Nursing Assistant (NA) CW Operational Pool
About the role
Position Summary: The Nursing Assistant performs specific responsibilities under the direction and supervision of a licensed nurse. Functions within the framework of the NAI listing granted by the NC Department of Health and Human Services. Practices within the philosophy and goals of patient care services. In addition, the Nursing Assistant may be utilized in the Observer Role responsible for monitoring one or more assigned patients on a designated unit for a specified time period. ECU Health Medical Center, one of four academic medical centers in North Carolina, is the 974-bed flagship hospital for ECU Health and serves as the primary teaching hospital for The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health Medical Center has achieved Magnet® designation twice and provides acute and intermediate care, rehabilitation and outpatient health services to a 29-county region that is home to more than 1.4 million people.
Responsibilities
- Participates in Quality Improvement (QI) Activities: participates in problem solving resolution activities and identifies opportunities for improvement to change behavior; participates in data collection.
- Employs safe practices, infection control, and fire and disaster regulations.
- Participates in cost savings activities.
- Participates in Education: attends and utilizes staff development programs and educational resources to meet unit objectives and/or individual objectives; fulfills annual mandatory educational requirements; participates in the orientation of new staff and students, as delegated by the supervising RN.
- Follows hospital and unit-based policies and procedures: provides quality patient care; maintains familiarity with job description and legal implications of role; maintains active NAI licensure/certification.
- Builds interpersonal relations and communications: listens to the ideas, opinions, and feelings of others; gives and receives