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GENERAL PURPOSE OF JOB :
To provide general clerical, equipment and patient care support to patient care units.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and / or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job description is not intended to be all-.
inclusive; employees will perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and / or hospital administration as required.
- Maintains utmost level of confidentiality at all times.
- Adheres to hospital policies and procedures.
- Demonstrates personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines.
- Clerical duties : respond to communication devices such as phone / vocera / call bells, able to complete basic entries into the electronic medical record;
records patient data in EMR, transcribes written orders.
- Room / Patient care / Equipment management : stocks supply, checks for expiration dates, orders supply, cleans equipment, cleans toys.
- Infectious material exposure : transports blood borne pathogen or other patient specimens, picks up blood from blood bank and delivers to the unit;
- sprays surgical instruments with enzymatic cleanser and prepares / transports them for processing, packages or moves infectious waste containers for disposal;
may provide in rooms support for patients on airborne precautions.
Patient care support : measures, records and empties urine collection devices, empties bedpans / commodes, reinforces established education material or room orientation with patients / families;
transports patients (no IV or Oxygen) off unit for tests / procedures, discontinues Peripheral IV’s, obtains Point of Care specimens and urine, wound, stool throat and nasal specimens.
Patients at risk for self-harm or harm to others performs room safety check, performs non- clinical patient assistant in addition can perform 1 : 1 supervision for at risk patients including patients in restraints (not hard restraints) basic data collection and documentation.
EDUCATION AND / OR EXPERIENCE :
Graduate from a Nurse Aide School
CERTIFICATES, LICENSURE, REGISTRATION :
- Nurse Aide Certification
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) obtained within prior to hire and maintained continuously thereafter.
- Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NCI) within 6 months of hire and maintained continuously thereafter.