Nursing Assistant PRN - ER

Responsibilities

• Affords assistance in preparing unit and patient room and bed to ensure adequate accommodation during hospital stay.
• Accompanies patients during admission, transfer, and discharge procedures with compassion and understanding.
• Takes and records patient temperature, pulse, respiration, weight, height, blood pressure, and intake-output measurements in a caring and efficient manner, and documents information in CIS.
• Assists patients with daily living activities such as bed bath, oral hygiene, shaving, dressing, back rubs, and linen freshening.
• Prepares patients for meals, serves food, and feeds patients when needed with compassion and respect.
• Transports patients to and from designated areas of the hospital in a caring, considerate, expedient, and professional manner.
• Ensures patients have identification bracelets before transportation and demonstrates compassion and respect in all contacts.
• Maintains a safe, comfortable, and therapeutic health care environment by cleaning rooms and equipment, preparing for sterilization and disinfection, promptly reporting damaged equipment and other problems, and efficiently and properly handling linen and supplies.
• Provides input for end of shift reports and CIS documentation and participates in unit quality assurance programs.
• Utilizes all equipment, supplies, facilities, and resources in a prudent and efficient manner to ensure efficient departmental operations and the provision of high-quality health care services.
• Strives to promote the quality and efficiency of his/her own performance through participation in staff educational programs, approved continuing education courses, and specialized skill training programs.
• Assists physicians with examination, treatments, and special tests and procedures as directed by a Registered Nurse.
• Captures patient specimens in a caring manner and transports specimens to the lab when necessary.
• Assists with patient rehabilitation under the supervision of a Registered Nurse and in accordance with the patient's care plan.
• Runs inter-departmental errands for nursing personnel in an expedient and professional manner.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED