Department:
9 W Secure Unit
Daily Work Times:
7a-7p
Shift
: Days
Scheduled Bi-Weekly Hours:
48
Benefits:
403(b)
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Paid time off
Vision insurance
Position Summary:
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:
1.
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.
2.
Collects, records, and reports various patient/resident data.
Reports changes in patient/resident condition.
3.
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:
o
acute care nursing assistant course preferred for acute care positions
or
o
long term care nursing assistant course
or
o
completion of an emergency medical technician program
or
o
completion of medical assistant program
or
o
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:
