Title: Nursing Assistant- PCU

Responsibilities:

• The PCU is a 36-bed unit for telemetry, step down, or intermediate level of care.
• Patients requiring peritoneal and hemodialysis, cardiac catheterizations, pacemakers, internal cardiac defibrillator placement, post-operative monitoring, and interventional radiology may be placed on PCU.
• Our patients receive continuous cardiac monitoring, and some may also receive continuous oxygen saturation monitoring.
• Patient can be on high flow oxygen, Bi-pap ventilation, and continuous cardiac Intravenous medications.
• The nurse patient ratio is less than on the med/surg floors, allowing patients to be more closely monitored.
• Assists or performs Activities of Daily Living (i.e. bathing, toileting, eating, dressing, grooming, etc.) for the patients/residents of the facility as well as changes bed linen and assists with transferring residents from bed to chair, chair to bed and turning and repositioning of the patient/resident while in bed.

Requirements:

• AHA BLS required
• Experience working as Nursing Assistant in PCU

Education:

• Degree from an accredited school of nursing