Nursing Department Assistant - Med / Surg Tele

Nursing Department Assistant - Med / Surg Tele

Location : Cleveland

Facility : Lutheran Hospital

Department : 4D Medical Unit-Lutheran Hospital

Shift : Evenings

Schedule : 3 : 00pm-11 : 30pm

Job Summary : Provides for patients' daily living activities; maintains safe and clean environment, maintains supplies, maintains equipment function. Transports patients and completes errands. With direction from RN assists in direct patient care tasks (i.e. performs EKGs, blood glucose monitoring, specimen collection, dressing changes, colostomy care and documentation of vital signs).

Responsibilities :

• Assist with wide variety of patient care tasks and collaborates with members of health care team to promote the delivery of patient care.
• Organizes patient care assignments to ensure timely delivery and completion of care on assigned patients.
• Seeks assistance as necessary for difficult assignments or problem solving.
• Documents the care provided in patient record.
• Labels specimens properly.
• Asks patient about pain and reports to the RN / LPN as needed.
• Utilizes pain scale.
• Maintains orderliness and cleanliness of unit including patient / unit equipment.
• Keeps patient areas neat and uncluttered and prepares rooms for patient admissions.
• Cleans and maintains patient / unit equipment (i.e. over-bed tables, bed pans, bedside commodes).
• Reports any problems (i.e. equipment, supplies and maintenance problems) immediately to the RN.
• Makes hourly patient rounds (based on patient condition) to assure that safety measures are in place (i.e. side rails up as needed; beds in low, locked position; phone and call lights are within the patients' reach; and restraints are applied appropriately.
• Ensures that all bed alarms are activated during hourly rounds. Utilizes personal protective equipment and universal comfort to assist the patient toward independent living.
• Other duties as assigned.

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