Nursing Assistant - Per Diem Nights

About the Role

Provides service-oriented patient care under the direction and supervision of a Registered Nurse. Performs duties that support the operation of the nursing unit in the Mother Baby Unit on a per diem basis, scheduled from 7:00pm to 7:30am.

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 and 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• Checks the blanket/fluid warmer outside the OR for outdated materials; stocks with blankets, sheets, and gowns.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 and removes placenta triage forms).
• Takes placentas to lab and restocks Formalin.
• Secures HUGS tags and stocked 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.

Requirements

• Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required).
• High School Diploma or GED (Required).
• Training and/or experience at an acute care or skilled nursing facility, or student nurse with hospital-based clinical experience.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region.