Nursing Assistant - SCV (2:30P - 11P)

Responsibilities

• Provides for patient's personal hygiene: gives bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves, and assists with showers.
• Assists in preparing unit and patient room and bed to ensure patients are adequately and properly accommodated during their hospital stay.
• Assists and 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 as directed; documents information in CIS.
• Expediently reports any unusual incidents or observed changes in patient condition or behavior to appropriate personnel.
• Assists patients with daily living activities (e.g., bed bath, oral hygiene, shaving, dressing, back rubs, linen freshening) and provides general care (e.g., positioning patients, pre- and post-operative care, assisting with bed pan use) with compassion and understanding.
• Prepares patients for meals, serves food, and feeds patients when needed with compassion and respect for patient needs.
• 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.
• Retrieves medications from the pneumatic tube system and/or pharmacy and delivers them to the nurse or places them in a secure location as determined by the nurse manager.
• Expediently answers patient call lights and assists with personal hygiene and other activities of daily living (e.g., dressing, ambulation) in a caring manner.
• Maintains a safe, comfortable, and therapeutic healthcare environment by cleaning rooms and equipment, preparing for sterilization and disinfection, and promptly reporting damaged equipment.
• Provides input for end-of-shift reports and CIS documentation and participates in unit quality assurance programs to enhance service quality and efficiency.
• Utilizes equipment, supplies, facilities, and resources in a prudent and efficient manner to ensure high-quality healthcare services.
• Participates in staff educational programs, continuing education courses, and specialized skill training to promote personal and departmental performance quality.
• Assists physicians with examinations, treatments, and special tests and procedures as directed by a Registered Nurse.
• Collects and expediently transports patient 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 (e.g., transporting lab specimens, picking up patient medications from pharmacy) for nursing personnel in an expedient and professional manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned or requested.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Strong communication and customer service skills.