Compassionate Nursing Assistant: Patient Care & Support

Alameda Health System; San Leandro (CA); On-site; USD 44,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Alameda Health System in California is seeking a paraprofessional nursing worker to perform routine inpatient and outpatient tasks under close supervision. Responsibilities include assisting with meals, hygiene, vitals, specimen collection, and basic patient care in a hospital or clinic setting.

Ideal candidates will have a High School diploma or GED with extra training, and a minimum of six months para-professional nursing experience. BLS, CPI, and Nursing Assistant certification are required.

Qualifications

• Education: High School diploma or GED with additional training a minimum. College graduate preferred.
• Minimum Experience: Six months para-professional nursing training as a Hospital Services Trainee with AHS or the equivalent of one year full-time recent experience performing work comparable to a Nursing Assistant in a hospital or medical facility.
• BLS - Basic Life Support Certification issued by the American Heart Association.
• CPI - Crisis Prevention Intervention Training (required for all positions at John George Psychiatric Pavilion; and certain positions in the Emergency Department).
• Current Nursing Assistant certification (required for positions at Highland and Fairmont Hospitals).

Responsibilities

• Assists patients with meals, personal hygiene and incontinent care; gives cleansing and retention enemas to patients; assists in catheterization and bladder irrigations.
• Assists registered nurse and licensed vocational nurses in administering treatment and other nursing tasks as needed; promptly answers call lights promptly and administers to patient comfort and safety by adjusting beds, lights, bed rails, pillows, patients' clothing and bedside tables/equipment; observes and reports any deviation in patients' condition/status; keeps patient areas clean and orderly.
• Obtains and sets up suction equipment; performs nasal and tracheal suctions; administers oxygen using tents and masks; turns and positions patients; assists patients to and from wheelchairs and gurneys; and assists patients with ambulation and crutch walking.
• Takes patients' vital signs (temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure); performs routine tests such as urine dip stick, urine pregnancy test, vision and hearing tests and promptly reports findings to supervising personnel; administers simple range of motion exercises; assists in application of traction devices; positions and drapes patients for examination or treatment; transports patients to other areas of the hospital in wheelchair or gurneys.
• When assigned as a sitter, responsible for but not limited to protecting the patient(s)/resident(s) from harm and assisting in meeting their emotional and physical needs through one-to-one continuous observation. Provide ongoing observation and basic patient care. Educate patients on health related topics or discharge information per scope of duties.
• When assigned to an outpatient setting, prepares examination room, ensuring that it is stocked with the necessary supplies, equipment and instruments for the type of clinic to be held; weighs, takes and documents patients' vital signs; assists physicians or mid-level practitioners during the examinations as directed; collects, labels and takes specimens to the lab; assists in the maintenance of a clean and well supplied clinical area; stocks shelves and monitors expiration of medical supplies and medications.

Education

High School diploma or GED

College graduate preferred

Job description

Alameda Health System in California is seeking a paraprofessional nursing worker to perform routine inpatient and outpatient tasks under close supervision. Responsibilities include assisting with meals, hygiene, vitals, specimen collection, and basic patient care in a hospital or clinic setting.

Ideal candidates will have a High School diploma or GED with extra training, and a minimum of six months para-professional nursing experience. BLS, CPI, and Nursing Assistant certification are required.