Nursing Assistant Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Requires basic math skills and ability to read and write.
• Successful completion of Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross required within new hire period.
• Demonstrates empathy and interacts with patients, visitors, and all personnel in a courteous, helpful manner; able to resolve conflict in a constructive manner; able to maintain confidentiality regarding patients, families and co-workers; demonstrates respect for individual cultural and social differences.
• Requires ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patient, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires frequent standing, walking, kneeling, reaching, squatting, bending/stooping and lifting patients.
• Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.
• Requires working under stressful conditions and irregular hours.
• Exposure to communicable diseases and/or body fluids.
• Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.
• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
• You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• Assist with wide variety of patient care tasks and collaborates with members of health care team to promote the delivery of patient care.
• Organizes patient care assignments to ensure timely delivery and completion of care on assigned patients.
• Seeks assistance as necessary for difficult assignments or problem solving.
• Documents the care provided in patient record.
• Labels specimens properly.
• Asks patient about pain and reports to the RN/LPN as needed.
• Utilizes pain scale.
• Maintains orderliness and cleanliness of unit including patient/unit equipment.
• Keeps patient areas neat and uncluttered and prepares rooms for patient admissions.
• Cleans and maintains patient/unit equipment (i.e. over-bed tables, bed pans, bedside commodes).
• Reports any problems (i.e. equipment, supplies and maintenance problems) immediately to the RN.
• Makes hourly patient rounds (based on patient condition) to assure that safety measures are in place (i.e. side rails up as needed; beds in low, locked position; phone and call lights are within the patients' reach; and restraints are applied appropriately.
• Ensures that all bed alarms are activated during hourly rounds. Utilizes personal protective equipment and universal comfort to assist the patient toward independent living.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• drug free environment
• influenza vaccination