Clinic Assistant Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• Basic math skills and ability to read and write.
• Successful completion of Basic Life Support (BLS) through the American Heart Association or American Red Cross within the new-hire period.
• Empathy and courteous, helpful interactions with patients, visitors, and personnel; ability to resolve conflict constructively; ability to maintain confidentiality; respect for cultural and social differences.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to meet the stated physical demands, including patient handling and lifting, frequent standing, walking, kneeling, reaching, squatting, bending/stooping, and lifting.

Nice To Haves

• State Tested Nursing Assistant (STNA) certification.
• Previous nursing assistant experience.

Responsibilities

• Assist with a variety of patient care tasks and collaborate with the healthcare team to promote patient care.
• Organize patient care assignments to ensure timely delivery and completion of care for assigned patients.
• Seek assistance as needed with difficult assignments or problem solving.
• Document care provided in the patient record.
• Label specimens properly.
• Ask patients about pain, use a pain scale, and report concerns to the RN/LPN as needed.
• Maintain the orderliness and cleanliness of the unit and patient/unit equipment.
• Keep patient areas neat and uncluttered and prepare rooms for admissions.
• Clean and maintain patient/unit equipment, including over-bed tables, bed pans, and bedside commodes.
• Immediately report equipment, supply, or maintenance problems to the RN.
• Make hourly patient rounds based on patient condition to ensure safety measures are in place, including appropriate side rails, low and locked beds, accessible phones and call lights, and properly applied restraints.
• Ensure bed alarms are activated during hourly rounds.
• Use personal protective equipment and universal comfort measures to assist patients toward independent living.
• Provide patients’ daily living assistance; maintain supplies and equipment; transport patients and complete errands.
• Under RN direction, assist with direct patient care tasks such as EKGs, blood glucose monitoring, specimen collection, dressing changes, colostomy care, and vital-sign documentation.
• Perform other duties as assigned.