Unit Assistant - Medical Surgical (9E LAN)

Job Title

Under the supervision of a registered nurse, responsible for providing support to nursing staff and assisting in the delivery of patient/resident care following patient care plan and hospital policies and procedures.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Provides routine patient/resident care services such as call light response; ambulating, transferring, and positioning; personal hygiene assistance, prescribed bowel and bladder program assistance, etc.
• Collects, records, and reports various patient/resident data. Reports changes in patient/resident condition.
• Provides general clerical support to unit such as answering the phone, data entry, and assembling, maintaining, and distributing various information.

Required:

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Successful completion of a health unit coordinator course or, high school or college course work in medical terminology and computer/data entry.
• Specialized education requirements, for those not meeting minimum six-month nursing assistance experience requirement, include:
• Acute care nursing assistant course preferred for acute care positions or
• Long term care nursing assistant course or
• Completion of an emergency medical technician program or
• Completion of medical assistant program or
• Completion of a clinical rotation while participating in accredited nursing program.
• Prior nursing assistant experience of at least six months is required when the specialized education requirements identified above has not been met.

• BLS certification as Healthcare Provider or equivalent through the Military Training Network (MTN).

Preferred:

• Six months of clerical experience in healthcare setting. Direct patient care experience.
• Computer keyboard skills and windows application experience.