Student Nurse Assistant

Job description

• Purpose of Job
  • Helps patients by supporting personal hygiene and daily living needs; providing comfort, transportation, and vital sign monitoring.
• Job Requirements
  • Education
    • High School diploma or General Educational Development (GED) preferred.
  • Experience
    • Previous work experience preferred.
  • License/Certifications
  • Skills/Knowledge/Abilities
    • Skill using computers.
    • Skill organizing and prioritizing work.
    • Skill with verbal and written communication.
    • Ability to perform mathematical calculations.
    • Ability to adhere to all workplace and safety requirements, regulations, standards, and practices.
• Physical Requirements
  • Weight Demands
    • Medium Work - Exerting up to 50 pounds of force.
  • Physical Activity
    • Occasionally Performed (1%-33%):
      • Climbing
      • Crawling
      • Kneeling
      • Sitting
    • Frequently Performed (34%-66%):
      • Balancing
      • Carrying
      • Crouching
      • Distinguish colors
      • Keyboarding/typing
      • Lifting
      • Pulling/Pushing
      • Repetitive Motions
      • Stooping/bending
      • Twisting
    • Constantly Performed (67%-100%):
      • Fingering/Touching
      • Grasping
      • Hearing
      • Reaching
      • Seeing/Visual
      • Speaking/talking
      • Standing
      • Walking
  • Job Hazards
    • Not Related: - Electrical Shock/Static
    • Rare (1-33%):
      • Radiation Alpha, Beta and Gamma (particles such as X-ray, Cat Scan, Gamma Knife, etc)
      • Radiation Non-Ionizing (Ultraviolet, visible light, infrared and microwaves that causes injuries to tissue or thermal or photochemical means)
    • Occasionally (34%-66%):
      • Physical hazards (noise, temperature, lighting, wet floors, outdoors, sharps) (more than ordinary office environment)
      • Equipment/Machinery/Tools
      • Explosives (pressurized gas)
      • Hazardous Drugs (exposure risks, personal protective equipment required)
    • Frequent (67%-100%):
      • Chemical agents (Toxic, Corrosive, Flammable, Latex)
      • Biological agents (primary air born and blood born viruses) (Jobs with Patient contact) (BBF)
      • Mechanical moving parts/vibrations
• Essential Job Functions
  • Essential Functions I
    • Provides appropriate care specific to the age of the customer/patient, to ensure understanding and comfort level of treatment, as outlined in the Age Specific Criteria.
      • Gives individualized customer service/patient care.
      • Completes age specific competency assessment.
      • Participates in Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP).
    • Exhibits excellent interpersonal relations with patients, co-workers, physicians, and guests to ensure effective communications.
      • Responds to patient needs promptly and courteously.
      • Obtains feedback from patients and visitors regarding their hospital experience.
      • Communicates patient issues to the appropriate staff.
      • Maintains a positive attitude while responding to requests in a timely and accurate manner.
      • Communicates with other members of the health care team (food service, secretaries, housekeeping, etc.) as indicated.
      • Actively participates in report process.
    • Completes clinical activities identified in the patient's plan of care to meet patients' comfort/activity/sleep needs and other clinical patient needs as delegated by professional staff.
      • Reports patient comfort needs to nurse in a timely manner.
      • Ensures that skin is clean and dry.
      • Reports any noticed skin changes.
      • With oversight and/or direction provides personal care and assists with ADL (activities of daily living).
      • With oversight and/or direction provides assistance with repositioning, turning and chair transfers.
      • With oversight and/or direction assists as necessary with ambulation.
      • With oversight and/or direction completes vital signs per patient's plan of care.
      • With oversight and/or direction weighs patients per patient's plan of care.
      • With oversight and/or direction reinforces patient education.
      • Provides transportation assistance.
      • Reports any variation from patient's plan of care to professional staff.
      • Attends to patient amenities; e.g., newspaper, mail.
    • Documents all data collected, in Cerner and/or on worksheets, accurately, completely, and in a timely manner to provide an accurate record of patient activities and response to activities.
      • Documentation is completed in an ongoing basis prior to end of shift.
      • Documentation reflects patient's responses to activities according to patient's plan of care.
      • Documentation reflects care delivered.
    • Provides activities to contribute to a safe, efficient, effective and sanitary patient care environment.
      • Completes daily room cleaning according to established procedures for high dusting, vacuuming, mopping hard surface floors, disinfecting vertical surfaces, and spot cleaning vertical surfaces.
      • Keep rooms neat and tidy, free of clutter.
      • Removes trash and soiled linen from room each shift and as needed.
      • Maintains patient environment, such as spills and room temperature, or actively utilizes Integrated Services team to do so properly.
      • Distributes linens to servitors' per par levels.
      • Straightens and restocks patient care areas per par levels.
      • Attends to patient amenities; e.g., newspapers, mail, watering plants.
    • Consistently recognizes and utilizes measures to provide for safe, efficient, patient care and work environment.
      • Answers Call Lights in a timely manner and response to the patient request and/or relays request to appropriate resource when necessary.
      • Performs other duties as delegated/under the direction of the professional staff.
      • Ensures coverage of all duties when self or other staff are off the nursing unit.
      • Assists other team members when own work is complete.
      • Appropriately reports incidents.
      • Utilizes Standard Precautions and Transmission-based Precautions infection control techniques correctly and consistently.
    • Directly responsible to the licensed nurse and assists in the care of the patient by performing activities delegated by the license nurse based on task, circumstance, person, communication and supervision.
  • Essential Functions II
    • Participates in mandatory in-services and/or CE programs as mandated by policies and procedures/external agencies and as directed by management.
    • Follows and understands the mission, vision, core values, Employee Standards of Compassionate Care/AIDET and company policies/procedures.
    • Other duties as assigned.