Evening Nursing Assistant: Empathetic Patient Care

Stony Brook University; Stony Brook (NY); On-site; USD 42,000 - 46,000; Part time

Job summary

Stony Brook University is seeking a Nursing Assistant I/II for the 15 South facility. This part-time evening shift role supports patient care under RN supervision, focusing on dignity, communication, and quality care.

Responsibilities include monitoring vitals, assisting with activities of daily living, and maintaining a clean clinical environment while documenting care and procedures. Hiring includes pre-employment checks and compliance with NYS requirements.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for patient and family interaction.
• Ability to respond to changing patient needs with professional judgment.
• Understanding of patient care standards and ethical principles.

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

Ethical decision making

Education

NYS Certified Nursing Assistant license or CNA training program certification

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Stony Brook University is seeking a Nursing Assistant I/II for the 15 South facility. This part-time evening shift role supports patient care under RN supervision, focusing on dignity, communication, and quality care.

Responsibilities include monitoring vitals, assisting with activities of daily living, and maintaining a clean clinical environment while documenting care and procedures. Hiring includes pre-employment checks and compliance with NYS requirements.