Nurse's Aide (40 Hour) Office/On-site #260709-5910FK-001

About the role

The Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) is seeking a full-time Nurse's Aide for the Rocky Hill facility. The position is full-time, 40 hours per week, with a 1st shift schedule from 6:45 AM to 3:15 PM. The schedule alternates weeks, starting with Saturdays, Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays in Week 1, and Fridays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays in Week 2.

Responsibilities

• Assists doctors and nurses in general care and well-being of patients
• Positions, transfers, moves, and lifts patients
• Takes and records temperatures, pulses, and respirations
• Observes patients and reports unusual symptoms and/or behavior
• Ensures that restraints are correctly applied
• Tests urine samples for sugar
• Collects specimens
• Keeps beds, bedpans, and related equipment clean
• Maintains unit environment for patient safety
• Transports patients, specimens, and other related patient items
• Prepares reports and correspondence, including necessary forms and/or requisitions, dietary orders, death paperwork, and assembly of charts
• May feed, bathe, and massage clients as well as respond to their general needs
• May apply or remove braces
• May process billing and/or insurance information
• May act as triage and/or receptionist for incoming patients and telephone calls
• May schedule patient appointments
• May order supplies
• Performs related duties as required

Requirements

To qualify, applicants must hold a certification as a Nurse's Aide. One year of experience in patient care in a hospital or nursing home is preferred but not required. Certification as a Nurse’s Aide will be required for those positions at UConn Health.

Qualifications

• Considerable interpersonal skills
• Ability to work with basic principles of nursing including infection control practices
• Deal with physically and chronically ill patients
• Learn safety and fire procedures

Skills

Knowledge of nursing practices, infection control, and ability to lift and move patients safely.

Benefits

Comprehensive state employee benefits, access to the State Employee Benefits Overview page, professional growth and development opportunities, and a commitment to supporting a healthy work/life balance.

Pay

Salary calculations are not necessarily comparable across branches of state government. For current state employees, salary calculations are based on contractual language, reemployment, SEBAC, transfer, promotion, and merit employment rules.

Schedule

Full-time, 40 hours per week, 1st shift, 6:45 AM – 3:15 PM. The schedule alternates weeks, starting with Saturdays, Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays in Week 1, and Fridays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays in Week 2.