AHD Nursing Services Technician

Summary

The AHD Nursing Services Technician (NST) is responsible for the nursing support functions on all units; thereby, serving the patient needs of each area.

Duties & Essential Job Functions

• Implements care in a knowledgeable, skillful, consistent and continuous manner.
• Functions to establish priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available resources of time, personnel, equipment and supplies.
• Demonstrates competency in selected psychomotor skills.
• Affords assistance with the identification of patient/significant other's learning needs and reports this need to the RN so that appropriate measures can be implemented.
• Performs limited documentation duties on units and in patient records.
• Demonstrates awareness and sensitivity to patients/significant others' rights as identified within the institution.
• Functions with an awareness and application of safety issues as identified within the institution.
• Performs efficiently in emergency patient situations by remaining calm and informing appropriate persons.
• Recognizes your own limitations and educational needs, improving knowledge and skills by participating in in-service and continuing education classes.
• Participates in Unit goal formation and assists in projects to achieve goals.
• Participates in QA activities.
• Flexible in responding to Nursing Department staff needs.
• Provides excellent customer service to all customers, including patients, family members, Physicians, nursing staff and all other ancillary personnel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: High School diploma or equivalent.
• Experience: One year experience in an acute care hospital.
• Training: Successful completion of an accredited Nurse's Aide training course, or after 100 hours of clinical experience while presently enrolled in an RN or LVN program, or a corpsman in the Navy and able to provide a skills checklist to meet our hospital standards.
• Licenses/Certifications: BLS - Current Basic Life Support certification issued by the American Heart Association.
• Licenses/Certifications: Current Certification in the State of California.

PAY RANGE

$36.33 - $39.33/hour

The pay range for this position reflects the base pay scale for the role at Alameda Health System. Final compensation will be determined based on several factors, including but not limited to a candidate’s experience, education, skills, licenses and certifications, departmental equity, applicable collective bargaining agreements, and the operational needs of the organization. Alameda Health System also offers eligible positions a generous comprehensive benefits program.