Nursing AttendantTitle: Nursing Attendant
Location: Lenox Hill Hospital
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Our Nursing Attendant under the direction and supervision of the professional staff, performs direct and indirect patient activities and related patient care services necessary in caring for the needs and comforts of patients. Administers patient hygiene, ensures patient safety and comfort, assists professional staff with examinations, procedures, treatments and patient instruction and guidance. Maintains cleanliness and orderliness of patient care unit. Replenishes patient supplies as needed. Performs related duties as required.
Responsibilities Include:
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Performs and assists patients with activities of daily living: bathing, grooming/shaving, oral hygiene, skin care, perineal care, foot care, turning and positioning passive and active range of motion exercises, progressive ambulation with or without use of assistive devices, changing bed linens.
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Assists in achieving nutritional needs: Distributes water pitchers. prepares patients for meals and nourishment. assists with menu selection. serves and collects trays. feeds patients or assists as needed. encourages or restricts fluids. records and totals intake.
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Assists with elimination needs: Gives and removes bedpans and urinals. assists patients to commode or bathroom. routinely checks patients for incontinence. applies incontinence devises as instructed. records and totals outputs (urine, stool, drainage).
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Ensures patient comfort and safety: Promptly responds to call lights. conducts frequent patient rounds for observation. ensures beds are in appropriate position with wheels locked and that side rails remain in "up" position as indicated. ensures patient call bells and bedside articles are within patient reach. reports findings to professional staff. provides observation on a one-on-one basis when required
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Takes and records temperatures, pulses, respiration, heights, weights and abdominal girths.
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Assists with admissions, discharges, and transfers. Orients patients to unit environment. Escorts and transports patients as necessary.
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Adheres to infection control protocols including handwashing, maintaining a safe, clean patient environment and undertaking universal precautions and isolations precautions.
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Maintains cleanliness and orderliness of utility rooms, medication room, kitchen/kitchen cabinets, equipment and storage areas, and nursing areas. Routinely cleans and defrosts unit refrigerators.
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Administers therapy on unit including enemas, sitz baths, warm soaks, cold packs, ace bandages and antiembolic stockings. Applies and removes continuous passive motion (CPM) device and sequential compression device (SCD).
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Assists in emergency situations.
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Receives daily work assignments and verbal reports from professional staff during work shift.
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Cleans equipment. Reports malfunctioning equipment to appropriate personnel.
* High School Diploma required.
* Related attendant experience in an acute care facility preferred
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Certified Nurse Aid preferred.
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Electronic thermometers, bedscale, bed lift, hypothermia machine, specialized beds, telephone.
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Good verbal and written communications skills. Bilingual ability helpful, but not required. Ability to multi-task. Good interpersonal skills. Good organizational skills. Knowledge of medical terminology and technology.
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About once each hour or more often: Standing, walking, lifting more than 50 pounds, pulling, pushing, reaching, close vision, distance vision, distinguishing between shades of color, speaking, hearing, exposure to contagious or infectious diseases, work requires use of protective devices including masks, goggles, gloves and gowns, exposure to machinery with moving parts.
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At least once each day (not each hour): Sitting, kneeling, crouching, using tools that require a high degree of dexterity.
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