Under the supervision of a registered nurse, responsible for providing support to nursing staff and assisting in the delivery of patient/resident care following patient care plan and hospital policies and procedures. Responsibilities:
- Provides routine patient/resident care services such as call light response; ambulating, transferring, and positioning; personal hygiene assistance, prescribed bowel and bladder program assistance, etc.
- Collects, records, and reports various patient/resident data. Reports changes in patient/resident condition.
- Provides general clerical support to unit such as answering the phone, data entry, and assembling, maintaining, and distributing various information.
- Transcribes physician orders and notifies appropriate parties of orders and consultations.
- Schedules procedures with other departments.
Required:
- High school graduate or equivalent.
- Successful completion of a health unit coordinator course or, high school or college course work in medical terminology and computer/data entry.
- Specialized education requirements, for those not meeting minimum six-month nursing assistance experience requirement, include:
oacute care nursing assistant course preferred for acute care positions orolong term care nursing assistant course orocompletion of an emergency medical technician program orocompletion of medical assistant program orocompletion of a clinical rotation while participating in accredited nursing program.
- Prior nursing assistant experience of at least six months is required when the specialized education requirements identified above has not been met.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification as Healthcare Provider or equivalent through the Military Training Network (MTN).
Preferred:
- Six months of clerical experience in healthcare setting. Direct patient care experience.
- Computer keyboard skills and windows application experience.
Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans. Additional Information
- Schedule: Part-time
- Requisition ID: 25003714
- Daily Work Times: 7p-7a
- Hours Per Pay Period: 46
- On Call: No
- Weekends: Yes