Nursing Attendant/Certified

UNAVAILABLE; Hicksville (NY); On-site; USD 25,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

1199 SEIU Employment and Job Placement Division in Nassau and Suffolk Counties is seeking Nursing Attendants to join hospital care teams. You will support RN colleagues, help with ADLs, and ensure patient comfort and safety within a busy clinical environment.

The role involves assisting with meals, personal care, mobility, and basic procedures under supervision. A high school diploma and nurse assistant training or equivalent experience are required.

Qualifications

• Needs effective communication and ability to follow written and/or oral instructions
• Ability to work in diversified settings and lift/position patients as required

Responsibilities

• Functions as a co-worker to the nurse and a key member of the nursing care team
• Organizes patient care assignment and sets priorities
• Alerts RN co-worker to changes in patient status
• Documents patient care and patient status changes on the chart forms
• Communicates routine information to RN during shift
• Assists RN with ADL needs and meals
• Feeds or assists with meals and provides nourishment
• Bathes patients and assists with bathing and oral hygiene
• Assists with toilets and mobility, including ROM and ambulation
• Grooms the patient and participates in plan of care development
• Maintains patient care units in neat condition and prepares rooms for new admissions
• Performs procedures and simple treatments under RN supervision
• Transports patients and reports equipment issues
• Maintains non-patient areas and cleans equipment
• Participates in nursing education requirements

Skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Adaptability

Education

High School Diploma

Nurse Assistant course

Job description

Overview

1199 SEIU Employment and Job Placement Division is here to help you secure a career with one of our esteemed hospitals in Nassau & Suffolk Counties. We are currently seeking Nursing Attendants.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Functions as a co-worker to the nurse and a key member of the nursing care team:
• Organizes patient care assignment and sets priorities.
• Alerts RN co-worker to changes in patient status i.e., alteration in comfort, skin integrity, alterations in breathing pattern, etc.
• Documents patient care and patient status changes on the appropriate chart forms.
• Communicates routine information to RN periodically during shift i.e., intake and output.
• * Assists RN in providing for ADL needs of patients:
• Prepares patients for meals, and feeds or assists with meals.
• Provides between meal nourishment and fresh water to patients.
• Bathes or assists patient to bathe, provides oral hygiene.
• Toilets patients as necessary.
• Maintains patient's mobility with range of motion exercises and ambulation.
• Grooms patient, including shaving, as needed.
• Participates with the RN in the development of a plan of care for assigned patient.
• Utilizes a plan of care in carrying out patient assignments.
• * Maintains patient care units in a neat and orderly condition:
• Changes and makes beds.
• Cleans and straightens bedside table and overbed tables, as needed.
• Strips patient units upon discharge of patient, in preparation for cleaning by Housekeeping Department.
• Removes equipment from room. Cleans and place it in appropriate are.
• Prepares room for new admissions, transfers and post-operative patients.
• * Assists Registered Nurse by performing selected procedures and simple treatments:
• Takes and records temperature, pulse, respiration rate and B.P on admission and as assigned.
• Measures and records fluid intake and output; totals at shift end.
• Obtains specimens, such as urine, stool and sputum.
• Administers enemas, as directed.
• Weighs and records patient weight on admission and as indicated.
• Shave patients as instructed in preparation for procedures.
• Performs simple procedures utilizing aseptic technique (i.e – applying and changing simple dressings).Performs simple respiratory treatments, as required (i.e – suctioning).
• * Performs a variety of related duties:
• Assists patients in and out of bed, ambulates patients, lifts, turns and positions patients.
• Assists with serving of meals; positions patient, cleans overbed table, and helps distribute and collect trays.
• Transports and accompanies patients to various departments, as directed.
• Reports missing or damaged equipment to Unit Service Coordinator.
• Maintains non-patient rooms (i.e., utility rooms, linen rooms, kitchens, etc.) in a neat and orderly condition.
• Maintains cleanliness of patient care equipment.
• Performs constant observation on selected patients as assigned.
• Follows medical Center's policies and procedures to support QA/QI efforts in patient care and services.
• Performs post-mortem care and transports body to morgue.
• * Takes part in Nursing's continuing education policy by:
• Attending nursing attendant course during orientation program.
• Participating and completing annual mandatory educational requirements.
• Attending nursing attendant staff development programs offered throughout the year.
• Performs related duties, as required.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or equivalent, required.
• Completion of Nurse Assistant course or equivalent, required OR prior experience as a Nursing Attendant or equivalent, required.
• NYS Nurse Attendant certification, preferred.
• Ability to communicate effectively, and follow written and/or oral instructions.
• Ability to work in diversified settings. Ability to lift, turn, position, etc. Patients, as required.