Nurse Assistant - Neuro

Position: Nurse Assistant I - 7W Neuro
Location: Michigan

Under the supervision of a registered nurse, responsible for providing support to nursing staff and assisting in the delivery of patient care following patient care plan and hospital policies and procedures

Essential Functions and Responsibilities :

* Provides routine patient care services such as call light response; ambulating, transferring, and positioning; personal hygiene assistance, prescribed bowel and bladder program assistance, etc.

* Collects, records, and reports various patient data. Reports changes in patient condition.

* Performs surgical skin preps, basic skin care procedures, bedside finger stick blood sugars, and quality control checks of blood glucose instruments.

* Performs general unit support activities such as postmortem care, cleaning of rooms and areas, running errands, making deliveries, responding to Code Blue pages, Code Red, etc.

* Performs other related responsibilities as necessary.

Required:

* High school graduate or equivalent required.

* Specialized education requirements, for those not meeting minimum six-month nursing assistance experience requirement, include:

* acute care nursing assistant course preferred for acute care positions or

* long term care nursing assistant course or

* completion of an emergency medical technician program or

* completion of medical assistant program or

* completion of a clinical rotation while participating an accredited nursing program.

* Direct patient care experience preferred. Prior nursing assistant experience of at least six months is required when the specialized education requirements identified above has not been met

* BLS certification as Healthcare Provider or equivalent through the Military Training Network (MTN).

Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans.

Additional Information

* Schedule:

Full-time

* Additional Locations:
Michigan, Lansing

* Requisition :

* Daily Work Times: 7a-7p

* Hours Per Pay Period: 72

* On Call:
No

* Weekends:
Yes