Unit Clinical Assistant Emergency Department Part Time 46 hours bi-weekly
About The Position
The Unit Clinical Assistant in the Emergency Department supports the practice of nursing and the delivery of nursing care through a combination of direct patient care, communication modes, and clerical functions. This role encompasses fiscal responsibility, ensuring quality of care, promoting patient satisfaction, maintaining patient safety, fostering professional growth, and providing excellent customer service. Responsibilities include efficient use of supplies and equipment, timely completion of assignments, adherence to unit standards and policies, problem-solving, teamwork, and maintaining professional conduct in patient care areas. The assistant is expected to engage in purposeful patient rounding, practice safe patient mobilization, utilize patient identifiers, and adhere to HIPAA guidelines. Professional development is encouraged through knowledge sharing, leadership, and participation in departmental goals.
Requirements
- High School graduate or GED required
- Past or Active CNA license or graduation from a CNA program with 5+ years of experience working as a CNA will be accepted in lieu of diploma or GED
- Basic BLS: must obtain within 3 months of hire
Responsibilities
- Support the practice of nursing and the delivery of nursing care through use of a combination of direct patient care, communication modes, and clerical functions
- Efficiently use supplies and equipment
- Complete assignments and duties in a timely manner
- Leave shift on time and utilize time keeping system
- Demonstrate productivity and accepts EDO and float assignments
- Fill out appropriate work orders and support unit goals to eliminate waste
- Participate and appropriately documents per unit specific standards and remain up to date with policy changes
- Possess ability to problem solve and to multitask within their scope of practice
- Offer suggestions to improve unit flow and patient experience
- Accept delegation of tasks appropriately
- Engages in teamwork
- Promote patient satisfaction as exemplified by patient recognition, letters from patients and families, or SEA(Service Excellence Award)
- Timely response to patient needs
- Practice professional use of personal electronic devices in patient care areas and keep noise to a minimum at all times
- Exemplifies excellent guest relations to patients, family members, and visitors
- Purposeful patient rounding
- Practice safe patient mobilization and incorporate fall prevention interventions
- Use 2 patient identifiers with all tasks and point of care testing
- Utilize the event management system for each unusual occurrence
- Adjust care routines to meet the individual patient needs in the role of UC or UCA as assigned
- Adhere to HIPAA and follow social media policy
- Shares knowledge and skills with colleagues and others including orientation and cross-training
- Demonstrates leadership and be a resource for peers, be an active council member, be a super user, serve as a preceptor
- Identifies professional needs and collaborates with management for learning opportunities for self and for the unit
- Participate in development and implementation of departmental goals
- Attend product practice change in-services
- Engage patients and their family
- Provide a professional and quiet patient environment, be flexible with assignments, staffing needs and assigned shifts
- Practice AIDET (Acknowledge, Identify, Duration, Explanation, Thank You)
- Promote commitment to co-workers, view all staff as part of an equal team and be approachable at all times, and maintain interdepartmental Relationships
- Provide holistic care for all types of diverse patient populations
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
