Nursing Assistant

3 weeks ago

Augusta, Maine, United States Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration Full time
Nursing Assistant Job Description

Join the Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration team as a Nursing Assistant in our Community Living Center (CLC) at the VA Maine Medical Center. This is a full-time position with 40 hours per week.

Responsibilities:
  • Assist higher graded NAs, licensed nursing staff, and other members of the care team in the care of patients/residents receiving outpatient care, home or community living care or other patients/residents who are in acute, sub-acute, or chronic states of illness.
  • Provide care under close supervision and refer issues/questions to supervisors or other healthcare professionals.
  • Perform duties such as bathing, personal hygiene, nutrition/feeding, elimination, intake and output, and assisting with all activities of daily living (ADL).
  • Initiate and assist with CPR per hospital policy.
  • Practice under the model of Patient Centered Care while exhibiting the ICARE values.
  • Maintain full patient confidentiality.
  • Participate in the admission, transfer and discharge of patients.
  • Prepare patient care rooms for admissions or transfers.
  • Assist with removing patient specific items from the room at discharge.
  • Perform active and passive range of motion exercises.
  • Support and assist patient with turning, moving, or transferring from bed to chair, commode etc.
  • Maintain competency and utilize lift equipment to practice safe patient handling.
  • Assist with postmortem care of the body after death and transport of the body to the morgue.
  • Perform assigned clinical procedures, such as application of External Urinary Device's (EUD) and colostomy bags, unsterile soaks and compresses, hot and cold applications, elastic hose, binders, bladder scanning, and oral suctioning.
  • Perform assigned technical procedures, such as blood glucose monitoring and quality controls, EKG's, taking and recording blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respiration, height, weight, incentive spirometer, collecting specimens, such as expectorated sputum, feces, urine-voided midstream and drainage collection bag.
  • Document vital signs, nursing care and belongings inventory list in the electronic medical record and on appropriate flow sheet.
  • Practice techniques and principles of medical asepsis and infection control, (e.g., hand hygiene), care of linen, transmission precautions, etc.
  • Must be aware of and actively practice principles of universal precautions.
  • Assist the physician or nurse with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
  • As directed provides assistance with transporting patients that are not critically ill independently from tests, procedures and appointments.
  • Provides care for behavioral ill or restrained patients, to include but not limited to, those who are: suicidal, homicidal, interfere with medical devices, confused, have poor judgment or require 1:1 monitoring.
  • Assignments may include restraint monitoring, safety monitoring and/or require physical checks every 15 minutes.
  • Performs duties required of video monitoring patients; including management of the call system and role of the rounding NA.
  • Observes patient receiving I.V. fluids and reports swelling, pain and or wetness at the needle site.
  • Observes patient and reports changes in appearance, including physical and emotional reactions.
  • Reports patient complaint of pain to RN/LPN.
  • Functions as a "Safety Monitor" for patients who need close observation.
  • Safety Monitor assignment includes providing care (baths, personal hygiene, feeding, elimination and intake and output) for patient and preventing patient from injury or interfering with the treatment by pulling out lines/IVs.
  • Maintains constant supervision.
Work Schedule:

May be scheduled to days, evening, nights, weekends, holidays, and off-tours to support facility needs.

Requirements:
  • Must be a U.S. Citizen.
  • All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
  • Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
  • Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
  • Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
  • You may be required to serve a probationary period.
  • Subject to background/security investigation.
  • Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
  • Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
  • Participation in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program is a requirement for all Veterans Health Administration Health Care Personnel (HCP) - See "Additional Information" below for details.

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