Nursing Assistant I – Float Pool (Full-Time)

aah; United States; On-site; USD 33,360 - 55,598; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Educational assistance

Job summary

Advocate Health is seeking a Nurse Aide to provide essential patient care in a 36-hour work week, with three shifts and four weekends in a six-week cycle. Responsibilities include bathing, feeding, vital signs, specimen collection, and daily documentation under RN supervision.

Qualifications include a high school diploma or GED, completion of a Nurse Aide program, DFS Nurse Aide Registry listing, and BLS certification. Excellent communication and compassion are essential in this role.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Completion of an approved Nurse Aide Training Program or student nurses meeting DFS Nurse Aide Registry requirements.
• Current listing with the DFS Nurse Aide Registry as a Nurse Aide I required.
• Current American Heart Association Basic Cardiac Life Support HealthCare Provider certification required.

Responsibilities

• Performs personal care for the comfort and well-being of the patient; includes bed bath, tub bath, shower, sitz bath, mouth care, skin care, hair care and nail care.
• Serves and collects food trays. Feeds patients and records dietary intake.
• Distributes ice, water and nourishments. Measures and records intake and output.
• Assists the patient with bedpan, urinal, bedside commode, bowel and bladder training.
• Records daily bowel function. Applies condom catheters.
• Collects and tests specimens (urine, feces, sputum).
• Administers cleansing, fleet and/or retention enema.
• Provides perineal and catheter care.
• Empties drainage device from body cavities/wounds and records.
• Maintains gastric suction.
• Assists with simple non-sterile dressing changes, application and removal of ace bandages, sequential compression device, heat application, pelvic and cervical traction, application.
• Makes occupied and unoccupied beds.
• Performs pm care to promote patient comfort.
• Takes and records temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure.
• Obtains and records patient weight and height.
• Turns and positions patients.
• Does not initiate but participates in the application and removal of restraint devices as directed by the Registered Nurse or Licensed Care Provider Assists in monitoring the patient in restraints for safety, circulation, hydration, nutrition and elimination.
• Assists with postmortem care.
• Provides hand-off communication appropriate to job duties.
• Reports and documents information related to assigned duties.
• Assists with maintaining documentation according to established policies and procedures.
• Assists patients with transfers to bed, wheelchair stretcher.
• Assists with Range of Motion exercises.
• Initiates or participates in CPR.
• Provides continuous observation of a patient or patients when assigned to serve in this capacity.
• Provides continuous observation for assigned patients on suicide precautions or patients in behavior management restraints
• Provides instructions to patients and family members according to approved protocols and/or the plan of care as delegated by and under the supervision of the Registered Nurse. Documents spoken or observed response.
• Performs fingerstick for blood glucose monitoring upon competency verification
• Retrieves blood products (upon competency verification)

Skills

Patient Care

Feeding Assistance

Vital Signs

Specimen Collection

Bed Mobility

Personal Hygiene

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Nurse Aide Training Program

Nurse Aide I Registry

BLS/CPR Certification

Job description

Advocate Health is seeking a Nurse Aide to provide essential patient care in a 36-hour work week, with three shifts and four weekends in a six-week cycle. Responsibilities include bathing, feeding, vital signs, specimen collection, and daily documentation under RN supervision.

Qualifications include a high school diploma or GED, completion of a Nurse Aide program, DFS Nurse Aide Registry listing, and BLS certification. Excellent communication and compassion are essential in this role.