Nursing Assistant - Medical Surgical​/Outpatient​/Cardiac Recovery

Description

This position qualifies for our UNC Health Johnston Incentive Program, please ask your recruiter for more information.

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UNC Health Johnston 2nd Brightleaf/Cardiac Recovery Department includes 18 inpatient and observation beds, 6 outpatient rooms and 11 Cardiac Recovery rooms. In our inpatient/observation rooms, we provide acute routine level of care to patients with cardiac diseases, respiratory diseases, and other diagnoses. In our outpatient rooms, patients come for blood transfusions, IV antibiotics, wound dressing changes, IV fluids, etc. 2nd Brightleaf is a unique department that works together with our Cardiac Recovery department.

We cross‑train our team to work in all areas. Our Cardiac Recovery department delivers high quality care to our post left and right heart cath patients, arteriograms, pacemakers, carotid stenting, and many other cardiovascular procedures. Our 2nd Brightleaf department is the Stroke and Chest Pain Unit for our organization. UNC Johnston is a Stroke, Chest Pain, and STEMI accredited facility by Joint Commission.

Our 2nd Brightleaf/Cardiac Recovery team consists of Registered Nurses and Patient Care Assistants that are committed to provide excellent, compassionate, and innovative care for our growing community.

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.

• 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 reports 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 and 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 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 documents 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.

• Prefer six (6) months of nursing assistant experience.

• Fluent…