Nurse Extender Part Time

Iberia Medical Center (IMC) in New Iberia LA is looking for team members who will help advance our vision to be the premier hospital of choice for patients physicians and employees. Weve been caring for our community for over 60 years and offer many diverse career paths. Our new employees experience opportunities to learn and grow while caring for their families friends and neighbors.

JOB SUMMARY:

• Part Time or Relief position
• Provide basic patient care.
• Perform routine treatment procedures and assistin maintenance of a safe clean environment.
• Ensure adherence to Hospitals anddepartmental policies and procedures.
• Patient care assignment may includeneonate pediatric adolescent adult and geriatric age groups.

SUPERVISED BY: Medical Surgical Unit Manager

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Completion of basic nursing skills course at an accreditednursing program
• Competency checklist for each identified tasks.
• Student in good standing of a nationally accredited nursingprogram with completion of first semester of acute care clinical course.
• CPR Certification or must obtain within 30calendar days of date of position
  

PRINCIPLE TASKS DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform routine treatment procedures to include invasiveprocedures such as venipuncture for lab draws and IV initiation
• Assist nursing staff in complicated treatment procedures;perform routine treatment procedures
• Provide basic patient care; assist with ADLs to includebathing and assisting patient to the bathroom take and record vital signs toinclude temperature pulse respiration weight height blood pressure andintakeoutput measurements
• Collect label and transport specimens
• Transport equipment supplies charts and materials
• Make rounds handle patient requests report and record changesin condition or behavior of patients or unusual incidents within scope oftraining
• Make rounds and handle basic patient requests and perform basicpatient and family assistance tasks
• Clean patient care rooms equipment and instruments; reportequipment problems; order and store supplies; maintain appropriate PAR levels
• Assist and accompany patients in the admission transfer anddischarge process
• Prepare patients for meals and also assist patients as necessary
• Deliver and pickup meal trays pass the beverage cart and assistdesignated patients to chair with ambulation or to the bathroom
• Maintain a safe comfortable and therapeutic environment for patients/familiesin accordance with Hospitals standards
• Enhance professional growth and developmentthrough participation in educational programs reading current literatureattending inservices meetings and workshops
• Follow patient safetyrelated policies procedures andprotocols
• Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety byseeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of currentpolicies and processes
• Identify and report/correct environmental conditionsand/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk
• Report potential or actual patient safety concernsmedical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner
• Encourage patients to activelyparticipate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment orsituations that they dont understand or may not seem right