Nursing Assistant , Float Team​/Per Diem

Position: Nursing Assistant 1, Float Team - Hourly/Per Diem
Nursing Assistant 1, Float Team - Hourly/Per Diem

Job No: 496925
Department: NURSING & FLOAT PERSONNEL
Local

Title:

Nursing Assistant 1, Float Team - Hourly/Per Diem
Budget

Title:

Nursing Assistant 1
Work Type: Hourly
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Categories: Clinical, Patient Care, Nursing Support

Are you looking to take your career to new heights with a leader in healthcare? SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is one of the nation's leading metropolitan medical centers. As the only academic medical center in Brooklyn, we serve a large population that is among the most diverse in the world. We are also highly-ranked by Castle Connolly Medical, a healthcare rating company for consumers, among the top 5 leading U.S. medical schools for training doctors.

Bargaining Unit:

CSEA

Job Summary:

The Department of Nursing at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is seeking an hourly/per diem Nursing Assistant 1, Float Team.

Nursing Assistants provide care to individuals in hospitals and long-term care facilities operated by New York State. Care ranges from attending to patients' personal hygiene needs, to performing a limited number of simple treatments and therapies under direction of licensed clinical staff. Incumbents provide direct hands-on care to individuals by assisting with bathing, dressing, perineal care, mobility, eating, and other daily living activities.

Distinguishing Characteristics

Nursing Assistant 1: entry level; performs basic patient care duties under direction of a nurse, physician, or other clinician; may assist Nursing Assistants 2, physicians, and nurses in the performance of care functions. Incumbents at this level receive in-service training in a limited number of care procedures, leading to eligibility to qualify for appointment to Nursing Assistant 2.

Nursing Assistants have frequent face-to-face communication with patients and visitors for the purposes of conveying treatment procedure and visitor information. Incumbents attempt to encourage and support patients who may be despondent or apprehensive, and regularly communicate with clinical staff to convey information on patients' physical conditions and responses to treatment. This information includes items such as observable physical behavioral changes, fatigue levels, and general behaviors and responses to routine treatments, such as foot soaks.

Illustrative Duties

Nursing Assistant 1 - Under direct clinical supervision, performs the following duties:

• Changes simple dressings as directed, gives enemas, douches, and irrigations as directed.
• Applies abdominal "T" binders, hot water bottles, aqua "K" pads, ice bags, and coolers, and hot and cold compresses to patients as directed.
• Assists patients in collecting urine and stool specimens.
• Observes and records patients' quantitative food and fluid intake and waste output.
• Takes temperature, pulse rate, blood pressure and respiration rate.
• Gives therapeutic baths such as sitz and fever sponge baths.
• Measures and records height and weight.
• Inspects functioning oxygen therapy equipment including tents, masks, and cannulae to ensure appropriate functioning.
• Recognizes and reports abnormal signs and symptoms of common diseases and conditions to clinical staff.
• Applies splints, braces, slings and other self-help devices.
• Operates a variety of specialized patient monitoring and treatment devices.
• Attends to patients' hygiene and daily living needs in order to maintain an atmosphere conducive to patient comfort and treatment. Examples include bathing and dressing patients, brushing teeth, and trimming nails.
• Collects and carries patients' laundry and dry cleaning and delivers objects to appropriate locations in the health care facility.
• Receives patients' belongings and transports objects to safe storage, keeping appropriate records.
• Feeds patients requiring assistance.
• As directed by clinical staff, moves, positions, lifts and transports patients using a variety of lifts and other aids in order to make patients comfortable, prepare patients for treatment, deliver patients to treatment areas, and to prevent contractures.
• Brings bedpans and urinals to patients requiring assistance and attends to incontinent…