NACNA, 2nd FL MedSurg, 24 hours (3) 8 hour evening shifts, Varied schedule, Monday-Sunday, 300pm-1130pm, every other weekend and every other holiday

Overview

You Matter Here!

Heywood Healthcare values our employees! We offer competitive wages great benefits and generous earned time off. Come work where you will matter!

Hours : 24 hours (3) 8 hour evening shifts Varied schedule Monday-Sunday 3 : 00pm-11 : 30pm every other weekend and every other holiday

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Provides patient care based on standards of care standards of practice protocols and established policies and procedures under direction of a licensed nurse.
• Collects basic health data as directed by a licensed nurse.
• Assists patients with activities of daily care (e.g. personal hygiene toileting nutrition ambulation etc).
• Appropriately prioritizes patient care (e.g. seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources recognizes need for emergency intervention etc.)
• Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patients sense of dignity and positive self-regard.
• Provides thorough timely and accurate documentation of all pertinent patients according to established standards.
• Maintains clean and safe work environment (identifies and / or removes safety hazards).
• Provides timely and thorough information on assigned patients to supervising licensed nurse and other health care team members.
• Participates in learning for colleagues and self (attends educational programs in-services assist with orientation of new staff).
• Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical / health care errors (i.e. appropriate reporting of errors / incidents).
• Assists patients with activities of daily living including bathing shampooing shaving brushing teeth etc.
• Obtains heights and weights of assigned patients per care plan.
• Assists patients with ambulation using appropriate technique (i.e. gait belt).
• Assists patients with turning in bed and transferring from bed to stretcher or chair using appropriate technique (i.e. transfer mattress).
• Provides incontinent care to patients.
• Assists patients with eating and drinking per care plan.
• Maintains and documents fluid intake output measurements and vital signs on patients per care plan.
• Assists with obtaining late trays as needed.
• Maintains infection control precautions per Infection Control Policy.
• Cleans the food refrigerators on a weekly basis.
• Maintains unit food inventory on a daily basis.
• Prepares room for the next patient by cleaning and making bed.

Statement of Other Duties : This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood therefore that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.

Functional Demands

Physical Requirements :

Exerts 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally and / or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently and / or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Frequently kneels (bending the legs at knee to come to rest on knee or knees) reaches (extending hands and arms in any direction) and feels (perceiving attributes of items as size shape temperature or texture by means of fingertips). Occasionally crouches (bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine) and stoops (bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist).

Organizational Expectations

Behavioral Attributes :

The following behavioral attributes are required : achievement motivation concern for order flexibility initiative self-confidence customer service oriented interpersonal effectiveness teamwork analytical thinking and information seeking.

Qualifications

Job Requirements

Minimum Education

Minimum Work Experience

Required Licenses

Key Skills

Entry Level Sales,Customer Service,Hospital management,Corporate Finance,Lead Generation

Employment Type : Part-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1