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Position Summary:

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.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

1.

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.

2.

Collects, records, and reports various patient/resident data.

Reports changes in patient/resident condition.

3.

Provides general clerical support to unit such as answering the phone, data entry, and assembling, maintaining, and distributing various information.

4.

Transcribes physician orders and notifies appropriate parties of orders and consultations.

5.

Schedules procedures with other departments.

6.

Performs surgical skin preps, basic skin care procedures, bedside finger stick blood sugars, and quality control checks of blood glucose instruments.

7.

Performs general unit support activities such as postmortem care, cleaning of rooms and areas, running errands, making deliveries, responding to Code Blue pages, Code Red, etc.

8.

Ambulates, transfers, and positions patients/residents safely and effectively.

9.

Responds to patient/resident call lights quickly and efficiently.

10.

Performs assigned aspects of the patient/resident care plan in an efficient and effective manner.

11.

Maintains medical record in an orderly fashion with documents placed under appropriate chart dividers.

12.

If employee is a Nurse Assistant II, will continue within the scope of practice as a NA II and such duties.

13.

Performs other related responsibilities as necessary.

_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:

acute care nursing assistant course preferred for acute care positions

_or_

long term care nursing assistant course

_or_

completion of an emergency medical technician program

_or_

completion of medical assistant program

_or_

completion 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.

+ 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