Compassionate Nursing Assistant - Full-Time NICU

Stony Brook Medicine; Stony Brook (NY); On-site; USD 38,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Stony Brook Medicine in New York is seeking Nursing Assistants I/II to support RN staff in the NICU and related units, delivering empathetic patient care and assisting with communications to patients, families, and visitors.

Qualified candidates will demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills, knowledge of patient care, and the ability to respond to changing patient needs with ethical judgment. Pre-employment checks and NYS CNA certification are required.

Qualifications

• Must possess NYS Certified Nursing Assistant license or certification from an approved training program.
• One year of satisfactory full-time patient care experience is required.
• High School Diploma or GED.

Responsibilities

• Change simple dressings as directed, give enemas, douches, and irrigations as directed.
• Apply hot water bottles, aqua K pads, ice bags, and coolers, and hot and cold compresses as directed.
• Chart and document care and/or behaviors as required.
• Take temperatures, pulse rates, blood pressure and respiration rate.
• Attend to daily living activities, personal, hygienic, and simple human needs in order to maintain in the clinical facility an atmosphere conducive to treatment and comfortable for persons in care.
• Feed persons requiring assistance in order to assure that such individuals receive appropriate nourishment.
• Bathe and dress, brush teeth and trim fingernails and toenails of persons in care.
• Maintain persons in care rights, dignity, and confidentiality.
• On occasion and in conjunction with providing care, may perform a variety of housekeeping and cleaning duties as related to direct care in order to assure that the clinical facility is clean, sanitary, orderly, and properly supplied.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Patient care knowledge

Education

NYS Certified Nursing Assistant license

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Stony Brook Medicine in New York is seeking Nursing Assistants I/II to support RN staff in the NICU and related units, delivering empathetic patient care and assisting with communications to patients, families, and visitors.

Qualified candidates will demonstrate strong communication and interpersonal skills, knowledge of patient care, and the ability to respond to changing patient needs with ethical judgment. Pre-employment checks and NYS CNA certification are required.