Clinical Support Tech I / CNAI ED Nights

Responsibilities

• Affords assistance to physicians and other healthcare providers during routine examinations and procedures.
• Procures equipment and supplies as needed.
• Critically reviews patient care documentation and reports significant changes in the patient’s condition immediately to a registered nurse or physician.
• Performs a variety of clerical tasks including organizing and prioritizing workload, greeting and directing visitors, researching information, transcribing physician orders, answering the telephone/patient call lights, and maintaining medical records.
• Conducts routine quality assurance audits, safety checks, and inventory of supplies.
• Provides administrative and clerical support, including PI audits and data entry.
• Offers clinical support assistance such as cleaning the work area, maintaining office equipment, troubleshooting common software and hardware problems, changing linens, checking supply inventory, re-stocking supplies, transporting patients/supplies/specimens, assisting in the orientation of new employees and students.
• Assists in providing direct personal care to patients as outlined in their plan of care, including bathing, dressing, feeding, assisting with ambulation, measuring and recording vital signs, and patient height and weight.
• Measures and records vital signs, and patient height and weight.
• Makes specimen collection, skin preps/scrubs, catheter care, capillary blood glucose checks, simple wound care, range of motion exercises, and/or postural drainage as necessary.
• Reinforces routine teaching given to patients by the registered nurse or physician and documents patient understanding of instructions.
• Distributes patient education materials at the request of patients and/or healthcare providers.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED).
• Licensed as a Nursing Assistant I by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.

Qualifications

• Fluent in verbal and written English language.
• Ability to develop computer skills if not competent.