Hospice Nursing Assistant

Job Details

Job Location:

Western Hickory/Vale - Mountain View, NC 28602

Position Type:
Full Time

Education Level: High School

Travel Percentage:
Local Travel

Job Shift: Day

Job Category:
Health Care

VIA Health Partner sis an industry leader and top-10 nationally ranked provider of end-of-life care. More importantly we are proud to be a community based, not for profit hospice & palliative care provider. We have deep community roots, with decades of experience serving ALL patients’ and families’ needs regardless of their ability to pay or their medical complexity. We are a people first organization whose funds go to serve our mission.

Due to our significant growth, we are looking for amazing new staff who share these same values.

• Medical, Vision, and Dental plans through BCBS
• 28 days of Paid Time Off
• Excellent mileage reimbursement rate
• 403b Retirement plan with matching
• Focused programs honoring Veteran patients
• Assistance with achieving Certified Hospice & Palliative Nurse (CHPN)
• Best Orientation and Onboarding program you’ve experienced
• Seasoned Hospice leaders guiding your career growth

"Delivery of patient care"

• An NA provides personal care (ADL) including the following:
  • Bathing (assist, bed bath, tub bath, shower, and sitz).
  • Body Mechanics (turn and position, transfer-chair and stretcher, use of lifts, assist with ambulation, range of motion exercises).
  • Nutrition (prepare patient for meal time, feed patients, measure intake and output, prepares snacks and assists with meals).
  • Elimination (bedpan/urinal, bowel/bladder retraining, collect/test specimens, perineal/catheter care, apply condom catheter, douches, enemas, insert rectal tubes/flatus bags, empty drainage devises from body cavities/wounds, maintain gastric suction).
  • Safety (side rails/call rails, mitts and restraints, CPR/Heimlich maneuver, infection control including hand washing, isolation techniques and universal precautions).
  • Special procedures (vital signs including temperature, oral, rectal, axillary; pulse, radial and apical; respirations and BP;
    Height and weight, application of heat/cold, prevention and care for decubitus ulcers, surgical skin preps and scrubs, clean dressing changes, apply ace bandages, TEDs and binders, postmortem care, assist with cough/deep breathing).
  • Performs housekeeping services that are necessary for the health and safety of the patient/family/caregiver.
  • Participates in interdisciplinary team conferences (IDT) and special case conferences.

• Sterile dressing for wounds over 48 hours old; wound irrigation.
• Ostomy care or ostomy irrigation.
• Insertion of urinary catheter is limited to replacement of an existing catheter once the Nursing assessment is completed. (No irrigation of urinary catheters).
• Oxygen therapy including room set-up and monitoring of flow-rate.

• Breaking-up and removal of fecal impaction.
• I.V. Fluid
  - Assisted Activities (assemble/flush tubing during set-up, monitoring flow rate, sitecare/dressing change, discontinuing peripheral intravenous infusions).
• Nutritional activities (oral/nasogastric infusions after placement verification by a licensed nurse,gastrostomy feedings, clamping tubes, removing oral/nasogastric feeding tubes).
• Suctioning (Oropharyngeal, nasopharyngeal).
• Tracheostomy care.
• Insertion of urinary catheter is limited to replacement of an existing catheter once the Nursing assessment is completed. (No irrigation of urinary catheters).
• Sterile dressing for wounds over 48 hours old; wound irrigation.
• Ostomy care or ostomy irrigation.
• Oxygen therapy including room set-up and monitoring of flow-rate.

• Attends and participates in interdisciplinary team conferences [IDT] and special care conferences.
• Assumes responsibility for establishing and…