Nursing Assistant - FLEX Department

UNC Health•Smithfield, NC

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Provides routine direct and indirect patient care in a hospital, clinic, or home health care setting under the direct supervision of a registered nurse or physician. This position is in the FLEX Department, whose employees float among clinical areas at the Smithfield hospital campus, Clayton hospital campus, and Hospice House, an inpatient hospice facility. The department includes nurses and nursing assistants. The role has flexible scheduling with 12-hour shifts; weekend and holiday shifts are required.

Requirements

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 and able to develop basic computer skills.
Weekend and holiday shifts are required.

Nice To Haves

Six months of nursing assistant experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Assist physicians and other health care providers with routine examinations and procedures, and obtain equipment and supplies during emergencies.
In psychiatric settings, support patients with reality orientation, behavior modification plans and therapy, informal support for patients and families, verbal de-escalation, and physical management of aggressive or out-of-control patients; facilitate age-appropriate play for children and monitor therapeutic milieu activities to help meet patients' emotional and safety needs.
Observe, collect, and document patient information while providing care, and promptly report significant changes in a patient's condition to a registered nurse or physician.
Assist patients and families during admission, orientation to the hospital, clinic, or home health experience, and discharge.
Provide care and treatments outlined in the plan of care, including measuring vital signs, height, and weight; collecting specimens; skin preps and scrubs; catheter care; capillary blood glucose checks; simple wound care; range-of-motion exercises; postural drainage; and supportive patient and family interactions.
Provide direct personal care for routine activities of daily living, including bathing, dressing, feeding, and assisting with ambulation.
Provide indirect care by cleaning work areas, changing linens, restocking supplies, cleaning or sterilizing instruments, transporting patients, supplies, and specimens, assisting with orientation of new employees and students, and performing routine clerical functions.
Reinforce routine teaching provided by a registered nurse or physician, document patient understanding, and distribute patient education materials at the request of patients or health care providers.