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Intermediate Nursing Aide
Westchester Medical Center Health Network
Valhalla, KSA
Full Time
Entry
Onsite
3 weeks ago
Patient CareVital Signs MonitoringSpecimen CollectionEMR DocumentationInfection ControlPatient Safety
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About the Role
Westchester Medical Center Health Network is seeking an Intermediate Nursing Aide to provide direct patient care under supervision of a Registered Professional Nurse. The role involves assisting with patient comfort, safety, nutrition, hygiene, and vital signs monitoring.
Key Skills for This Role
Patient CareVital Signs MonitoringSpecimen CollectionEMR DocumentationInfection ControlPatient Safety
Responsibilities
- Provide direct patient care as described in individualized care plans and directed by a Registered Professional Nurse
- Observe, record, and report general condition of patient
- Identify significant changes in patient's clinical status and communicate to treatment team
- Perform non sterile dressing changes as directed
- Meet patient need for comfort and safety by providing orientation and orienting stimuli
- Assist with patient's nutritional and hydration needs
- Assist in patient admission and discharge
- Obtain vital signs and weights, collect specimens and finger sticks, record in EMR
- Maintain intake/output documentation
- Assist patients with meals, sleeping, hygiene needs, and activities of daily living
- Assist with turning patients every 2 hours
- Transport patients to and from tests, procedures, or therapeutic activities
Requirements
- Certification as a Nurse Aide or Home Health Aide by NYS Department of Health, or completion of an approved Nurse Aide course, or completion of Medical Surgical Nursing I and II from an accredited LPN/RN school, or one year of patient care experience
- BLS or CPR certification by AHA or ARC must be obtained within 90 days of employment
- Good knowledge of accepted standards of caring for the sick, disabled, injured
- Ability to prioritize patient care using time and resources efficiently
- Ability to maintain interpersonal relationships with patients, co workers, and healthcare team
- Ability to follow oral and written instructions and communicate patient information
- Computer literacy sufficient to perform duties
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Distinguishing Features of the Class
- Under the supervision of a Registered Professional Nurse, an Intermediate Nursing Aide provides direct patient care to an assigned group of patients.
- Prepares patients for treatment and procedures, and assists in the general care of patients.
- This position differs from Patient Care Technician in that duties do not include specialized unit competencies.
Examples of Work
- Provides care for assigned group of patients as described in individualized care plans and directed by a Registered Professional Nurse.
- Provides end of shift, face to face hand off to incoming nursing aide.
- Reports to supervising nurse when duties are not able to be completed on the shift.
- Observes, records and reports general condition of patient.
- Identifies significant changes in patient's clinical status and communicates to appropriate member(s) of the treatment team.
- Performs non sterile dressing changes, as directed by a Registered Professional Nurse.
- Meets patient need for comfort and safety by providing orientation, including maintaining time appropriate lighting, providing orienting stimuli such as clock, TV, and newspaper, and providing eyeglasses and hearing aids, as needed.
- Assists with patient's nutritional and hydration needs, including setting up meal trays, feeding patient, filling out menu, providing supplemental nutrition as ordered by medical staff.
- Assists in patient admission by making sure the room is ready, welcoming patient to unit, and assisting with transfer and settling of patient into their room.
- Assists in patient discharge by assisting patient with gathering their belongings and removing any medical equipment at the direction of the supervising nurse.
- Obtains vital signs and weights, collects specimens and finger sticks, records all results in the EMR and immediately notifies the nurse of abnormal results.
- Maintains intake/output documentation, including emptying of urinal/foley, colostomy/ostomy, suction canisters, and meal/fluid intake.
Minimum Acceptable Training and Experience
- Either: (a) certification as a Nurse Aide or Home Health Aide by the New York State Department of Health; (b) completion of an approved Nurse Aide or related patient care course; (c) completion of Medical Surgical Nursing I and II or equivalent from an accredited Licensed Practical or Registered Nur
- BLS or CPR certification by the American Heart Association or American Red Cross must be obtained within 90 days of employment and maintained throughout subsequent employment in this title.
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