Nursing Assistant I - Progressive Care Unit

UNC Health Care; North Carolina; On-site; USD 25,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health Johnston PCU in Smithfield, NC, is seeking a Nursing Assistant I to provide routine direct and indirect patient care under supervision. The role supports monitoring, basic care tasks, and patient safety on a 36-hour weekly schedule.

The position involves assisting with examinations, documenting patient information, preparing supplies, and teaching basic care to patients and families, while maintaining a compassionate, patient-centered approach.

Qualifications

• Fluent in verbal and written English.
• Basic computer skills required for documentation and orders.
• Experience as Nursing Assistant or similar preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Assist physicians and healthcare providers with routine examinations and procedures as needed.
• Observe, collect, and document patient information and report changes to a nurse or physician.
• Assist patients with admission, orientation, and discharge processes.

Skills

Fluent in English

Basic computer skills

Job description

Description

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Progressive Care Unit (PCU) Department

UNC Health Johnston PCU Department includes 19 intermediate level of care beds. Our team provides high-quality care to a variety of patients including but not limited to antiarrhythmic and vasoactive drips, continuous Bi-PAP, and many other treatment modalities. Patients admitted to the Progressive Care Unit are on a continuous cardiac monitor. Ratios for intermediate level of care are 4 patients to 1 nurse. UNC Johnston is a Stroke, Chest Pain and STEMI accredited facility. Our PCU team consists of Registered Nurses, Monitor Techs and Patient Care Assistants that are committed to provide excellent, compassionate, and innovative care for our growing community.

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.

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: NCHEALTH

Entity: Johnston Health

Organization Unit: Progressive Care Unit

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 36.00

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: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Smithfield

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 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.