Nursing Assistant - Medical Surgical Department

UNC Health Care; North Carolina; On-site; USD 25,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

UNC Health Care’s Johnston Health Smithfield on 3rd Floor Medical/Surgical is hiring a Full-Time Nursing Assistant I. The unit handles a mix of medical patients with occasional pediatric cases; shifts are 12 hours (0645–1915 or 1845–0715) with every other weekend and rotating holidays.

Responsibilities include assisting physicians and staff, monitoring vital signs, performing basic care and ADLs, documenting changes, safeguarding patient comfort, and supporting families.

Qualifications

• Fluent in verbal and written English language.
• Basic computer skills required.

Responsibilities

• Assist physicians and other health care providers with routine examinations and procedures, as well as procurement of equipment and supplies during emergency situations.
• Aid patients in reality orientation, participate in behavior modification plans/therapy, provide supportive therapy to patients and families, de-escalate potentially aggressive patients, assist with care.
• Observe, collect, and document patient information and report significant changes to a registered nurse or physician.
• Assist patients and families during admission, orientation, and discharge.
• Provide care/treatments outlined in plan of care including vital signs, wound care, catheter care, glucose checks, ROM, and postural drainage.
• Provide direct personal care for activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, feeding and ambulation assistance.
• Perform indirect care including cleaning, stocking, sterilizing instruments, transporting patients, and orienting new staff.
• Reinforce patient education and distribute educational materials.

Skills

English fluency

Basic computer skills

Job description

Description

*This Full-Time position may qualify for $5,000.00 Commitment Incentive paid over three (3) years. Learn more about our UNC Health Johnston Incentive Program. Ask your Recruiter about details.

Become part of an inclusive organization with over 40,000 teammates, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the unique communities we serve.

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.

3rd Floor - Medical/Surgical

Third floor Johnston Health, Smithfield is a 33-bed Medical Surgical Unit that serves primarily medical patients, although Pediatric patients are seen occasionally for overnight observation. Third floor nurses will get exposure to wound/wound vac care, tube feedings and tracheostomies and will care for patients with a variety of medical diagnoses, to include:

• * Pneumonia
• * Congestive Heart Failure
• * Abdominal Pain
• * Altered Mental Status
• * Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• * Hypertension
• * Hypotension
• * Diabetes
• * Shortness of Breath, among others

Full time is 3 12-hour shifts. Our standard shifts are 0645-1915 and 1845-0715 with every other weekend. Holidays are rotated among staff. Each shift is staffed with a charge nurse and nurses are paired with an NA teammate to assist with care. Nurse-to-patient ratios on the unit are typically 1:5 or 1:6.

We have a strong team on 3rd floor Johnston Health Smithfield, and continuously seek ways to improve our processes through our Nurse Council. Our "ONE GREAT TEAM" understands that "It Takes a Village." Our ideal teammate will be able to work independently, while being committed to working together as a TEAM to provide the excellent care that our patients deserve.

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

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: 3rd Floor

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 36.00

Salary Range:$17.60 - $24.29 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.

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