Nurse Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• A high school diploma or equivalent required.
• Current CPR review required.
• Employee must demonstrate ability to recognize patients' individual needs based on medical conditions, age (infants, pediatrics, adolescents, young adults, middle-aged and geriatric), limitations and planned procedures.
• Requires ability to work well with others and to function in stressful situations, along with the ability to perform some special skills and operate special equipment.
• Minimum one year phlebotomy experience required, preferably in a hospital or health care setting.
• In lieu of one year experience, successful completion of an approved phlebotomy training program may be accepted.
• Prolonged periods of standing, walking, or sitting while on duty.
• Lifting, pushing, and pulling up to 50 pounds with or without assistance.
• Transferring, repositioning patients.
• Reaching, stooping, bending, kneeing, and crouching for patient care functions.
• Visual and auditory acuity and manual dexterity essential to performing designated duties required.
• Optimal auditory acuity required.
• Manual dexterity involving the handling of equipment and instruments or needles is essential to performing assigned duties.
• Ability to perform effectively in a stressful and fast-paced environment.
• Ability to pass all required health and other screening tests.
• Direct contact with blood or other body fluids to which universal precautions apply.
• Personal protective equipment is made available and must be worn.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in emergency department desired but not required.
• Previous experience as an Emergency Room Technician or Operating Room Technician is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Transports patients using wheelchair or stretcher within the hospital and to and from vehicles.
• Assists those patients requiring help with ambulation.
• Provides general and basic patient care, such as positioning patients, lifting and turning, assisting in use of bedpan, commode, and urinal or bathroom.
• Answers and responds to call lights or uses intercom to determine patient needs, and advises nurse of needs beyond scope of position.
• Cleans and changes stretcher linen between patients and as needed during patient visit.
• Empties dirty laundry.
• Labels, bags, and delivers samples to lab per hospital protocol.
• Assists patients to dress and undress and cares for patient belongings, including bagging and labeling same. Cares for valuable according to policy.
• Restocks linen and supplies in exam rooms, fills blanket warmer, and provides general cleaning.
• Answers phone calls, calls consulting physicians as directed by physicians and other staff members, makes appointments as directed by physicians or other staff members.
• Reviews charge sheets and enters charges into AS-400.
• Provides direct observation for confused or psychiatric patients.
• Performs routine, uncomplicated treatment procedures such as splinting limbs, wound cleansing, taking vital signs, chaperones pelvic and rectal examinations.
• Sets up for suturing and procedures, dismantles procedure set appropriately.
• Immediately reports any observed changes in condition or behavior of patients and documents any care given. Immediately reports any unusual incidents to primary nurse, charge nurse, or nurse manager.
• Responsible for daily checking and stocking of treatment rooms and procedural carts to ensure more efficient patient treatment.
• Standard precautions are exercised with all patients and procedures.
• Patients are appropriately identified prior to any intervention per hospital protocol.
• Knowledge of institutions fire/safety/infection control programs is consistently demonstrated in practice.
• Annual mandatory training activities are completed within established time frames.
• Performs other duties as assigned or directed and within the scope of abilities.