Nursing Assistant - Mother Baby Unit Nights

About the role

Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite 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.

Responsibilities

• Provides age appropriate care for the patient population served.
• Uses appropriate resources for patients with special needs.
• Integrates principles of infection prevention into practice.
• Responsible for stocking all patient care rooms, closets at the beginning of the shift and ordering necessary supplies.
• Checks the blanket/fluid warmer outside the OR for outdated materials: stocks with blankets, sheets, gowns; dates solutions and records warmer temperature.
• Docks Neptune and restocks cartridges.
• Brings a bed from Mother Baby and places it outside the OR for C/Section.
• Maintains equipment room: ensures equipment is clean and organized, peanut balls/birthing balls are cleaned and bagged, all monitors are cleaned and bagged, instruments are organized.
• Stocks and prepares vaginal delivery table.
• After delivery: makes an icepack, provides beverage as requested, brings infant scale to room, removes delivery table, delivers used instruments to Sterile Processing.
• Picks up sterile supplies from Sterile Processing.
• Ensures soiled utility room is clean and orderly.
• Maintains placenta refrigerator (discards placentas after 7 days, removes placenta triage forms). Takes placentas to lab and restocks Formalin.
• Secures HUGS tags and stocks baby cribs.
• Opens OR for c/s utilizing sterile technique.
• Assists nursing staff with vital signs, fetal monitor, bedside glucose monitoring as directed by RN.
• Assists with entering lab results into PENN chart.

Credentials

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

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED (Required)

Education or Equivalent Experience

• Equivalent experience and training and/or experience at an acute care facility or student nurse with hospital-based clinical experience.