Nursing Assistant - Orthopedic Department

About the Role

Provides routine direct and indirect patient care in a hospital, clinic, or home health care setting under the direct supervision of a registered nurse or physician. This position is on the 4th Floor Surgical/Orthopedics/Joint Center unit, a 33 private-bed postoperative unit specializing in Total Joint and other Orthopedic, Urology, Gynecology, General, and Vascular surgical surgeries. The unit is fast-paced and offers experience with Chest tubes, Colostomies, NG Tubes, Wound Vacs, and post-surgical care, making it ideal for new nurses to build a strong career foundation. The leadership team emphasizes teamwork and positive coworker recognition, as well as patient and family feedback.

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 psychiatric settings, aid patients in reality orientation, participate in behavior modification plans/therapy, provide informal support therapy to patients/families, de-escalate potentially aggressive patients, assist in physical management of aggressive/out-of-control patients, facilitate age-appropriate play for children, and monitor therapeutic milieu activities to ensure emotional and safety needs are met.
• Observe, collect, and document patient information obtained while providing care and promptly report significant changes in the patient's condition to a registered nurse or physician.
• Provide assistance to patients and their families during admission, orientation to the hospital/clinic/home health experience, and discharge.
• Provide care/treatments to patients as outlined in the plan of care, including but not limited to: measuring 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.
• Provide direct personal care to patients for routine activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, feeding, and assisting with ambulation.
• Provide indirect care to patients and assigned area, including cleaning the work area, changing linens, restocking supplies, cleaning/sterilizing instruments, transporting patients/supplies/specimens, assisting in the orientation of new employees and students, and performing routine clerical functions.
• Reinforce routine teaching given to patients by the registered nurse or physician and document patient understanding of instructions.
• Distribute patient education materials at the request of patients and/or health care providers.

Requirements

• Listed as Nursing Assistant I with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Fluent in verbal and written English language and able to develop basic computer skills.

Qualifications

• None required as long as all other position requirements are met.
• Prefer six (6) months of nursing assistant experience.

Pay

$17.60 - $24.29 per hour (Hiring Range). Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity.

Schedule

• Work Type: Per Diem
• Standard Hours Per Week: 4.00
• Work Assignment Type: Onsite
• Work Schedule: Day
• Job Location: US:NC:Smithfield
• 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.