Nursing Assistant I (Per Diem) - Surgical Observation Unit

UNC Health Care; Chapel Hill (NC); On-site; USD 25,000 - 33,000; Part time

Job summary

UNC Health Care System in Chapel Hill, NC, is seeking a Nursing Assistant I on a per diem basis to provide direct and indirect patient care in the Surgical Observation Unit. The role involves rotating 12-hour day and night shifts, including weekends and holidays, with on-site assignments.

Requirements include NC Nursing Assistant I licensure, BLS certification, and a preference for 6 months of CNA experience.

Qualifications

• Fluent in verbal and written English language and able to develop basic computer skills.
• Prefer six (6) months of nursing assistant experience.
• Nursing Assistant I certification with NC DHHS.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.

Responsibilities

• Assist physicians and other health care providers with routine examinations and procedures, as well as procurement of equipment and supplies during emergency situations.
• In psychiatric settings, aid patients in reality orientation and participate in behavior modification plans.
• Observe, collect, and document patient information and report significant changes to RN/physician.
• Assist patients and families during admission, orientation, and discharge.
• Provide care/treatments per plan of care including vitals, wound care, glucose checks, and ROM exercises.
• Provide direct personal care for activities of daily living including bathing, dressing, feeding, and ambulation.
• Perform indirect care: cleaning, restocking, transporting, orientation, and clerical tasks.
• Reinforce patient teaching and distribute education materials.

Skills

Fluent English

Basic computer skills

Job description

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.

Nursing Assistant I (per diem) needed for the Surgical Observation Unit. The Surgery Observation unit, in the state-of-the-art North Carolina Surgical hospital, is a 15-bed unit, which provides care to a varied adult surgical population to include patients on observation status, extended recovery from PACU, and at times, those awaiting an inpatient bed assignment. Staff members are challenged by the pace of the unit and the many general and specialty services they care for to include such as ENT, Plastics, Trauma, Oncology amongst many others! Teamwork and interdisciplinary collaboration are hallmarks for this unit while providing expert "Carolina Care" to the patients and families we serve. Our ONE GREAT TEAM facilitates admissions, treatments, transfers, and discharges of patients 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

This is a Per Diem / at-will position requiring the ability to work a minimum of 12 hours every 2 weeks; Shifts are for rotating day & night, 12 hours (7am-7:30pm & 7pm-7:30am) with weekend and holiday rotation.

For more information on our Surgical Hospital, click below:

North Carolina Surgical Hospital| UNC Hospitals | Chapel Hill (uncmedicalcenter.org)

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

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: Surgical Observation Unit

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: Rotating

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.

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