144 Nurse Assistant - ICU Jobs in Pontiac, MI
McLaren Health Care is Hiring a Nurse Assistant - ICU Near Pontiac, MI
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Always introduce self and explains care role
- Receives report from appropriate RN.Performs specific patient care interventions as delegated by the RN in effort to identify/attain treatment goals
- Assists in establishing and maintains a patient care environment that is clean, safe, and conducive to patient/family well-being
- Prepare patient room for arrival, assists in transfers and or discharge of patients
- Orients patient/family/visitors to patient room, unit, waiting area and facilities
- Assists patient/family in the use of facility equipment (telephone, lights, television)
- Makes occupied and unoccupied beds and collects and disposes of soiled linen
- Answers call lights and telephones.
- Exemplifies the highest levels of customer service standards when performing these tasks
- Performs safety checks and observes hospital safety guidelines, documents as required.
- Perform competency routine oxygen therapy, pulse oximetry.
- Follows and adheres to all policies and procedures including infection control (use of body substance isolation and use of personal protective equipment when in contact with body fluids and other isolation status as ordered).
- Assists patient with menu selection or assists patient care partner in doing so.
- Distributes nourishments and orders late trays.
- Assists patient and care partner with ADL’s including bathing, showering, toileting, feeding, positioning, turning, transferring, and ambulating.
- Records/calculates intake output observations, and care intervention in designated areas of the record or on appropriate forms.
- Performs all activities related to routine capillary blood glucose monitoring.
- Applies support/orthopedic devices such as TED hose and SCD’s.
- Participates in efforts to maintain and monitor patient safety through the appropriate application and use of safety devices and safety interventions as directedby the RN.
- Checks/restocks unit’s routine and emergency equipment/supplies
- Collects/sends/takes labeled specimens to the lab.
- May discontinue peripheral intravenous lines as directed by RN
- Obtains routine vital signs, temperature and documents in appropriate area or the EMR
- Assists the patient with coughing, deep breathing, use of incentive spirometer, suctions patient orally.
- Applies warm/cold therapies (heating pads, ice packs, and warm soaks) as directed by RN.
- Administers enemas and documents in the appropriate area of the EMR as designated by the RN.
- Places patients on monitors/telemetry and maintains lead placement as directed by RN.
- Assist in preparing the body following death.
- Seeks out Registered Nurse for additional assignments.
- Documents patient care rendered.
- Seeks ongoing learning experiences by attending appropriate in-services, continuing education and mandatory programs.
- Participates in quality management and process improvement activities and staff meetings as delegated the RN, Clinical Manager and/or unit Director.
- Performs other related job duties as requested.
- High School Diploma or GED
- Formal education or training in a medical careers program OR enrollment in nursing school OR two or more years’ experience in a Patient Care Associate/Nurse Assistant role
- BLS card from AHA required before start date (valid at least 60 days beyond start date)." BLS card from AHA required before start date (valid at least 60 days beyond start date)." BLS certification from American Heart Association (AHA), American Red Cross (ARC), or Canadian equivalent, is required before start date and valid at least 60 days beyond start date
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification
- One year prior work experience in a patient care environment
- Schedule: Full-time
- Requisition ID: 24003275
- Daily Work Times: 7:00pm-7:30am
- Hours Per Pay Period: 72
- On Call: No
- Weekends: Yes
Job Summary
Full Time
Ambulatory Healthcare Services
$31k-38k (estimate)
05/21/2024
06/16/2024
mclaren.org
DEWITT, MI
7,500 - 15,000
1914
$200M - $500M
Ambulatory Healthcare Services
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About McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $6 billion (budget FY21), fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 15 hospitals in Michigan and Ohio, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 490-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering approximately 640,000 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malp...ractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigans largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, one of only 51 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the U.S. As part of its Graduate Medical Education (GME) program, McLaren maintains academic affiliations with medical schools at Wayne State University, Michigan State University and Central Medical University. McLarens six (6) GME campuses offer 27 residencies and eight (8) fellowship programs that train over 650 future physicians annually. All GME programs at McLaren are overseen and managed centrally by the Department of Academic Affairs.
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