Nursing Assistant - SCV SC (7a-3p)

Nursing Support

Provides for patient's personal hygiene : gives bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves, and assists with showers.

Responsibilities

1. Patient Care

• Assists in preparing unit and patient room and bed in an effort to ensure that patients are adequately and properly accommodated during their hospital stay. Assists and accompanies patients during admission, transfer, and discharge procedures in a manner that demonstrates compassion and understanding for each patient.
• Takes and records patient temperature, pulse, respiration, weight, height, blood pressure, and intake-output measurement as directed by appropriate personnel in a caring and efficient manner and documents information in CIS. Expediently reports any unusual incidents or observed changes in patient condition or behavior to appropriate personnel.
• Assists patients with daily living activities (e.g., bed bath, oral hygiene, shaving, dressing, back rubs, linen freshening), and provides general care (e.g., positioning patients, pre- and post-operative care, assisting with bed pan use) in a manner that demonstrates compassion and understanding for all patients.
• Prepares patients for meals, serves food, and feeds patients when needed in a manner that demonstrates compassion and respect for patient needs.
• Transports patients to and from designated areas of the hospital in a caring, considerate, expedient, and professional manner. Ensures that patients have identification bracelets before transportation and demonstrates compassion and respect in all contacts with patients, family members, and fellow employees.
• Retrieves medications from the pneumatic tube system and / or pharmacy and delivers the medications to the nurse and / or place medications in a secure location as determined by the nurse manager.

2. Quality

3. Collaboration & Partnership

4. Other Duties As Assigned

Qualifications

Job Identification : 43593

Job Category : Nursing

Locations : 200 Dominican Dr, Madison, MS, 39110, US

Job Shift : Day & Weekend

Job Function : Nursing Support

Worker Type : Employee

Regular or Temporary : Regular

Requisition Schedule : Full-Time

Hours of Schedule (e.g. M-F 8a-5p) : 6 : 30a-3p

Department : Skilled Nursing SC-St Catherines Village

FMOLHS Company Code : St Catherines Village Inc