About this role
JOB SUMMARY
To assist licensed personnel in the delivery of quality patient care.
ORGANIZATIONAL EXPECTATIONS
- Provides a positive and professional representation of the organization.
- Promotes culture of safety for patients and employees through proper identification, reporting, documentation and prevention.
- Maintains hospital standards for a clean and quiet patient environment to maintain a positive patient care experience.
- Maintains competency and knowledge of current standards of practice, trends, and developments in related scope of job role or practice.
- Adheres to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
- Participates in ongoing quality improvement activities.
- Maintains compliance with organization's policies for handling confidential patient information.
- Complies with organizational and regulatory policies for handling confidential patient information.
- Demonstrates excellent customer service through his/her attitude and actions, consistent with the standards contained in the Vision, Mission, and Values of the organization.
- Adheres to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, local requirements, and TJC standards and/or standards from other accrediting bodies.
Physical Demands
- Ability to walk/stand for long periods of time.
- Use correct body mechanism to position patients
- Assist patients movement to BSC, chair, and ambulating.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Ability to perform complete and accurate vital signs.
- Consistently rounds on patients to anticipate needs.
- Passes meal trays in a timely manner, providing wet cloth for patients use. Ensures that all patients who are able, are sitting up and are comfortable for the meal. Picks up meal trays in a timely manner.
- Feeds patients who are unable to feed themselves.
- Provides ice water at least once every shift to bedside for patients who are able to have ice water. Removes additional fluids from patients on fluid restrictions.
- Offers/Provides bath, linen change to patients who require assistance or complete care, and documents on activity record. Notifies licensed personnel if patient refuses bath and/or linen change, and documents on activity record.
- Obtain intake and output as directed by physician or plan of care.
- Update patient board in room daily.
- Assists in admission process by obtaining vital signs, providing personal care items and room orientation.
- Utilization of critical thinking skills in prioritization of care.
- Ability to identify changes in patient condition and notifies licensed personnel of any change in patient condition.
- Provide safe environment.
- Documents all patient and family teaching as requested/necessary.
- Demonstrates correct use and troubleshooting of equipment.
- Participates in the development, prioritization, and evaluation of individualized plan of care.
- Assist in modification of plan based on patient's response. Provides information directly to the physician and documents appropriately.
- Ability to take directions from licensed and administrative professionals.
- Attempts to resolve conflict independently, if unable, seeks the assistance of department leader.
- Provides health care at the best value without compromising patient care.
- Utilizes the Pyxis appropriately, obtains items under specific patient's name and returns unused items.
- Assist with chart completion and copying of all paperwork.
- Coordinates with nursing supervisor and/or materials management for supply items that cannot be obtained from the Pyxis.
- Ensures chart is documented and changes are added to the patient charge sheet.
- Provides assistance to the physician during examination of patient.
- Transports patient to procedures as needed.
- Regularly attends monthly staff meetings.
Minimum Education
- High School Graduate or GED equivalent.
Required Licenses
- Certified Nurse Assistant preferred.
- CPR/BLS certified.
Minimum Work Experience
- One year experience in Nursing/Surgery preferred.