What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nurse Assistant I - Nursing Float Pool position at McLaren Health Care?
Under the supervision of a registered nurse, responsible for providing support to nursing staff and assisting in the delivery of patient care following patient care plan and hospital policies and procedures
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
Additional Information
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Provides routine patient care services such as call light response; ambulating, transferring, and positioning; personal hygiene assistance, prescribed bowel and bladder program assistance, etc.
- Collects, records, and reports various patient data. Reports changes in patient condition.
- Performs surgical skin preps, basic skin care procedures, bedside finger stick blood sugars, and quality control checks of blood glucose instruments.
- Performs general unit support activities such as postmortem care, cleaning of rooms and areas, running errands, making deliveries, responding to Code Blue pages, Code Red, etc.
- Performs other related responsibilities as necessary.
- High school graduate or equivalent required.
- Specialized education requirements, for those not meeting minimum six-month nursing assistance experience requirement, include:
- acute care nursing assistant course preferred for acute care positions or
- long term care nursing assistant course or
- completion of an emergency medical technician program or
- completion of medical assistant program or
- completion of a clinical rotation while participating an accredited nursing program.
- Direct patient care experience preferred. Prior nursing assistant experience of at least six months is required when the specialized education requirements identified above has not been met
- BLS certification as Healthcare Provider or equivalent through the Military Training Network (MTN).
Additional Information
- Schedule: Full-time
- Additional Locations: Michigan, Lansing
- Requisition ID: 26000954
- Daily Work Times: 7p-7a
- Hours Per Pay Period: 70
- On Call: No
- Weekends: Yes