Nursing Assistant or Will-Train/Trainee, Med Surg

Nursing Assistant

Nursing Assistant Performs as a member of the Nursing Team various duties assisting Staff Nurses in the treatment and care of patients in accordance with established policies and procedures.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Must be courteous to patients, customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Identify and locate needed accessories to facilitate transport.
• Answering call lights.
• Making beds both empty and occupied.
• Setting up all equipment routinely used on their home base units.
• Preparing room for admission.
• Assist with patient discharges
• Removal of linens.
• Answering telephone.
• Must wear facility provided identification badge.
• Consistently provides service excellence to all patients, family member, visitors, volunteers, and co-workers.
• Facilitate communication to RNs to provide best care possible for patients
• Performs other work-related duties and activities as assigned or requested by his/her immediate supervisor.

Additional Patient Service Assistant Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Transports patients via wheelchairs and stretchers.
• Vital signs, oxygen saturation, weights, and non-invasive specimen collection.
• Turning and positioning patients, range of motion, ambulation, and toiletry.
• Assistance with all ADL's and complete care as needed.
• Setting up, assisting and educating patients, with commodes, bedpans, urinals, sitz baths, walkers, wheelchairs, slings, venodyne boots, crutches, specific precautions- with input from PT as needed
• Appropriate emptying and/or recording of all drainage devices.
• Postmortem care.

Patient Care Tech:

Other duties may be assigned.

• Must be courteous to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Takes and records patients' vital signs. Dresses wounds, gives enemas, douches, alcohol rubs, and
• massages.
• Applies compresses, ice bags, and hot water bottles.
• Observes patients and reports adverse reactions to medication or treatment to medical personnel in
• charge.
• Administers specified medication, orally or by subcutaneous or intermuscular injection, and notes time
• and amount on patients' charts.
• Assembles and uses such equipment as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, and oxygen suppliers.
• Collects samples, such as urine, blood, and sputum, from patients for testing and performs routine
• laboratory tests on samples.
• Sterilizes equipment and supplies.
• Prepares or examines food trays for prescribed diet and feeds patients. Records food and fluid intake
• and output.
• Bathes, dresses, and assists patients in walking and turning.
• Cleans rooms, makes beds, and answers patients' calls.
• Washes and dresses bodies of deceased persons.
• Assists in delivery, care, and feeding of infants.
• Inventories and requisitions supplies.
• Performs tracheotomy care, colostomy care, wound care and dressing changes.
• Demonstrates through clinical practice the use of universal precautions, understands the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standards.
• Demonstrates a thorough knowledge and/or practice in the prevention of TB transmission and adheres
• to all other infection control policies.
• Must wear facility provided identification badge at all times

Qualifications:

• Ability to read, write and communication in English
• Obtain BLS Certification upon completion of the Apprenticeship Program
• The Nursing Assistant Registered Apprenticeship Program:
• Includes a classroom curriculum with an accredited Nursing Assistant Program
• Includes on-the-job training
• Must successfully complete Program within 6 months of hire into Trainee role
• Upon completion of the Falmouth Hospital Nursing Assistant Apprenticeship Program, incumbent will transfer into the Nursing Assistant, Grade FHS5A, Job Code: 00333.
• Ability to read, write and communication in English
• Obtain BLS Certification upon completion of the Will-Train program
• Upon completion of the Falmouth Hospital Nursing Assistant Will-Train program, successful passage of the Falmouth Hospital written competency exam for Nursing Assistant
• Upon completion of the Falmouth Hospital Nursing Assistant Will-Train program, incumbent will transfer into the Nursing Assistant, Grade FHS5A, Job Code: 00333
• Ability to read, write and communication in English
• Must meet at least one of the following qualifications:
• Successful completion of a Nursing Assistant Program
• Successful completion of a Medical Assistant Program
• Successful completion of an EMT Program
• Successful completed of an LPN Program
• Equivalent clinical Military experience
• Completed at least one year of an accredited Nursing School Program
• Successful completion of the Falmouth Hospital Nursing Assistant Will-Train or Trainee program
• Current Basic Life Support Certification
• Successful passage of CPI training within 6 months from hire and must maintain recertification annually

Schedule Details:

64PP (32 Hours Per Week), Rotating Nights, 11p-7a, Every Other Weekend & Rotating Holidays (Med Surg 4)

Organization:

Falmouth Hospital Association

Primary Location:

Massachusetts-Falmouth

Department:

FHA-Med / Surg 4

Annual/Hourly:

Hourly

Hiring Pay Range:

15.73 - 30.43