Nurse Assistant - 604504 - NIGHTS
Company: Christus Health
Location: Alamogordo
Posted on: October 26, 2024
Job Description:
Description
- Assists with patient admissions, transfers and
discharge.
- Provides and documents ADL care to includes, passing water bed
baths, shower, and oral hygiene, changing bed linens both
unoccupied and occupied beds, cleaning overhead tables,
straightening room snacks and other general care as
needed.
- Provides and documents evening care to include: passing water
back rub if necessary, bed baths, shower, oral hygiene, changing
bed linens both unoccupied and occupied beds, cleaning overhead
tables, straightening room evening snacks and other general care as
needed.
- Provides general nursing care such as positioning, transfers to
chair or stretcher, lifting and turning patients, specialized
equipment, bedpan, commode chair and ambulating patients adhering
to best practice and under the scope of the registered nurse's
instruction.
- Answers call lights, anticipates patient needs, and provides
hourly rounding and bedside shift report with handoffs.
- Demonstrates the ability to perform procedures, ex; glucose
monitoring, within the Certified Nursing Assistant's scope of
practice.
- Reports complaints about pain immediately to licensed
personnel.
- Reports deviations of vital signs from normal as
appropriate.
- Observes patients mental and physical conditions, reports
change immediately to licensed personnel.
- Optimizes patient safety using equipment, clinical skills,
communication and
- Maintains Universal Precautions and follows policies and
procedures.
- Maintains and implements isolation precautions as directed or
per policies.
RequirementsEducationRequired: High SchoolLicenses &
CertificationsPreferred: C-CPI C-BLS C-Cert Nursing Asst
Keywords: Christus Health, Las Cruces , Nurse Assistant - 604504 - NIGHTS, Healthcare , Alamogordo, New Mexico
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