Nursing Department assistant Geriatric Psych

Cleveland Clinic; Fort Wayne (IN); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Cleveland Clinic Health System is seeking a Nursing Department Assistant for the Geriatric Psych unit at Lutheran Hospital. The role provides daily living support, helps with patient care tasks under RN supervision, and ensures a safe, clean environment.

You will assist with EKGs, glucose monitoring, specimen collection, and vital sign documentation as part of the care team. Requires a High School Diploma or GED; STNA preferred and BLS required within the new hire period.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates empathy and interacts with patients, visitors, and all personnel in a courteous, helpful manner.
• Ability to resolve conflict constructively and maintain patient confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Assist with a wide variety of patient care tasks and collaborate with health care team.
• Organize patient care assignments to ensure timely delivery and completion.
• Seek assistance for difficult tasks or problem solving.
• Document care provided in patient records.
• Label specimens properly.
• Ask patients about pain and report to RN/LPN as needed.
• Use pain scales and monitor patient comfort.
• Maintain orderliness and cleanliness of unit and equipment.
• Prepare rooms for patient admissions and ensure safety during rounds.
• Report equipment or supply issues to the RN immediately.
• Make hourly rounds to verify safety measures and proper bed positioning.
• Ensure bed alarms are activated during rounds and use PPE.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Empathy

Teamwork

Confidentiality

Communication

Attention to detail

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

At Cleveland Clinic Health System, we believe in a better future for healthcare. And each of us is responsible for honoring our commitment to excellence, pushing the boundaries and transforming the patient experience, every day.

We all have the power to help, heal and change lives — beginning with our own. That’s the power of the Cleveland Clinic Health System team, and The Power of Every One.

Job Title

Nursing Department assistant Geriatric Psych

Location

Cleveland

Facility

Lutheran Hospital

Department

Trans Senior Mental Health 6D-Lutheran Hospital

Job Code

G0007W

Shift

Days

Schedule

7:00am-3:30pm

Job Summary

Provides for patients’ daily living activities; maintains safe and clean environment, maintains supplies, maintains equipment function. Transports patients and completes errands. With direction from RN assists in direct patient care tasks (i.e. performs EKGs, blood glucose monitoring, specimen collection, dressing changes, colostomy care and documentation of vital signs).

Job Details

Responsibilities:

• Assist with wide variety of patient care tasks and collaborates with members of health care team to promote the delivery of patient care.
• Organizes patient care assignments to ensure timely delivery and completion of care on assigned patients.
• Seeks assistance as necessary for difficult assignments or problem solving.
• Documents the care provided in patient record.
• Labels specimens properly.
• Asks patient about pain and reports to the RN/LPN as needed.
• Utilizes pain scale.
• Maintains orderliness and cleanliness of unit including patient/unit equipment.
• Keeps patient areas neat and uncluttered and prepares rooms for patient admissions.
• Cleans and maintains patient/unit equipment (i.e. over-bed tables, bed pans, bedside commodes).
• Reports any problems (i.e. equipment, supplies and maintenance problems) immediately to the RN.
• Makes hourly patient rounds (based on patient condition) to assure that safety measures are in place (i.e. side rails up as needed; beds in low, locked position; phone and call lights are within the patients’ reach; and restraints are applied appropriately.
• Ensures that all bed alarms are activated during hourly rounds. Utilizes personal protective equipment and universal comfort to assist the patient toward independent living.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education:

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Requires basic math skills and ability to read and write.

Certifications:

• State Tested Nursing Assistant (STNA) certification preferred.
• Successful completion of Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross required within new hire period.

Complexity of Work:

• Demonstrates empathy and interacts with patients, visitors, and all personnel in a courteous, helpful manner; able to resolve conflict in a constructive manner; able to maintain confidentiality regarding patients, families and co-workers; demonstrates respect for individual cultural and social differences.
• Requires ability to work with minimal supervision.

Work Experience:

• Previous nursing assistant experience preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patient, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires frequent standing, walking, kneeling, reaching, squatting, bending/stooping and lifting patients.
• Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.
• Requires working under stressful conditions and irregular hours.
• Exposure to communicable diseases and/or body fluids.
• Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

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