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SalaryUConn Health is looking for current BSN Nursing Students who want to gain experience in acute healthcare. This position will work in the Medica/Surgical Float pool.
SCHEDULE: Schedule will vary and based on departmental needs. THIS POSITION IS SCHEDULED TO START WITH ORIENTATION ON MAY 17, 2024.
EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING:
- Fall 2024 Junior or Senior BSN student
- Must be available to work during the summer, while school is in session and during breaks in Farmington, CT
- One (1) or more semesters of clinical experience.
- BLS Certification through the American Heart Association
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY:
- Considerable interpersonal skills
- Ability to work with basic principles of nursing including infection control practices
- Ability to deal with physically and chronically ill
- Ability to learn safety and fire procedures.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assists doctors and nurses in general care and well-being of patients
- Positions, transfers, moves and lifts patients
- May feed, bathe and massage clients as well as respond to their general needs
- Takes and records temperatures, pulses and respirations
- Observes patients and reports unusual symptoms and/or behavior
- Ensures that restraints are correctly applied
- Tests urine samples for sugar; collects specimens
- Keeps beds, bedpans and related equipment clean
- Maintains unit environment for safety of patient
- Transports patients, specimens and other related patient items
- May order supplies and perform clerical duties
- Performs related duties as required
WORKING CONDITIONS;
- Incumbents in this class may be required to lift patients and perform other physically tiring work
- May have some exposure to communicable and/or infectious diseases and strongly disagreeable conditions and to risk of injury from assaultive patients.
HOURLY RATE: $15.69
Why UConn Health
UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.
