- Full Time
- Part Time
- Intermittent/PRN
- Providing patient centered care for residents/patients
- Providing activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding dependent patients/residents diets as ordered by the provider or assisting patients with meals including dysphasia patients/residents.
- Ambulating patients/residents including the use of assistive devices; turning and positioning patients/residents that are in the bed to help prevent skin breakdowns; skin inspections of all areas prone to skin breakdown
- Completing hourly rounds on patients to assist with needs such as comfort, reporting pain to the RN, toileting, and assisting with getting out of bed, or turning/positioning, and preventing falls
- Providing patients' personal hygiene by assisting with bathing/showering, shampooing, shaving, dressing and toileting
- Utilizing safe patient handling equipment for proper repositioning and/or transferring of the veterans.
- Participating in safety huddle and bedside rounds.
- Taking/documenting vital signs, blood sugar checks, weights, Intake and Output and reporting abnormal values immediately to covering nurse.
Nursing Assistant - Cleveland, United States - Department Of Veterans Affairs
Description
Summary
This is an open continuous announcement. We accept applications on an ongoing basis; qualified applicants will be considered as vacancies become available. This announcement covers vacancies in multiple units/clinics within the Northeast Ohio VA Health Care System.
Work Schedule: Variable shift (rotating all 3 tours), days/evening AND nights, rotating weekends and holidays.
Duties
This is an open continuous announcement. We accept applications on an ongoing basis; qualified applicants will be considered as vacancies become available. This announcement covers vacancies in multiple units/clinics within the Northeast Ohio VA Health Care System, to include: Medical and Surgical Intensive Care, Emergency Department; Step Down or Progressive Care; Telemetry; General Medicine & Surgical (Med-Surg); Operating Room; Pre & Post-Operative Care; Community Living Center, Hospice, and Short-term Rehab; Spinal Cord Injury Unit; Inpatient Psychiatry (Geriatric or Acute); Outpatient Mental Health; Continuous Veno-Venous Hemodialysis; Primary Care Clinics; Geriatric Extended Care Units; Community Care; Float Pool, Infusion Clinic, and other Specialty Areas. Please note, this announcement does not cover our Community Based Outpatient Clinics.
The incumbent will provide prescribed medical treatment and personal care services to ill and injured veterans.
Duties include:
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
This is an open continuous announcement. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis and qualified candidates will be considered as vacancies become available.