Nursing Attendant II

County of Los Angeles•Los Angeles, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Provides prescribed care to patients in an inpatient care unit. LA Health Services is LA County’s integrated healthcare system and the second-largest public health system in the nation. Our system includes four public hospitals, more than 20 community health centers, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Correctional Health Services, and community-based programs that connect people to care where they are. We serve as the safety net for more than 10 million residents, providing care regardless of ability to pay, insurance coverage, or immigration status. As one connected system, we deliver extraordinary care—from prevention and primary care to emergency, specialty, trauma, and recovery services across Los Angeles County. With more than 2.9 million visits annually and a workforce of over 23,000 dedicated staff, LA Health Services is proud to deliver high-quality, compassionate, and accessible care to everyone, no matter how they come through our doors.

Requirements

Six (6) months of experience as a nursing attendant in a ward or clinic. You may still qualify even if your job title isn't exactly the same as the one listed. Your experience should involve similar responsibilities which requires comparable skills and knowledge. Please provide a clear explanation of your experience to demonstrate that you performed comparable duties. Other titles considered to be performing nursing attendant work include Nursing Assistant; Nursing Aide/Nurse's Aide; Patient Care Assistant/Associate/Technician; Clinical Assistant/Support Associate; Nurse Technician.
Completion of a recognized training program in nursing attendant work.
Certification as a Nursing Assistant (CNA) issued by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).
A current certification in Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers (CPR & AED) issued by the American Heart Association.

Nice To Haves

Any additional experience in excess of the Requirements

Responsibilities

Contributes to patient comfort and well-being by rearranging bedding and changing linen, serving, and removing meal trays and responding to requests for personal services, such as filling water containers, making mechanical adjustments of bed and providing assistance in changing position in bed, furnishing bedpans and urinals, and giving baths, shampoos, and back rubs.
Perform a limited prescribed range of technical nursing tasks, such as collecting urine, stool, and sputum specimens, monitoring the physical condition of patients and reporting changes to the charge nurse, measuring, and recording patients' food and liquid intake and output, taking and recording vital signs, and recognizing manifest signs of anxiety, stress or indications of change in emotional state of behavior.
Provides limited therapeutic services for patients as directed by a charge nurse or physician, such as turning and positioning patients to prevent pressure sores and to facilitate drainage, applying hot or cold compresses, applying bandages, giving baths, administering oxygen, giving bowel and bladder training.
Maintains a sanitary environment for patients by cleaning up minor spills, washing and cleaning bedpans, urinals and emesis basins, cleaning bathtubs and hydrotherapy tanks, cleaning up operating rooms after use, and washing as well as cleaning instruments/equipment such as catheters or tubing’s.
Performs support tasks such as taking inventory and replenishing ward supplies like thermometers, gloves, and needles.
Inspects, folds, packages, and sterilizes dressings.
Assists in patient admission, transfer, and discharge by listing and distributing clothing and valuables.
Performs incidental clerical duties.
Helps patients as may be required in all the usual activities of daily living such as eating, brushing teeth, dressing, and undressing, and eliminating.
Carries on prescribed structured interaction with patients which is crafted to provide an environment in which behavioral modification may take place; observes and reports patient's response.
Protect patients and staff by intervening in ward disturbances, calming agitated patients and restraining combative patients.
Connect with patients and members of their families and with members of the hospital staff in a manner conducive to achieving and maintaining a patient environment which is free of stress and emotional tension.
Administers passive exercises to or helps patients to perform exercises and activities prescribed by a physician, licensed therapist, or registered nurse; assists patients in sitting up, getting out of bed, and ambulating.
Encourages patients to resume normal functioning at a pace in keeping with their capability.
As an incident to other duties described above, escorts patients to outside clinics, schools, recreational therapy, and other pertinent approved off-site locations.
Assists physicians in performing medical procedures positioning and draping of patients such as but not limited to restraining patients during procedure and passing instrument/supplies to the physician as requested.