Compassionate Mental Health Technician - Night Shift

UNC Health Care; Woodridge (NC); On-site; USD 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Nash UNC Health Care in North Carolina is seeking a Nurse Assistant I to support the professional caregiver in patient care, transporting patients and equipment, setting up and maintaining patient rooms, and performing a broad range of clerical and unit desk duties.

Responsibilities include assisting with routine examinations and procedures, aiding in psychiatric care, documenting patient information, and helping with admission, orientation, and discharge processes.

Qualifications

• Completion of an approved Nurse Assistant I course approved by the North Carolina Board of Nursing.
• Current listing with the NC Division of Health & Human Service Regulation Health Care Personnel.
• Current NC Driver's License and meets insurance requirements to drive hospital-owned vehicles.
• Current BCLS certification.
• CPI certification required within 90-days of starting to the unit.

Responsibilities

• Assist physicians and other health care providers with routine examinations and procedures, as well as procurement of equipment and supplies during emergency situations.
• In the psychiatric setting, aid patients in reality orientation, participate in behavior modification plans/therapy, provide informal support therapy to patients/families, provide verbal de-escalation of potentially aggressive patients, aid in the physical management of aggressive/out-of-control patients, facilitate age appropriate play for children, and monitor the therapeutic milieu activities on assigned unit to ensure that emotional and safety needs of patients are met.
• Observe, collect, and document patient information obtained while providing care and promptly report significant changes in the patient's condition to a registered nurse or physician.
• Provide assistance to patients and their families during admission to the clinical area, orientation to the hospital/clinic/home health experience, and discharge
• Provide care/treatments to patients as outlined in plan of care including, but not limited to, measurement of vital signs, height and weight, specimen collection, skin preps/scrubs, catheter care, capillary blood glucose checks, simple wound care, range of motion exercises, postural drainage, and supportive patient and family interactions.
• Provide direct personal care to patients as outlined in plan of care for routine activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, feeding and assisting with ambulation.
• Provide indirect care to patients and assigned area to include cleaning the work area, changing linens, restocking supplies, cleaning/sterilizing instruments, transporting patients/supplies/specimens, assisting in the orientation of new employees and students, and some routine clerical functions.
• 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.

Education

Nurse Assistant I course approved by the North Carolina Board of Nursing

Tools

NC Driver's License

BCLS Certification

Job description

Nash UNC Health Care in North Carolina is seeking a Nurse Assistant I to support the professional caregiver in patient care, transporting patients and equipment, setting up and maintaining patient rooms, and performing a broad range of clerical and unit desk duties.

Responsibilities include assisting with routine examinations and procedures, aiding in psychiatric care, documenting patient information, and helping with admission, orientation, and discharge processes.