Nursing Assistant I Med/Surg

UNC Health; Eden (NC); Sur place; USD 21 000 - 30 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

UNC Health in Eden, NC is seeking a Nursing Assistant I to join the 2nd Floor Nurse unit. This full-time, onsite role offers a night schedule, 36 hours per week, and a pay range reflecting local standards.

You will work under supervision to provide routine care, assist with examinations, document patient information, and support patients and families through admission and discharge processes. Training, BLS certification, and NC Nursing Assistant I licensure are required.

Qualifications

• Fluent in verbal and written English.
• Able to develop basic computer skills.

Responsabilités

• Assist physicians and health care providers with routine examinations and procedures.
• Aids patients in reality orientation in psychiatric settings and participates in behavior modification plans.
• Observe, collect, and document patient information and report changes to nurse/physician.
• Assist patients and families during admission, orientation, and discharge.
• Provide care including vital signs, specimen collection, wound care, ROM, postural drainage, and patient/family interactions.
• Provide direct personal care for activities of daily living (bathing, dressing, feeding, ambulation).
• Assist with indirect care: cleaning, linens, restocking, sterilizing, transporting, and orientation of staff.
• Reinforce instruction and distribute patient education materials.

Connaissances

English language

Basic computer skills

Description du poste

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Summary: Provides routine direct and indirect patient care in a hospital, clinic or home health care setting. All work performed is under the direct supervision of a registered nurse or physician.

Responsibilities:

1. 1. Assist physicians and other health care providers with routine examinations and procedures, as well as procurement of equipment and supplies during emergency situations.


2. 2. In the psychiatric setting, aids patients in reality orientation, participates in behavior modification plans/therapy, provides informal support therapy to patients/families, provides verbal de-escalation of potentially aggressive patients, aids in the physical management of aggressive/out-of-control patients, facilitates age appropriate play for children, and monitors the therapeutic milieu activities on assigned unit to ensure that emotional and safety needs of patients are met.


3. 3. Observes, collects, and documents patient information obtained while providing care and promptly report significant changes in the patient's condition to a registered nurse or physician.


4. 4. Provides assistance to patients and their families during admission to the clinical area, orientation to the hospital/clinic/home health experience, and discharge.


5. 5. Provides care/ treatments to patients as outlined in plan of care including, but not limited to, the measurement of vital signs, height and weight, specimen collection, skin preps/scrubs, catheter care, capillary blood glucose checks, simple wound care, range of motion exercises, postural drainage, and supportive 11 patient and family interactions.


6. 6. Provides direct personal care to patients as outlined in plan of care for routine activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, feeding and assisting with ambulation.


7. 7. Provides indirect care to patients and assigned area to include, but not limited to, cleaning the work area, changing linens, re-stocking supplies, cleaning/sterilizing instruments, transporting patients/ supplies/ specimens, assisting in the orientation of new employees and students, and some routine clerical functions.


8. 8. Reinforces routine teaching given to patients by the registered nurse or physician and document patient understanding of instructions. Distributes patient education materials at the request of patients and/or health care providers.

Other Information

Education Requirements

• None required as long as all other position requirements are met.

Licensure/Certification Requirements

• Listed as Nursing Assistant I with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services


• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification

Professional Experience Requirements

• Prefer six (6) months of nursing assistant experience.

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements

• Fluent in verbal and written English language and able to develop basic computer skills.

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC Rockingham Health Care Organization

Unit: RHC 2nd Floor Nurse

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 36.00

Salary Range: $15.40 - $21.95 per hour (Hiring Range)Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Night Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Eden

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities.