Nursing Assistant - Community Living Center
Summary
Nursing Assistants in the Community Living Center at the Hot Springs campus of the VA Black Hills Health Care System in South Dakota - perform a wide range of patient personal care, diagnostic services, treatment, and charting activities on a regular and continuing basis.
About the Role
Community Living Center Nursing Assistants deliver safe and individualized nursing care to patients with multiple complex needs.
Responsibilities
- Provide daily personal care - including hygiene, comfort, nutrition, elimination, and skin-integrity support
- Deliver safe, individualized care to Veterans with complex medical needs
- Absorb treatments, procedures, and routine clinical tasks
- Perform basic diagnostic tasks and accurately chart observations
- Support patients' physical, emotional, rehabilitative, and spiritual needs
- Help prevent skin breakdown and promote mobility and comfort
- Prioritize and multitask effectively in a fast-paced care environment
- Maintain a safe environment and follow established care protocols
- Work Schedule: Mix of Day and Night shifts - including weekends and holidays - scheduled to work 80 hours biweekly with 8 and 12 hour shifts
Requirements
- Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional
- Duties of the Nursing Assistant - Community Living Center include - but are not limited to:
- Provide daily personal care - including hygiene, comfort, nutrition, elimination, and skin-integrity support
- Deliver safe, individualized care to Veterans with complex medical needs
- Absorb treatments, procedures, and routine clinical tasks
- Perform basic diagnostic tasks and accurately chart observations
- Support patients' physical, emotional, rehabilitative, and spiritual needs
- Help prevent skin breakdown and promote mobility and comfort
- Prioritize and multitask effectively in a fast-paced care environment
- Maintain a safe environment and follow established care protocols
- Work Schedule: Mix of Day and Night shifts - including weekends and holidays - scheduled to work 80 hours biweekly with 8 and 12 hour shifts
Qualifications
- Basic Requirements
- Education or Training
Skills
None beyond the basic requirements.
Benefits
None beyond the basic requirements.
Pay
Competitive salary and regular salary increases.
Schedule
Mix of Day and Night shifts - including weekends and holidays - scheduled to work 80 hours biweekly with 8 and 12 hour shifts.
Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional
The duties of the Nursing Assistant - Community Living Center include - but are not limited to:
- Provide daily personal care - including hygiene, comfort, nutrition, elimination, and skin-integrity support
- Deliver safe, individualized care to Veterans with complex medical needs
- Absorb treatments, procedures, and routine clinical tasks
- Perform basic diagnostic tasks and accurately chart observations
- Support patients' physical, emotional, rehabilitative, and spiritual needs
- Help prevent skin breakdown and promote mobility and comfort
- Prioritize and multitask effectively in a fast-paced care environment
- Maintain a safe environment and follow established care protocols
- Work Schedule: Mix of Day and Night shifts - including weekends and holidays - scheduled to work 80 hours biweekly with 8 and 12 hour shifts
References
For more information on this qualification standard - please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards.