Nursing Student/tech - Farmington, United States - University of Connecticut

University of Connecticut

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Farmington, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

UConn Health is looking for current Bachelor of Nursing Student who wants to gain experience in acute healthcare. This position will work in the Operating Room.

SCHEDULE:
Schedule will vary and based on departmental needs.

EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING:

Current Junior or Senior BSN major
Must be available to work while school is in session and during breaks in Farmington, CT

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY:

Considerable interpersonal skills
Ability to work with basic principles of nursing including infection control practices
Ability to deal with physically and chronically ill
Ability to learn safety and fire procedures.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Assists doctors and nurses in general care and wellbeing of patients
Positions, transfers, moves and lifts patients
May feed, bathe and massage clients as well as respond to their general needs
Takes and records temperatures, pulses and respirations
Observes patients and reports unusual symptoms and/or behavior
Ensures that restraints are correctly applied
Tests urine samples for sugar; collects specimens
Keeps beds, bedpans and related equipment clean
Maintains unit environment for safety of patient
Transports patients, specimens and other related patient items
May order supplies and perform clerical duties
Performs related duties as required

WORKING CONDITIONS;- Incumbents in this class may be required to lift patients and perform other physically tiring work

May have some exposure to communicable and/or infectious diseases and strongly disagreeable conditions and to risk of injury from assaultive patients.

HOURLY RATE:
$16.00

WHY UCONN HEALTH

UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care.

A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961.

Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades.

In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.