Nursing Assistant

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Nursing Assistant function as a member of the health care team and provides direct patient care to inpatient Veterans at the Battle Creek VA Medical Center. The Nursing Assistants are expected to provide direct resident care including bathing, grooming, dressing, oral care, feeding, toileting, transferring, turning and engaging the residents in meaningful activities and restorative nursing programs. The Nursing Assistant serves as a member to the interdisciplinary care team and engages with the resident, the resident's family and other members of the care team designing and implementing the resident's unique plan of care.

The Nursing Assistant performs a variety of personal nursing care duties which include but are not limited to:

• Maintaining a safe physical environment.
• Recognizing potentially hazardous conditions on the neighborhoods and reporting them to the Registered Nurse (RN).
• Taking and charting vital signs, height and weight.
• Completing complex nursing procedures including bathing, hygiene, grooming, dressing, toileting, oral suctioning, catheterization, colostomy irrigation and care, caring for residents with supplemental oxygen therapy and assisting the Physician or RN with physical examinations and procedures.
• Engaging the residents in meaningful activities.
• Observing and documenting disturbed behaviors and working with the interdisciplinary team on managing resident's behaviors and improving resident comfort.
• Charting residents' physical and emotional responses and progress, describing subtle behavioral changes and interactions with other, and reporting and recording care.
• Nursing Assistant function as a member of the health care team and provides direct patient care to inpatient Veterans at the Battle Creek VA Medical Center. The Nursing Assistants are expected to provide direct resident care including bathing, grooming, dressing, oral care, feeding, toileting, transferring, turning and engaging the residents in meaningful activities and restorative nursing programs. The Nursing Assistant serves as a member to the interdisciplinary care team and engages with the resident, the resident's family and other members of the care team designing and implementing the resident's unique plan of care.
  
  The Nursing Assistant performs a variety of personal nursing care duties which include but are not limited to:
• Maintaining a safe physical environment.
• Recognizing potentially hazardous conditions on the neighborhoods and reporting them to the Registered Nurse (RN).
• Taking and charting vital signs, height and weight.
• Completing complex nursing procedures including bathing, hygiene, grooming, dressing, toileting, oral suctioning, catheterization, colostomy irrigation and care, caring for residents with supplemental oxygen therapy and assisting the Physician or RN with physical examinations and procedures.
• Engaging the residents in meaningful activities.
• Observing and documenting disturbed behaviors and working with the interdisciplinary team on managing resident's behaviors and improving resident comfort.
• Charting residents' physical and emotional responses and progress, describing subtle behavioral changes and interactions with other, and reporting and recording care.

Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional

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Sunday through Saturday, 7:00AM to 7:30PM. Hours may be rotated or extended based on the needs of the Medical Center and our Veterans.

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Competitive salary and regular salary increases

37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

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This is not a virtual position.

: 93523A/93524A/93525A

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