Nursing Assistant - Medical Surgical Department

Incentive Info

This Full-Time position may qualify for $5,000.00 Commitment Incentive paid over three (3) years. Learn more about our UNC Health Johnston Incentive Program. Ask your Recruiter about details.

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Provides routine direct and indirect patient care in a hospital, clinic or home health care setting. All work performed is under the direct supervision of a registered nurse or physician.

Third Floor Johnston Health, Smithfield Is a 33-bed Medical Surgical Unit That Serves Primarily Medical Patients, Although Pediatric Patients Are Seen Occasionally For Overnight Observation. Third Floor Nurses Will Get Exposure To Wound/wound Vac Care, Tube Feedings And Tracheostomies And Will Care For Patients With a Variety Of Medical Diagnoses, To Include

• Pneumonia
• Congestive Heart Failure
• Abdominal Pain
• Altered Mental Status
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Hypertension
• Hypotension
• Diabetes
• Shortness of Breath, among others

Full time is 3 12-hour shifts. Our standard shifts are  and  with every other weekend. Holidays are rotated among staff. Each shift is staffed with a charge nurse and nurses are paired with an NA teammate to assist with care. Nurse-to-patient ratios on the unit are typically 1:5 or 1:6.

We have a strong team on 3rd floor Johnston Health Smithfield, and continuously seek ways to improve our processes through our Nurse Council. Our “ONE GREAT TEAM” understands that “It Takes a Village.” Our ideal teammate will be able to work independently, while being committed to working together as a TEAM to provide the excellent care that our patients deserve.

• Assist physicians and other health care providers with routine examinations and procedures, as well as procurement of equipment and supplies during emergency situations.
• In the psychiatric setting, aids patients in reality orientation, participates in behavior modification plans/therapy, provides informal support therapy to patients/families, provides verbal de-escalation of potentially aggressive patients, aids in the physical management of aggressive/out-of-control patients, facilitates age appropriate play for children, and monitors the therapeutic milieu activities on assigned unit to ensure that emotional and safety needs of patients are met.
• Observes, collects, and documents patient information obtained while providing care and promptly report significant changes in the patient's condition to a registered nurse or physician.
• Provides assistance to patients and their families during admission to the clinical area, orientation to the hospital/clinic/home health experience, and discharge.
• Provides care/ treatments to patients as outlined in plan of care including, but not limited to, the measurement of vital signs, height and weight, specimen collection, skin preps/scrubs, catheter care, capillary blood glucose checks, simple wound care, range of motion exercises, postural drainage, and supportive 11 patient and family interactions.
• Provides direct personal care to patients as outlined in plan of care for routine activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, feeding and assisting with ambulation.
• Provides indirect care to patients and assigned area to include, but not limited to, cleaning the work area, changing linens, re-stocking supplies, cleaning/sterilizing instruments, transporting patients/ supplies/ specimens, assisting in the orientation of new employees and students, and some routine clerical functions.
• Reinforces routine teaching given to patients by the registered nurse or physician and document patient understanding of instructions. Distributes patient education materials at the request of patients and/or health care providers.

• None required as long as all other position requirements are met.

• Listed as Nursing Assistant I with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification