Thank you for your interest in joining our team! Please review the job information below.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The
requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable
accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job
description is not intended to be all-inclusive; employees will perform other reasonably related business duties as
assigned by the immediate supervisor and/or hospital administration as required.
• Maintains utmost level of confidentiality at all times.
• Adheres to hospital policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines.
• Clerical duties: respond to communication devices such as phone/vocera/call bells, able to complete basic
entries into the electronic medical record; records patient data in EMR, transcribes written orders
• Room/Patient care/Equipment management: stocks supplies, checks for expiration dates, orders supplies, cleans
equipment, cleans toys
• Infectious material exposure: transports blood borne pathogen or other patient specimens, picks up blood from
blood bank and delivers to the unit; sprays surgical instruments with enzymatic cleanser and prepares/transports
them for processing, packages or moves infectious waste containers for disposal; may provide in rooms support
for patients on airborne precautions
• Patient care support: measures, records and empties urine collection devices, empties bedpans/commodes,
reinforces established education material or room orientation with patients/families; transports patients off unit
for tests/procedures, discontinues Peripheral IV’s, obtains Point of Care specimens and urine, wound, stool throat and nasal specimens.
EDUCATIONAND/OREXPERIENCE:
—Graduate from a Nurse Aide School
CERTIFICATES, LICENSURE, REGISTRATION:
•Nurse Aide Certification
•American Heart Association Basic Life Support (CPR) continuously maintained. May on board with AHA or Red Cross CPR and then transition to AHA upon first renewal.
•Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NCI) or other DHS deemed relevant course equivalent within 6 months of hire and maintained continuously thereafter.
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