Unit Assistant UA - General Medical - PT Nights Gainesville

About the role

Provides a wide variety of support services for the units (s). Provides clerical support by maintaining patient records, unit supplies, equipment, and serving as a facilitator for communications for the assigned area. Functions under the direction of a registered professional nurse. Works collaboratively with the healthcare team. This position will care for patients in the adolescent, adult, and geriatric age groups.

Responsibilities

• Obtains and reports basic patient physiological data (such as vital signs, weight, skin condition, color and character of urine and stool).
• Maintains patient records and documents.
• Makes frequent rounds to patient's room in addition to responding without prompting to patient call lights, instituting appropriate actions.
• Explains procedure or care to be provided to patient prior to start of procedure such a mobilizing patient.
• Enters the time of patient discharge in the Electronic Medical Record.
• Ensures completeness of D/C’d patient chart before sending to Medical Records.
• Completes daily/weekly requisitions to accurately reflect the unit’s needs.
• Maintains printers by changing ribbons, replenishing paper and reporting problems to information systems.
• Participates in staff meeting with no more than two absences.
• Reads and responds to e-mails in timely manner.

Requirements

Minimum Job Qualifications: Licensure or other certifications: None required. Educational Requirements: High School Diploma, GED, or high school transcript showing completion of at least the sophomore level of high school. Minimum Experience: No previous experience is required. Candidates who have not successfully completed the Foundations of Nursing course (RN students only), have less than six months of PCT experience within the past two years, or do not hold a current and active CNA certification will be enrolled in the PCT Academy, NGHS’s in-house training program.

Qualifications

Preferred Job Qualifications: Preferred Licensure or other certifications: None required. Preferred Educational Requirements: None required. Preferred Experience: None required. Other: None required.

Skills

Ability to work effectively with other departments and the general public. Ability to accept direction from the nursing staff; ability to perform the basic skills and procedures designated for unit assistants. Typing skills preferred but not required; ability to operate the electronic medical record (EMR). Good interpersonal skills & adaptable in changing situations & work assignments. Must be able to concentrate during multiple interactions & interruptions.

Benefits

Northeast Georgia Health System is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification or status.