Nursing Assistant - Neuroscience & Stroke Unit FT, Nights

Prisma Health; Greenville (SC); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Prisma Health in Greenville Memorial Hospital's Neuroscience & Stroke Unit is seeking a Night Shift Nursing Assistant. You will collect patient data, assist with daily living activities, and support RN with treatments, ensuring safety and comfort.

No prior experience is required; completion of a nursing assistant program is preferred. Duties include vital signs, specimen collection, documentation in EMR, and maintaining clean rooms and equipment during night shifts.

Qualifications

• Education - Completion of a nursing assistant program preferred.
• Experience - No prior experience required.

Responsibilities

• Assist with activities of daily living and hygiene.
• Take and record vital signs; address questionable values.
• Prepare patients for meals and assist with feeding.
• Collect urine, stool, and sputum specimens; deliver to lab as requested.
• Complete documentation in EMR accurately and timely.
• Maintain cleanliness of patient rooms and surrounding areas.
• Perform point-of-care testing as trained; report lab values.

Skills

Nursing assistant skills

Vital signs

Patient hygiene

EMR documentation

Education

Nursing assistant program

Tools

EMR

Job description

• Experience - No previous experience required.

Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.

Job Summary

Under the direction of a Registered Nurse assumes responsibility for the collection of data related to patient status. Performance of basic nursing procedures. On-going collection and documentation of patient data. Assistance with treatments and procedures. Assistance with maintenance of patient care equipment.

Essential Functions

• All team members are expected to be knowledgeable and compliant with Prisma Health's purpose: Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.
• Assists patients with activities of daily living and hygiene. Turns and repositions patients alone or with assistance. May transport patients and assist with walking. Assisting adult/pediatric patients with toileting needs in relation to their age including emptying established colostomy bags and urinary catheter removal. Assists with fall prevention interventions and patient restraints as delegated. Removing and reapplying anti-emboli hose or compression devices.
• Assists with admission of patients to the unit by preparing room, greeting, and orienting patient and/or family to the unit (bed, call light, phone, TV).
• Takes and records vital signs and with repeating questionable values.
• Prepares patients for meals and assisting in feeding and providing snacks and supplements.
• Collects urine, stool, and sputum specimens. Delivers specimens to appropriate department as requested.
• Completes documentation in EMR in accurate and timely manner.
• Maintains cleanliness and order of hospital room, utility room, diet kitchen, hallways, and alcoves. Disposes of excess linen and keeps linen emptied.
• Performs point of care testing as trained and delegated by RN. Reports lab values to RN.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Supervisory/Management Responsibilities

• This is a non-management job that will report to a supervisor, manager, director or executive.

Minimum Requirements

• Education - Completion of a nursing assistant program preferred.
• Experience - No previous experience required.

In Lieu Of

• NA

Required Certifications, Registrations, Licenses

• NA

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• NA

Work Shift

Night (United States of America)

Location

Greenville Memorial Hospital

Facility

Greenville Memorial Hospital

Department

Neuroscience & Stroke Unit

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