Nursing Assistant

About the role

The Nursing Assistant (NA) provides direct patient care across various settings including inpatient, outpatient, acute, and community living care. The role supports patients with both acute and chronic conditions.

Responsibilities

• Provide a range of patient/resident care and contribute to the completion of the nurse care plan and recovery of patients/residents.
• Observe patients/residents' or resident's physical or emotional status and refer deviations and/or problems to supervisor in a timely manner.
• Properly use equipment, materials, and supplies in simple diagnostic and treatment procedures such as bladder scan, continuous passive motion device, blood glucose monitoring machine, specimen collection, etc.
• Communicate effectively with patients/residents, their families, and other health professionals.
• Assist in the full range of nursing care to patients/residents with physical and/or behavioral problems in a hospital, long-term care, or outpatient setting under the direction of a Registered Nurse and/or Licensed Vocational Nurse/Licensed Practical Nurse.
• Serve as a preceptor to new NAs by assisting with the coordination of their orientation and overseeing/assessing their practical experience while in a clinical setting.
• Recognize and react to emergent patient/resident care situations and intervene while waiting for assistance.

Requirements

Applicants pending the completion of educational or certification/licensure requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met.

Qualifications

• General Experience: Six (6) months of general experience.
• Educational Requirements: One (1) year of education above high school with courses related to the Nursing Assistant occupation, or completion of an intensive, specialized occupation-related training course of study or program of less than one (1) year as a Nursing Assistant.

Skills

Knowledge, skills, and abilities required for the position include:

• Ability to provide a range of patient/resident care and contribute to the completion of the nurse care plan and recovery of patients/residents.
• Ability to observe patients/residents' or resident's physical or emotional status and refer deviations and/or problems to supervisor in a timely manner.
• Ability to properly use equipment, materials, and supplies in simple diagnostic and treatment procedures such as bladder scan, continuous passive motion device, blood glucose monitoring machine, specimen collection, etc.
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients/residents, their families, and other health professionals.
• Ability to assist in the full range of nursing care to patients/residents with physical and/or behavioral problems in a hospital, long-term care, or outpatient setting under the direction of a Registered Nurse and/or Licensed Vocational Nurse/Licensed Practical Nurse.
• Ability to recognize and react to emergent patient/resident care situations and intervene while waiting for assistance.

Benefits

Includes a total rewards package that may include a competitive salary and regular salary increases, recruitment incentive (sign-on bonus), permanent change of station (relocation assistance), paid time off, parental leave, childcare subsidy, traditional federal pension, federal 401K, federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care, telework, virtual work, PCS, and insurance benefits.

Pay

Competitive salary and regular salary increases.

Schedule

Varied days, 6:30am-7pm and 6:30pm-7am.