Nurse's Aide-Medical Surgical Float Pool-Mount Sinai Queens-Full Time-Evenings
4 months ago
Job Title: Nurse's Aide-Medical Surgical Float Pool-Mount Sinai Queens-Full Time-Evenings
Assists nursing personnel in provision of basic care for patients and necessary unit tasks and functions in compliance with The Nurse Connection policies, and procedures, applicable health care standards and New York State Department of Health.
Responsibilities
Patient Care
- Personal care functions including: Bathing (bed, tub, shower or sponge bath), Skin Care, Toileting (bedpan, urinal, commode and/or toilet), Grooming (shampoo, nailcare & shaving), Oral Hygiene (denture care), Assist with dressing and undressing
- Assists with feeding of patients.
- Measuring and recording intake and output.
- Weigh patients using upright, chair and bed scale.
- Assists in turning and positioning of patients.
- Proper transfer techniques.
- Demonstrates appropriate knowledge for safe use of medical equipment (cane, crutches, walkers, Hoyer Lift, side rails, brace, splints, oxygen).
- Helps keep patients rooms clean and supplied.
- Make and change beds (unoccupied and occupied).
- Transports patients, supplies and equipment as needed.
- Assists nurses and other personnel as needed.
- Ambulate patients who require minimal assistance.
- Simple, non-sterile dressings.
- Perform skin assessment and notify RN of any abnormalities in skin integrity.
- Applies heat or cold compresses as directed by a RN.
- Answer patients calls and takes appropriate action.
- Collects and labels specimens (urine, stool, sputum).
- Measures and records vital signs/weights and reports variations in vital signs to RN.
- Immediately reports any changes in clients condition or incidents to the Nursing Supervisor.
- Participates in case conferences with other members of the healthcare team as appropriate
- Maintains confidentiality in relation to all clients, healthcare staff and documentation.
- Meets annual inservice requirements in accordance with Agency policy and state regulations.
- Maintains and enhances skill through attending appropriate staff development training
- Appearance is professional and complies with agency dress code.
- Maintains a cooperative manner towards client/family and all members of the healthcare team.
- Candidate must have current and valid NYS Certification for Nursing Assistants.
- Six consecutive full time months of CNA experience post certification in long term care
- Name: Basic Life Saver (BCLS) Issuing Agency: AHA
SEIU Local 144 at Mount Sinai Queens, 217 - Nursing Per Diem - MSQ, Mount Sinai Queens
About Us
Strength Through Diversity
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
- Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
- Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
- Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
At Mount Sinai, our leaders strive to learn, empower others, and embrace change to further advance equity and improve the well-being of staff, patients, and the organization. We expect our leaders to embrace anti-racism, create a collaborative and respectful environment, and constructively disrupt the status quo to improve the system and enhance care for our patients. We work hard to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to advance professionally.
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"About the Mount Sinai Health System:
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals" ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's "The World's Best Smart Hospitals" ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism."
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