Nursing Assistant - Transplant and Intermediate Care Unit FT, Day

Prisma Health; Greenville (SC); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Prisma Health in Greenville is seeking a Nursing Assistant to support patient care under RN supervision. You will assist with activities of daily living, vital signs, and documentation, while ensuring patient safety and a clean environment. Experience with EMR is beneficial, but no prior experience is required.

Day shift opportunities at Greenville Memorial Hospital TIMC department offer hands-on support and patient-centered care in a collaborative setting.

Qualifications

• Completion of a nursing assistant program (preferred).
• No previous experience required.
• EMR/documentation experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assist patients with activities of daily living and hygiene.
• Take and record vital signs.
• Collect urine, stool, and sputum specimens and deliver to the proper department.
• Complete documentation in EMR accurately and timely.
• Maintain clean and organized patient areas and supplies.
• Perform point-of-care testing as trained and delegated by RN.

Skills

Patient care

Vital signs

EMR documentation

Infection control

Education

Nursing assistant program

Job description

Inspire health. Serve with compassion. Be the difference.

Job Summary

Assists the Registered Nurse in providing patient care based on the individualized plan of care for a patient. As delegated, performs basic nursing activities. Conducts data collection, monitors and documents patient status. Ensures confidentiality of all patient information. Utilizes safe patient handling at all times. Informs RN of activities performed, observations of patients and changes in patient status. Provides a neat and clean patient environment.

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

Day (United States of America)

Location

Greenville Memorial Hospital

Facility

Greenville Memorial Hospital

Department

Transplant and Intermediate Care (TIMC)

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