Nursing Department Assistant (NDA) III - Geriatric Psych

Nursing Department Assistant (NDA) III - Geriatric Psych

Join Cleveland Clinic and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital is a proud Magnet Hospital awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice. On our team, you will provide stellar patient care, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a meaningful career at one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

Lutheran Hospital's Geriatric Psych Unit specializes in the unique care mental health needs of patients ages 55 and older. This unit is dedicated to helping patients achieve healthier and more productive lives through evaluation, treatment, and stabilization of any disturbances of thought, feelings, mood, behavior, and any co-morbidities. As Nursing Department Assistant on this unit, you will be facilitating this goal by creating a safe and healing environment, providing patients' activities of daily living, performing various support tasks, documenting patient condition and transporting patients and errands as directed. In this role, you can make a lasting difference in the lives of patients and the community every day.

A caregiver in this role works days from 7:00 a.m. -- 3:30 p.m.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Provide for patients' daily living activities.
• Maintain supplies and equipment function.
• Transport patients and complete errands.
• With direction from RN assists in direct patient care tasks (i.e. performs EKGs, blood glucose monitoring, specimen collection, dressing changes, colostomy care and documentation of vital signs).
• Assist with wide variety of patient care tasks and collaborate with members of health care teams to promote the delivery of patient care.
• Organize patient care assignments to ensure timely delivery and completion of care on assigned patients.
• Seek assistance as necessary for difficult assignments or problem solving.
• Document the care provided in patient record and label specimens properly.
• Ask patient about pain and report to the RN/LPN as needed.
• Utilize pain scale.
• Maintain orderliness and cleanliness of unit including patient/unit equipment.
• Keep patient areas neat and uncluttered and prepare rooms for patient admissions.
• Clean and maintain patient/unit equipment (i.e. over-bed tables, bed pans, bedside commodes).
• Report any problems (i.e. equipment, supplies and maintenance problems)
• Make 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.
• Ensure that all bed alarms are activated during hourly rounds.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• High School Diploma/GED
• Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross within new hire period
• Basic math and multi-task skills

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• State Tested Nursing Assistant (STNA) certification
• Previous nursing assistant experience
• Healthcare or nursing home experience
• Two years of experience in behavioral health or medical background

Physical Requirements:

• 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.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. 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.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.

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