NURSING ATTENDANT II

Nursing Attendant / Nursing Assistant

The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) is the second largest municipal health system in the nation. Through its integrated system of 25 health centers, four (4) acute care hospitals and expanded network of community partner clinics DHS annually provides direct care for 600,000 unique patients, employs over 23,000 staff, and has an annual budget of over $6.9 billion. Through academic affiliations with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Southern California (USC), and the Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Sciences (CDU), DHS hospitals are training sites for physicians completing their Graduate Medical Education in nearly every medical specialty and subspecialty. In addition to its direct clinical services, DHS also runs the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency and the County's 911 emergency response system, as well as Housing for Health and the Office of Diversion and Re-entry, each with a critical role in connecting vulnerable populations, including those released from correctional and institutional settings to supportive housing.

To advance the health of our patients and our communities by providing extraordinary care.

Provides prescribed care to patients in an inpatient care unit.

Contributes to patient comfort and well-being by rearranging bedding and changing linen, serving, and removing meal trays and responding to requests for personal services.

• Performs a limited prescribed range of technical nursing tasks.
• Provides limited therapeutic services.
• Maintains a sanitary environment.
• Performs support tasks.
• Helps patients in all the usual activities of daily living.
• Carries on prescribed structured interaction.
• Protects patients and staff.
• Communicates with patients and members of their families.
• Administers passive exercises.
• Encourages patients to resuming normal functioning.
• Escorts patients to outside clinics.
• Assists physicians in performing medical procedures.

Training and experience as a Nursing Attendant / Nursing Assistant in a ward or clinic and completion of a training assignment or program recognized by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) in Nursing Attendant work. A current Basic Life Support (BLS) certificate for Healthcare Providers (CPR & AED) issued by the American Heart Association is required.