Nursing Assistant - Emergency Department

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✅ 13-26 vacation days (accrues from day 1!)

✅13 sick days (accrues from day 1!)

✅11 Paid Federal holidays

✅Childcare subsidy

✅Pension + Federal 401k with up to 5% employer matching contribution

✅Outstanding scholarship and education support opportunities

Duties

Provides assistance with bathing and personal hygiene needs, shower or bed bath, shaving, nail care, toileting, and activities of daily living. Drains catheter bags, sets up meal trays and assists with feeding, monitors and documents food/fluid intake and output, and turns and repositions bedridden patients regularly to prevent skin breakdown.

Uses appropriate safe patient handling (SPH) equipment for patient turns, re-positioning and transfers to minimize risk of injury to patient and self. Keeps patient area clean and tidy, removes excess clutter, and makes beds. Answers the call light and does bedside rounding. Room set up for admission, and breakdown for discharges.

At all times demonstrates effective and professional communication skills with the patient and family, especially with clients experiencing behavioral issues, depression, anger, irritation, suicide ideation, substance abuse withdrawal and pain or discomfort.

• Identifies and reports data relative to more complex patient situations including subtle changes in patients' behavior or condition, or variances related to neurological signs, vital signs, and other parameters.

Major duties will include, but will not be limited to:

• Takes direction and assists nurses in the care and treatment of the ill receiving care in the Emergency Department.
• Observes and reports to the professional nurse changes in patient vital signs, behavior, attitude, bodily complaints, and appearance. Reports atypical or abnormal capillary blood glucose (CBG) results and vital signs to the nurse immediately.
• Ensures two patient identifiers for all tests conducted, e.g., ECG's and CBG's. Provides appropriate level care to patients experiencing extremes of behavior, including the severely depressed, suicidal, or homicidal patient, and the drug or alcohol abuse patient.
• Recognizes emergency situations and intervenes while awaiting assistance. Provides nursing treatment for acutely ill patients whose needs require advanced skill such as placing patient on cardiac monitor, taking EKG's.
• Assists nurses in the performance of bedside diagnostic examinations and therapies by ensuring patient privacy, setting up with equipment and supplies and performing duties such as monitoring vital signs, preparing and positioning the patient, or by performing a variety of routine diagnostic tests.
• Maintains cleanliness and removes unnecessary items from the immediate procedural area. Observes universal precautions and facility workplace guidelines at all times.
• Reports observations of the condition of acute or chronic phase patients such as excessive vomiting, profuse bleeding, type and amount of drainage, skin integrity, patency of airway to nurse.
• Prepares patients for transport to diagnostic procedures that occur outside of the unit.
• Enters specific information onto patients' records or charts, including vital signs and daily weights. Follows designated charting technique to post to patients' charts that provides a daily outline or summary of the patient's care. Documents pertinent information inducing current health status, and/or subtle changes in the patient's biopsychosocial status.
• Performs direct patient support work including personal patient care and/or patient teaching.
• Teaches patients and family members the necessity to continue recommended therapeutic procedures for proper health care.
• Provides specific health information based on patient's condition, e.g., acceptance of limited physical mobility, proper body mechanics, pre- and postoperative breathing techniques, etc. Refers inquiries as appropriate to professional nurses and other members of the interdisciplinary team.

Work Schedule: 5 openings, variable shifts to include days, nights, evenings, and rotating weekends. Available shift times: 0800-2030, 1000-2230, 1200-0030, 1700-0530

Basic Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP)
• Participation in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Personnel

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $39,794.00 - $64,966.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Caregiver leave
• Continuing education credits
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Family leave
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Loan forgiveness
• Loan repayment program
• Paid orientation
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Paid training
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Physical setting:

• High acuity unit
• Hospital
• Inpatient
• Magnet hospital
• Teaching hospital

Standard shift:

• Day shift
• Evening shift
• Night shift
• Overnight shift

Supplemental schedule:

• Holidays
• Overtime

Weekly schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Rotating weekends
• Weekends as needed

Application Question(s):

• Please provide your personal e-mail address.
• You must be a US Citizen to apply for this job. Are you a US Citizen?

License/Certification:

• CNA (Preferred)

Work Location: In person