Clinical Support Tech I ICU PRN

UNC Health Care; British Woods (NC); On-site; USD 23,000 - 33,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition Reimbursement

Nursing Clinical Ladder

Great benefits

Job summary

UNC Health Caldwell Memorial ICU in Lenoir, NC is seeking a Per Diem Nursing Assistant I to support bedside care and unit operations. You will assist with patient care, transport, and clerical tasks under the supervision of licensed staff.

The role offers tuition reimbursement, Nursing Clinical Ladder opportunities, competitive benefits, and flexible self-scheduling to balance life and work in a high-acuity environment.

Qualifications

• Must be fluent in verbal and written English and able to communicate with patients and staff.
• Strong computer skills for documentation and orders.
• Demonstrates reliability and teamwork in a fast-paced ICU setting.

Responsibilities

• Assist physicians and health care providers with routine examinations and procedures and procure equipment and supplies.
• Review patient care documentation and report significant changes to nurses or physicians.
• Perform clerical tasks: organize workload, greet visitors, transcribe orders, and maintain medical records.
• Provide clinical support: clean work area, troubleshoot equipment, transport patients and supplies.
• Provide direct personal care: bathing, feeding, ambulation assistance, vital signs, height/weight.
• Reinforce patient education and distribute educational materials.

Skills

Fluent English

Computer skills

Education

High school diploma or GED

Nursing Assistant I certification

Basic Life Support (BLS) certification

Job description

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

UNC Health Caldwell ICU

Is your passionto provide patient critical care while assisting their families through an uncertain time? If so, you were meant for ICU. There is opportunity to work with interdisciplinary teams (onsite hospitalists, intensivists, and virtual physicians) with management of patients' needs. Advanced interventions are utilized to provide specific diagnostic results to assist with the plan of care for each patient. Self-scheduling allows flexibility to meet life's needs! Let us help you with your additional degrees with Tuition Reimbursement; Nurse Professional advancement with a Nursing Clinical Ladder. We also offer competitive salary rates and great benefits! UNC Health Caldwell is the place you belong!

Summary:
Responsible for assisting the professional caregiver in the delivery of patient care, transporting patient and/or equipment, setting up and maintaining patient rooms and performing a wide range of clerical, transcription, and maintenance of the patient care unit desk area functions.

Responsibilities

1. Assists physicians and other health care providers with routine examinations and procedures, as well as procurement of equipment and supplies.
2. Critically reviews patient care documentation making note of any significant changes in the patient's condition and make an immediate report to a registered nurse or physician.
3. Provides a variety of clerical tasks to include but not limited to organizing and prioritizing workload, greeting and directing visitors, researching information as requested by nurses and physicians, reviewing orders for logic and clarity, revising orders as requested by the nurse, answering the telephone/ patient call lights, transcribing physician orders, and maintaining medical records. Performs routine quality assurance audits, safety checks, and inventory of supplies. Provides administrative and clerical support including PI audits and data entry.
4. Provides clinical support assistance to include, but not limited to, cleaning the work area, maintaining office equipment, troubleshooting common software and hardware problems, changing linens, checking supply inventory, re-stocking supplies, transporting patients/ supplies/ specimens, and assisting in the orientation of new employees and students.
5. Provides direct personal care to patients as outlined in plan of care activities such as bathing, dressing, feeding, assisting with ambulation. Measures and records vital signs, and patient height and weight. May be responsible for specimen collection, skin preps/scrubs, catheter care, capillary blood glucose checks, simple wound care, range of motion exercises, and/or postural drainage.
6. Reinforces routine teaching given to patients by the registered nurse or physician and document patient understanding of instructions. Distributes patient education materials at the request of patients and/or health care providers

Other Information

Education Requirements:

• High school diploma or GED required; higher-level degree may satisfy this requirement.

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

• Listed as a Nursing Assistant I by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Service
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification

Professional Experience Requirements:

• Prior experience not required.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

• Must be fluent in verbal and written English language. Capability to develop computer skills if not competent.

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: Caldwell Memorial Hospital

Organization Unit: Nursing 4 West ICU

Work Type: Per Diem

Standard Hours Per Week: 12.00

Salary Range:$16.51 - $23.62 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Variable

Location of Job: US:NC:Lenoir

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.
UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [e-mail] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.