Nursing Assistant

Job Title

Duties

The incumbent performs duties as follows:

• Safely and effectively uses patient care equipment.
• Identifies potential and actual emergencies and takes appropriate actions.
• Maintains confidentiality of patient information.
• Sets-up, uses, reprocesses, and maintains all unit/department-specific equipment that is designed by the manufacturer to be reused for multiple patients.
• Obtains and records vital signs, pulse, temperature, respirations, blood pressure, and pain level.
• Measures and records height and weight of patients.
• Assists patients with activities of daily living (e.g., hygiene, eating, dressing and ambulation) including oral/denture care, bed baths/shower, indwelling catheter care, perineal care, foot care, and changing bed linens.
• Positions, sets-up, and assists patients with meals; ensures meal trays are removed.
• Assists with patient transfers in and out of bed.
• Assists patients to and from toilet; assists patients with any toileting needs; and keeps incontinent patients clean.
• Assists with patient admissions ensuring personal belongings are inventoried and documented.
• Assists with patient discharges or transfers including stripping beds, ensuring patients have their belongings; and sweeps medication cabinets in patient rooms.
• Answers call lights and unit phones as needed.
• Performs glucose checks on patients as ordered.
• Turns and repositions patients at risk for skin breakdown.
• Performs range of motion exercises for patients.
• Reinforces non-sterile dressings.
• Applies anti-embolic hose/equipment (i.e., Ted hose, sequential compression devices).
• Applies adaptive devices and non-behavioral restraints as ordered.
• Functions as Continuous Observation Attendant (COA) within an arm's length of the patient.
• Relieves COAs as needed for breaks and meals.
• Wipe down all patients' bedside tables and side rails once a shift.
• Ensures patients' bedside areas are neat and tidy.
• Ensures patients have an adequate supply of water, cups, and straws at their bedside.
• Assists in recording and charting patient input and output (I&O).
• Conducts hourly rounds on patients to ensure their needs are being met.
• Ensures safety precautions are in place.
• Empties indwelling catheter bags, urinals, surgical drains, and records output amounts.
• Assists with post-mortem care. Transports deceased bodies to morgue.
• Stocks supplies in patient care areas to ensure there are adequate supplies and equipment to meet patient care needs.
• Cleans reusable medical equipment (RME) on unit as needed.
• Documents vital signs in the electronic health record (EHR).
• Documents on the restraint and seclusion flow sheet as needed.
• Documents in nursing progress note care provided.
• Identifies potential and actual emergencies and takes appropriate actions.
• Implements hospital safety guidelines and maintains a safe environment for patients and staff.
• Reports all accidents to supervisor and notifies supervisor promptly of unsafe or unhealthy environmental situations/conditions.
• Initiates CPR as appropriate.
• Performs bladder scan and reports findings to RN.
• Places patients on cardiac monitors as needed.
• Applies ice packs with RN delegation as needed.
• Performs 12-lead EKGs.
• Selects and applies condom catheters as needed.
• Transports patients from one unit/area to another or to clinic appointments.
• Transports specimens to lab.
• Feeds patients on Aspiration Precautions.
• Analyzes, measures, and interprets cardiac rhythms in central telemetry station and/or provides relief to staff stationed in central telemetry.
• Takes regular inventory of emergency/critical supplies.
• Places orders for needed supplies.
• Performs other duties, as assigned.

Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional

Work Schedule: Full Time

Tour Information: 0700-1930; 1100-2330; 1900-0730

Compressed/Flexible: Not Authorized

Recruitment Incentive (Sign-on Bonus): Not Authorized