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 area.
- 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 blood pressure 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 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.
- Accesses medication delivery and/or medication areas, as authorized, in the performance of required duties, as needed.
- Performs related duties, as required.
Job Qualification
- High School Diploma or equivalent, required.
- Heart Saver Certification, preferred.
- Prior experience as a Nursing Attendant, preferred.
- Ability to lift, turn, position, etc. Patients, as required.
- Ability to work in diversified settings.
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