Nursing Assistant I - Medical / Surgical Unit

About the role

This position qualifies for our UNC Health Incentive Program; ask your recruiter for more information. Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina. On the 3rd Floor Medical/Surgical Unit (24‑bed), you see a wide variety of diagnoses including chest pain, CHF, syncope, strokes, diabetes, COPD, and other med‑surgical conditions, plus some surgery patients. Excellent teamwork with a dedicated work family. Patient ratios: 1 RN to 5‑6 patients; day shift includes 3 nursing assistants and a secretary, night shift includes 3 nursing assistants for support. You have the opportunity to touch many lives and make a difference every day.

Location: Clayton, NC. Onsite, full‑time.

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 report 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, the 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 document 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: Must be listed as Nursing Assistant I with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services; Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.
• Experience: Prefer six (6) months of nursing assistant experience.
• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Fluent in verbal and written English; able to develop basic computer skills.

Pay

Salary range: $18.00 - $2