Nursing Assistant I (Per Diem) - Acute Neurosurgery and ENT Care

UNC Health Care; Chapel Hill (NC); On-site; USD 25,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, NC is seeking a Nursing Assistant I (per diem) to join the Acute Neurosurgery and ENT Care Unit. This 12-hour rotating shift position offers minimum 24 hours per month with day/night coverage and weekend/holiday rotation.

You will provide routine direct and indirect patient care under the supervision of a registered nurse or physician, assist with examinations, measure vital signs, and support patients and families throughout admission, care, and discharge.

Qualifications

• Fluent in English and basic computer skills required.
• Prefer six months of nursing assistant experience.

Responsibilities

• Assist physicians and other health care providers with routine examinations and procedures, and obtain equipment during emergencies.
• In psychiatric settings, aid reality orientation and de-escalation.
• Observe and document patient information, report significant changes to RN/physician.
• Assist patients and families during admission, orientation, and discharge.
• Provide care and treatments per care plan, including vital signs, wound care, and ROM.
• Provide direct personal care for activities of daily living.
• Provide indirect care: clean work area, restock supplies, transport patients/equipment.
• Reinforce patient education and distribute educational materials.

Skills

Fluent in English

Basic computer skills

Teamwork

Education

Nursing Assistant I certification

Job description

Nursing Assistant I (Per Diem) - Acute Neurosurgery and ENT Care

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Looking for a highly engaged, team-oriented candidate to join our dynamic culture!

Nursing Assistant I (per diem) needed for theAcute Neurosurgery and ENTCare Unit at UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, NC.The Acute Neurosurgery and ENT Care Unit is an 27-bed unit comprised of post-operative surgical patients.Our Neurosurgical patients have a variety of presentations including post-operative brain and spinal surgeries, cancer, neuro- and spinal-trauma, and stroke. Our ENT patients predominately present with head and neck malignancies, including cancer and infection, and require a variety of surgical interventions involving the head, mouth, tongue, jaw, thyroid, and oropharynx.

Working on this unit will provide countless opportunities to expand and strengthen foundational clinical and critical thinking skills including, but not limited to, airway management, tracheal suctioning, drains, feeding tubes, in-depth neurological and stroke assessment, and much more.

We take pride in our dynamic, supportive and engaged team by focusing on creating an organized environment of excellence, fun, and innovation. We respect and prioritize work-life balance and celebrate our long-standing culture of positivity, recognition, accountability, and teamwork.

Our unit has received two consecutive Gold Beacon Awards for Excellence. The AACN created the Beacon designation to recognize individual units that have set a path to excellence in an effort to highlight units that distinguish themselves in every facet of patient care. Recipients of a Beacon designation demonstrate excellence in sustained unit performance and patient outcomes.

This is a Per Diem/at-will position requiring the ability to work a minimum of 24 hours every month; Shifts are for rotating days & nights, 12 hours (7am-7:30pm & 7pm-7:30am), with weekend and holiday rotation.

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. Assist physicians and other health care providers with routine examinations and procedures, as well as procurement of equipment and supplies during emergency situations.
• 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. 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. Provides assistance to patients and their families during admission to the clinical area, orientation to the hospital/clinic/home health experience, and discharge
• 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. 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. 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. 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.

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Looking for a highly engaged, team-oriented candidate to join our dynamic culture!

Nursing Assistant I (per diem) needed for theAcute Neurosurgery and ENTCare Unit at UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, NC.The Acute Neurosurgery and ENT Care Unit is an 27-bed unit comprised of post-operative surgical patients.Our Neurosurgical patients have a variety of presentations including post-operative brain and spinal surgeries, cancer, neuro- and spinal-trauma, and stroke. Our ENT patients predominately present with head and neck malignancies, including cancer and infection, and require a variety of surgical interventions involving the head, mouth, tongue, jaw, thyroid, and oropharynx.

Working on this unit will provide countless opportunities to expand and strengthen foundational clinical and critical thinking skills including, but not limited to, airway management, tracheal suctioning, drains, feeding tubes, in-depth neurological and stroke assessment, and much more.

We take pride in our dynamic, supportive and engaged team by focusing on creating an organized environment of excellence, fun, and innovation. We respect and prioritize work-life balance and celebrate our long-standing culture of positivity, recognition, accountability, and teamwork.

Our unit has received two consecutive Gold Beacon Awards for Excellence. The AACN created the Beacon designation to recognize individual units that have set a path to excellence in an effort to highlight units that distinguish themselves in every facet of patient care. Recipients of a Beacon designation demonstrate excellence in sustained unit performance and patient outcomes.

This is a Per Diem/at-will position requiring the ability to work a minimum of 24 hours every month; Shifts are for rotating days & nights, 12 hours (7am-7:30pm & 7pm-7:30am), with weekend and holiday rotation.

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: STATE

Entity: UNC Medical Center

Organization Unit: Acute Neurosurgery and ENT

Work Type: Per Diem

Standard Hours Per Week: 6.00

Salary Range:$18.00 - $24.66 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:Chapel Hill

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.
UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities.