Category:

Nursing Unlicensed

City:

Tennessee

State:

Tennessee

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

Under the general supervision of the Director, Clinical Manager, and Charge Nurse. Responsible for providing hygienic care and assigned procedures for assigned patients based on age-specific needs.

ResponsibilitiesAnswers call lights.Obtains and records patient Vital Signs per unit specification.Assists with new admissions by taking vital signs, obtains weights, and puts gown on patient, places telemetry patches, leads and telemetry box on patients as required.Obtains daily weights on assigned patients.Performs baths, linen changes, shampoos, shaves, mouth care.Performs bedside blood glucose testing and maintains annual competence.Responsible for repositioning patients every two hours, whether it is turns or encouraging patients to turn themselves.Ambulates patients in the hall as needed.Assists patients with meals by getting patients up to chair before if appropriate, offers hygiene, and prepares area for eating.Passes food trays and feeds patients who cannot feed themselves.Collects and accurately records (oral) intake and output.Assembles patient’s charts, records patient information on unit records and routes patient’s charges.Answers telephone and appropriate pages and relays information to appropriate team member and notifies physician of consults and schedules appointments for office visits.Performs responsibilities as related to the safe disposal of hazardous pharmaceutical waste.Sets up rooms for new admissions by providing pitcher, ice, bath pan, cups and straws.Keeps rooms tidy and free of clutter.Removes dirty equipment from discharged rooms.Ensures patients have ice, and rooms have gloves.Assists with transport a patientsHelps keep department tidy by putting up stock, and clean rooms such as break room, microwave, refrigerator, med room, dirty room, linen room and equipment room.Assists with incentive spirometers.Responsible for documenting: baths, turns, Oral Intake and Output obtained from Foley catheter, urinal or collection vessel. (hat), shaves, mouth care, peri and or Foley care, Vital Signs, linen changes, shampoos,, weights, percentage of meals consumed on all of their assigned patients, ambulation, incentive spirometer usage, bowel movements, and number of times patients were up in a chair.Responds to patient emergencies (CPR) in order to be available to collect specimens as needed.Qualifications

EDUCATION: On or after June 1, 2013, High School diploma or equivalent required. If an employee has less than the foregoing level of education and employed in good standing in this position prior to this date no further education is required to maintain employment.  

LICENSURE, REGISTRATION, CERTIFICATION: BLS certification must be obtained within the orientation period, and certification must be kept current while in this position.  

EXPERIENCE: Preferred but may be trained by qualified personnel on the unit.

NONDISCRIMINATION NOTICE STATEMENT

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, disability, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, sexual orientation, age, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.