Compassionate Nursing Assistant II

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

State pension

Generous leave

Job summary

Stony Brook Medicine seeks a Nursing Assistant 2 in the US-NY Stony Brook area to provide empathetic patient care under the supervision of a registered nurse. The role involves direct patient care, routine measurements, basic bedside tasks, and assisting with daily living activities while maintaining patient dignity and confidentiality.

The position requires at least one year of full-time patient care experience; preferred NYS CNA license and a high school diploma or GED.

Qualifications

• Required: One year of satisfactory full-time experience in the provision of simple treatment and other patient care services under professional supervision.
• Preferred: NYS Certified Nursing Assistant license or certification from an approved certified nursing aide training program, one year of patient care experience and a 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.

Job description

Stony Brook Medicine seeks a Nursing Assistant 2 in the US-NY Stony Brook area to provide empathetic patient care under the supervision of a registered nurse. The role involves direct patient care, routine measurements, basic bedside tasks, and assisting with daily living activities while maintaining patient dignity and confidentiality.

The position requires at least one year of full-time patient care experience; preferred NYS CNA license and a high school diploma or GED.