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    Nursing Attendant-Nursing Float Pool - New York, NY, United States - Mount Sinai Hospital

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    Job Description

    The Nursing Attendant is an individual who functions in a support role to the Registered Professional Nurse by providing direct patient care and related activities as assigned.

    Responsibilities

    1. Assists the nursing staff in performing selected nursing procedures, treatments, and functional tasks to specific patients including vital signs: Temperature, Pulse, Respirations, Blood Pressure and Pain Rating.
    2. Performs procedures associated with activities of daily living, ambulation, mobility, and personal hygiene of the patient.
    3. Observes, reports, and records routine and specific patient data, behaviors and responses to treatment on the appropriate flow sheet/EMR.
    4. Reports pertinent information and observations regarding patients to the registered nurse
    5. Performs procedures related to assuring a safe environment for patients, staff and others.
    6. Performs procedures associated with the admission, transfer and discharge of patients.
    7. Performs procedures associated with the maintenance of food and fluid intake.
    8. Performs procedures associated with excretion of body waste and or loss of fluid.
    9. Provides for safe and comfortable lifting, positioning and ambulation of patients in accordance with the principles of good body mechanics. Utilizes mechanical devises as necessary
    10. Performs simple applications of heat and cold.
    11. Provides care to the body of deceased patients in preparation for removal to the morgue. Provides support to the family/significant others. Secures property.
    12. Obtains, assembles and maintains equipment for use during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
    13. Assists members of the health care team with physical exam and other procedures.
    14. Conducts purposeful hourly rounding for assigned patients noting: Pain, Position, Proactive Toileting and Possessions
    15. Participates in the patient belonging process, including reporting of valuables to the RN and documenting accordingly.
    16. Transports patients by wheelchair, stretcher or bed, and escorts ambulatory patients.
    17. Performs errands away from the area of assignment to implement the care of patients
    18. Including transporting stat specimens and/or obtaining supplies as necessary.
    19. Maintains a clean uncluttered and tidy environment.
    20. Maintains equipment and cleans as necessary. Stocks supplies.
    21. Works in a safe manner and provides for the safety of patients and other employees.
    22. Utilizes aggression control measures in the care of patients who are verbally or physically threatening.
    23. Assists the RN with the application of restraints as required.
    24. Performs patient observations for Safety, constant/One to One and/or every 20 minutes checks of assigned observation status.
    25. Communicates information and basic instructions to patients, families, and visitors
    26. Supports the mission, vision, philosophy and goals of the Department of Nursing and The
    27. Mount Sinai Health System.
    28. Attends ongoing staff development as assigned to maintain appropriate knowledge base and skills and to meet regulatory requirements.
    29. Attends unit staff and educational meetings.
    30. Demonstrates a humanistic, kind and caring attitude.
    31. Adheres to dress code in accordance with departmental policy.
    32. Maintains attendance and punctuality record in accordance with departmental standards.
    33. Demonstrates knowledge of Hospital and Departmental policy, procedure, and guidelines.
    34. Demonstrates knowledge of the Patient Bill of Rights and confidentiality.
    35. Is open and responsive to the diverse backgrounds and experience of other people and promotes an environment that is sensitive to cultural diversity.
    36. Respects and values each patient's unique, individual needs, beliefs, and diversity and incorporates these into delivery of care.
    37. Assumes other responsibilities/duties as assigned.
    Qualifications
    • High School Diploma or equivalent.
    • Completed training as a medical assistant or nursing assistant or equivalent training or experience.
    • Prefer relevant experience in an inpatient health care setting
    • American Heart Association Heartsaver Certification required; BCLS is accepted.
    Collective bargaining unit: SEIU 1199-MSW

    About Us

    Strength Through Diversity

    The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai's unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
    • Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
    • Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
    • Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
    We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

    Explore more about this opportunity and how you can help us write a new chapter in our history

    "About the Mount Sinai Health System:

    Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, more than 400 outpatient practices, more than 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time - discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it. Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients' medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,400 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Children's Hospitals" ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country's best in several pediatric specialties. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is ranked No. 14 nationwide in National Institutes of Health funding and in the 99th percentile in research dollars per investigator according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Newsweek's "The World's Best Smart Hospitals" ranks The Mount Sinai Hospital as No. 1 in New York and in the top five globally, and Mount Sinai Morningside in the top 20 globally.

    The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are passionately committed to addressing racism and its effects on our faculty, staff, students, trainees, patients, visitors, and the communities we serve. Our goal is for Mount Sinai to become an anti-racist health care and learning institution that intentionally addresses structural racism."

    EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

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