Nursing Assistant I Acute Care Nights

About the role

Provides routine direct and indirect patient care in a hospital, clinic or home health care setting. All work performed is under the direct supervision of a registered nurse or physician.

Responsibilities

• Assist physicians and other health care providers with routine examinations and procedures, as well as procurement of equipment and supplies during emergency situations.
• In the psychiatric setting: aids patients in reality orientation, participates in behavior modification plans/therapy, provides informal support therapy to patients/families, provides verbal de-escalation of potentially aggressive patients, aids in the physical management of aggressive/out-of-control patients, facilitates age appropriate play for children, and monitors the therapeutic milieu activities on assigned unit to ensure that emotional and safety needs of patients are met.
• Observes, collects, and documents patient information obtained while providing care and promptly reports significant changes in the patient's condition to a registered nurse or physician.
• Provides assistance to patients and their families during admission to the clinical area, orientation to the hospital/clinic/home health experience, and discharge.
• Provides care/treatments to patients as outlined in plan of care including, but not limited to, measurement of vital signs, height and weight, specimen collection, skin preps/scrubs, catheter care, capillary blood glucose checks, simple wound care, range of motion exercises, postural drainage, and supportive patient and family interactions.
• Provides direct personal care to patients as outlined in plan of care for routine activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, feeding and assisting with ambulation.
• Provides indirect care to patients and assigned area to include, but not limited to, cleaning the work area, changing linens, re-stocking supplies, cleaning/sterilizing instruments, transporting patients/supplies/specimens, assisting in the orientation of new employees and students, and some routine clerical functions.
• 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 health care providers.

Requirements

• Education: None required as long as all other position requirements are met.
• Licensure/Certification: Listed as Nursing Assistant I with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services; Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Experience: Prefer six (6) months of nursing assistant experience.
• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Fluent in verbal and written English language and able to develop basic computer skills.

Job Details

• Legal Employer: NCHEALTH
• Entity: Caldwell Memorial Hospital
• Organization Unit: Nursing 3 West Acute
• Work Type: Full Time
• Standard Hours Per Week: 36.00
• Salary Range: $16.00 - $22.51 per hour (Hiring Range); pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity
• Work Assignment Type: Onsite
• Work Schedule: Night
• Job Location: Lenoir, NC, US
• Exempt From Overtime: No
• This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Health Care System. This is not a State employed position.