Nursing Assistant - Flex Pool - Day shift

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation•Macon, GA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Nursing Assistant - Flex Pool - Day shift is responsible for providing direct patient care under the supervision of a nurse. This role involves assisting patients with personal care, monitoring vital signs, assisting with mobility, and maintaining a safe and clean environment. The position also includes implementing admission, transfer, and discharge procedures, utilizing effective communication skills, and participating in maintaining unit supplies and equipment. The Nursing Assistant is expected to demonstrate self-growth and accountability, maintain competencies in complex care activities, and contribute to achieving unit quality scores.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED
Ability to communicate with patients, staff, and coworkers.

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, pre- and post-op/procedure care, post-mortem care, patient in restraints, placement of electrodes for cardiac, respiratory and/or fetal monitoring, assisting with ambulation and exercise, care for patients with infectious diseases, correct positioning of patients, transfer of patients, 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 the discharge process.
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.
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 and cleaning equipment, and efficiently using supplies.
Demonstrates self-growth/accountability by participating in quality assurance and PI activities, attending unit meetings, maintaining awareness of policy changes, verbalizing how their job supports organizational goals, demonstrating cultural commitments, assuring competency, and complying with unit-specific expectations.
Demonstrates competency in all required complex care activities within their home units as determined by unit need, including preceptor training, glucose monitoring, respiratory care, CPR training, dressing changes, monitoring drainage tubes, procedure/equipment set-up, and administering tube feedings.
Assists in achieving unit quality scores which meet or exceed hospital/national average for nurse-sensitive quality indicators.