizing discharge process for discharging/transferring patients.
• Utilizes effective communication and interpersonal skills, assuring timely and appropriate communication of patient/family issues, establishing therapeutic relationships, utilizing appropriate lines of authority, maintaining confidentiality, demonstrating effective conflict resolution skills, and demonstrating awareness of satisfaction issues and contributing to resolution and improvement.
• Demonstrates competence in time management and prioritization, teamwork, problem solving and critical thinking, organization of work and environment, and timely response to patient/nurse needs and requests.
• Participates in maintaining supplies, equipment and unit cleanliness, including maintaining a neat and orderly appearance of patient areas, restocking supplies, reporting broken equipment, ensuring appropriate charges are made, properly handling/storing/cleaning/maintaining equipment, and efficiently using supplies, linen and dietary items.
• Demonstrates self-growth/accountability by participating in quality assurance and PI activities, participating in unit meetings, maintaining awareness of policy changes, verbalizing how job supports organizational goals, demonstrating cultural commitments, assuring competency maintained, and complying with unit-specific articulated job expectations.
• Demonstrates competency in all required complex care activities within their home units as determined by unit need, including but not limited to: completion of Preceptor training and serving in Preceptor role, glucose monitoring and quality control checks, respiratory care including tracheostomy care, suctioning, etc., complete required CPR training, dressing changes, monitoring chest and other drainage tubes and levels, procedure/equipment set-up, and assembling, administering, monitoring tube feedings.
• Assists in achieving unit quality scores which meet or exceed hospital/national average for nurse-sensitive quality indicators such as skin breakdown, falls, and others as appropriate for the unit.

Benefits

• Comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs
• Competitive compensation
• Generous retirement offerings
• Programs that invest in your career development
• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED