State-Tested Nurse Aid (STNA)

About the role

Cares for patients in hospital or swing bed (rehabilitation), under direction of nursing and medical staff.

Responsibilities

• Answers signal lights, bells, or intercom system to determine patient needs
• Bathes, dresses, and undresses patients
• Serves and collects food trays and feeds patients requiring help
• Transports patients or assists patient to walk
• Turns and repositions bedfast patients alone or with assistance, to prevent bedsores
• Changes bed linens, runs errands, directs visitors, and answers telephone
• Obtains and records temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration rates, food and fluid intake and output, and initial and daily weights, as directed
• Observes patient for signs/symptoms of pain
• Uses general care measures such as positioning for comfort, skin care/back rub, assists with splinting area of discomfort, reassures patient, assists with relaxation techniques
• Reports unrelieved/change in pain to RN
• Documents verbal and non-verbal response to intervention using rating scale system
• Answers patient questions regarding restraints, patient rights, orientation of patient rooms, use of equipment, and obtains feedback from the patient
• Able to pass EKG proficiency test by 80% or higher
• Can enter, review, retrieve, and discharge patients from the central station
• Fills out white board at the beginning of each shift
• Completes bedside shift-to-shift reporting
• Shows ability to work with the HMS system
• Compiles patient charts and flags charts for missing information
• Knowledge of the proper procedure in using PPE
• Labels specimens appropriately and delivers them to the lab in a timely manner
• Enters arrival information into EMR for newly admitted patients when they arrive to the unit

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required
• At least 6 months experience working in a health care facility preferred
• State Tested Nurse Aide (STNA)
• BLS required
• Required to take cardiac monitor classes within 1 year of hire, or pass the ECG proficiency test with 80% or higher score and successfully identify lethal arrhythmias

Schedule

6am - 6pm, Part Time

Job Location

Seaman