Nursing Assistant - Mother Baby Unit 7a-7:30p

Nursing Assistant - Mother Baby Unit

Description:

Penn Medicine is dedicated to its mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical, and business professionals across all disciplines.

• Provides age-appropriate care for the patient population served.
• Cross-trained position for Unit Coordinator, responsible for general office management, clerical, and receptionist duties on the Nursing Unit.

Responsibilities

• Interacts with the patient in a manner that preserves patient dignity, privacy, and meets psychosocial needs of the patient.
• Baths patients and provides assistance with hygiene (includes baths, mouth care, shaves males, comb hair, wash hair).
• Changes bed linens for occupied and unoccupied beds.
• Assists patients with meals, feeds patients as needed.
• Obtains vital signs and weights, and records.
• Welcome and greet patients and visitors to the unit.
• Demonstrates pleasant, professional communication skills when speaking with patients, visitors, nursing staff, physicians, volunteers, and personnel from other departments.
• Communicates patient and unit information to the RN and interdisciplinary care team in a timely manner. Seeks help from RN when needed.
• Documents patient care in an accurate, professional, and timely manner according to policy and procedure.
• Uses equipment appropriately, follows Department policies for equipment and supply use, cleaning, and maintenance.
• Performs assigned duties to maintain unit in a state of survey readiness and maintain quality initiatives.
• Chart Management - ensures all chart forms are properly labeled.
• Performs procedures within the scope of the Policy and Procedure Manual.

Credentials

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required)
• Certified Nursing Assistant preferred.

Education or Equivalent Experience

• H.S. Diploma/GED (Required)
• Education Specialization: Not specified
• Equivalent Experience: And 0-1 years
• Training and/or experience at an acute care facility or student nurse with hospital-based clinical experience 0-1 years
• Previous secretarial skills or healthcare experience