Temporary Nurse Attendant
Employment Type : Full-Time
Responsibilities:
The Nurse Attendant has the unique responsibility of directly enhancing patient experience and transforming care each and every day. In this role, you will be a key member of the nursing care team, assisting patients with activities of daily living. You will also perform basic nursing care functions and provide assistance in the maintenance of a safe and clean environment.Responsibilities Include:1. 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
2. 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
3. Maintains patient care units in a neat and orderly condition:- Changes and makes beds
- Cleans and straightens bedside table and over-bed 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 area
- Prepares room for new admissions, transfers and post-operative patients
4. Assists Registered Nurse by performing selected procedures and simple treatments:- Takes and records temperature, pulse, respiration rate, and B.P. upon 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
- Shaves 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).
5. 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 over-bed 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
- Ensures that non-patient rooms (i.e. utility rooms, linen rooms, kitchens, etc.) are 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
6. Takes part in Nursling'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
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.