- Personal patient care including bathing, feeding, grooming, and mobilizing with demonstration of skills which reflect the needs of the older adult.
- Appropriate support duties i.e., individualized patient care, proper implementation of policies and procedures, use of good body mechanics, and assist in application and operation of specialized functional equipment.
- Support duties for proper environmental maintenance such as identification of potential safety hazards.
- Support duties for treatment services such as specimen collection.
- Nursing Assistant functions under the delegation of the Registered Nurse.
- Treatment duties such as colostomy irrigation, assistance with bowel routine, replacement of gastrostomy tubes, suctioning of tracheotomies, positioning for postural drainage, and sterile dressing changes on simple wounds
- Full-time, part-time, & Intermittent on all shifts
- Recruitment or Relocation Incentives have been approved for the full-time and part-time vacancies, up to $10,000.
Nursing Assistant - Milwaukee, United States - Department Of Veterans Affairs
Description
Summary
OUR MISSION: To fulfill President Lincoln's promise "To care for those who have served in our nation's military and for their families, caregivers, and survivors" - by serving and honoring the men and women who are America's Veterans. How would you like to become a part of a team providing compassionate whole health care to Veterans?
Recruitment or Relocation Incentives have been approved for the full-time and part-time vacancies, up to $10,000.
Duties
7C is a 30-bed acute inpatient unit providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach in the care of medical and surgical patients. Post-operative surgical patients comprise approximately 50% of the unit population and can come from specialties such as: General Surgery, Orthopedics, Vascular, GI, GU, Neuro, and more.
Effective communication, teamwork, and multidisciplinary care is essential to provide high level care and produce effective outcomes within this patient population.
Major duties: