• Nursing Assistant - Interventional Recovery Unit…

    Queen's Health System (Honolulu, HI)


    RESPONSIBILITIES

    I. JOB SUMMARY/RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Performs a variety of duties pertaining to patient care, patient transportation, material and supply distribution and equipment assembly.

    • Performs duties in accordance with departmental and Medical Center policies, procedures and regulations.

    II. TYPICAL PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

    • Essential: lifting up to 2 pounds, seeing, hearing, talking, grasping, fingering.

    • Continuous: standing, walking, stooping, forward reaching, handling.

    • Frequent: pushing and pulling up to 30 pounds, lifting up to 10 pounds, sitting, bending.

    • Occasional to frequent: squatting, twisting.

    • Occasional: pushing and pulling up to 50 pounds; lifting: horizontal lift/carry up to maximum 50 pounds, floor to waist up to 35 pounds, waist to shoulder up to 25 pounds, overhead level up to 15 pounds; carrying up to 35 pounds, running, climbing, side bending, kneeling, crouching, overhead reaching.

    • Operates various machines/tools/work aids.

    III. TYPICAL WORKING CONDITIONS:

    • Inside work.

    • Exposure to body fluids, blood products, and communicable diseases.

    • Work environment may be highly stressful, fast paced and hectic.

    • Assignment to inpatient adult psych areas and Family Treatment Center includes occasionally accompanying patients outdoors.

    • Management of confused/disoriented and combative patients may involve tasks that may compromise physical safety.

    IV. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

    A. EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE:

    • Ability to read, write, speak and understand English, both orally and in writing.

    • Minimum one (1) year work experience as a Nurse Aide; or,

    o Diploma or certificate as a Nurse Aide.

    o Diploma or certificate as a Medical Assistant.

    o Diploma or certificate as an Emergency Medical Technician.

    o Diploma or certificate as a Patient Care Technician.

    o Nursing student having completed a semester of clinical fundamentals; or,

    o RN with a foreign RN license with at least one (1) year acute care experience.

    • Current certification in BLS/HCP.

    B. EXPERIENCE:

    • Recent experience in an acute care setting preferred.

     

    Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Vet