Nursing Tech

Job Details

Job Location:

Jeff Davis Hospital - Hazlehurst, GA 31539

• Assist with Daily Living (ADLs). This includes helping patients with bathing, dressing, grooming feeding and toileting.
• Monitoring Vital Signs, taking and recording vital signs like temperature, pulse, respiration rate, and blood pressure.
• Assisting with Mobility, helping patients move, including transferring them between beds, wheelchairs, and other areas, as well as assisting with walking and exercise when appropriate.
• Providing Comfort and Support, developing nurturing relationships with patients and families, and providing emotional support. This may also involve assistance with comfort devices and safety measures.
• Observing and Reporting, carefully observing patients’ physical, mental, and emotional conditions, noting any changes, and reporting them to the primary nurse/charge nurse.
• Perform oral care, hair care, peri care, and catheter care.
• Weighs patients and documents weight in appropriate area
• Answers call lights for all patients in a courteous and timely manner;
  Positions call lights within reach of the patient.
• Documentation, maintaining accurate patient records and documenting care activities.
• Maintaining a clean and safe environment, changing bed linens, may at times be required to clean rooms, and ensure safety measures are in place such as bed alarms.
• Stoking supplies, replenishing medical supplies in patient rooms and other areas
• Assisting with procedures, assisting nursing staff and/or provider as directed.
• Transporting patients, understands and can safely use lift equipment, and assist with moving patients throughout the hospital for treatments, tests, procedures or activities, utilizing wheelchairs, stretchers, or beds.

• High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED)
• Minimum age of 18 years.
• One year’s experience as a nursing assistant or previous health care training.
• Nurse Aide Certification