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Job Description
Overview
Certified Nursing Assistant NonCertified Nursing Assistant Flex Pool
Full Time 72 Hours Per Pay Period Day Shift
With more than 30 specialties from Cardiology and Neurosurgery to Orthopedics and Vascular care Methodist Medical Center was one of the first hospitals in East Tennessee to offer cuttingedge treatments and technologies that benefit people with lifethreatening aneurysms severely damaged knee hip and shoulder joints sudden heart failure and nonhealing wounds.
- 283 licensed beds
- 25 ICU beds
- 12 intermediate care beds
- 38 emergency suites
- 2 cath labs
- 8 LDRP suites
- Over 250 active and courtesy physicians
- Over 800 employees
Job Objectives:
Under the direction of a Registered Nurse assist nursing care team members with the delivery and accomplishment of patient/care services. Will float to all hospital units.
Responsibilities
- Takes and records patients vital signs.
- Promptly completes personal care of patients.
- Delivers meal trays to patients.
- Assists patients with ambulation.
- Assists with lifting moving transporting and discharging patients.
- Promptly responds to patient calls.
- Serves as messenger to obtain/deliver necessary supplies/equipment/specimens.
- Observes and reports any significant changes in patients condition to nursing staff.
- Helps maintain clean and orderly patient and work area environments.
- Restocks patient and unit supplies.
- NONESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Other duties as assigned.
- HEALTH/SAFETY/COMPETENCE: Cannot pose a direct threat to health or safety of self or others. Must provide safe efficient competent care to customer or patient population assigned. Must demonstrate competency of the unit specific functions described in the performance continuum skills lists and/or standards.
- Removes medications from the delivery system and promptly gives to the appropriate nursing staff.
Qualifications
Education/Knowledge/Skills:
Must have a high school diploma or an equivalent certificate (GED). Must have successfully completed a hospitalapproved formal training program or equivalent. Must be able to read with comprehension write legibly and perform basic arithmetic computations. Must have understanding and knowledge of patient care which may be appropriately delegated to nursing assistants. Must exhibit basic knowledge of setting up and maintaining traction. For staff involved in the care of agespecific groups knowledge of the biopsychosocial needs of adult geriatric and pediatric patients is essential. Special knowledge is required in growth and development needs of pediatric/geriatric patients where applicable.
Experience:
Must have work experience as a nursing assistant or must have completed at least one semester of clinical and class work in an approved nursing program. One year experience required.
Licensure/Certifications:
Must be certified and registered with the State of Tennessee Division of Health Care Facilities as a Nurse Aide upon initial placement into a CNA position. Must be currently certified and registered as above when placed into a CNA position after working in a nonCNA position for more than one 1 year. Must be currently certified (or scheduled for certification or recertification training according to department guidelines) in CPR/Provider C.
Employment Type
Full-Time
