Evening Surgical-Trauma Care Assistant I/II

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

Job summary

Stony Brook Medicine is seeking a Nursing Assistant I/II for the Surgical-Trauma Intermediate Care Unit on the evening shift. Under RN supervision, you will assist with daily living activities, monitor vital signs, document care, and support patients and families with empathy and respect.

Qualified candidates should have NYS CNA license or certification, one year of patient care experience, and a high school diploma or GED.

Qualifications

• NURSING ASSISTANT 1-Required: Possession of or ability to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills and abilities during the probationary period.
• NURSING ASSISTANT 2-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.

Skills

Nursing Assistant 1-Required

Nursing Assistant 2-Required

NYS CNA license

One year patient care experience

High School Diploma or GED

Education

High School Diploma or GED

NYS Certified Nursing Assistant license

Certification from CNA training program

Job description

Stony Brook Medicine is seeking a Nursing Assistant I/II for the Surgical-Trauma Intermediate Care Unit on the evening shift. Under RN supervision, you will assist with daily living activities, monitor vital signs, document care, and support patients and families with empathy and respect.

Qualified candidates should have NYS CNA license or certification, one year of patient care experience, and a high school diploma or GED.