- Maintains good communication with Nurse Manager, nursing staff, and other facility staff. Serves as a liaison between Charge Nurse, Nurse Manager, and Registered Nurses.
- Communicates and interacts appropriately and courteously with internal and external customers.
- Meet all charting requirements of the Medical Center in an accurate and timely manner.
- Functions as a NA on their assigned shift, notifies shift RN, LPN, and other NAs of changes in the nursing department, in patient conditions, in the environment of care and relays any problems to the charge nurse or Nurse Manager.
- Demonstrates interdepartmental teamwork.
- Maintains a working knowledge of all policies and procedures pertaining to the NA position.
- Participates in interviewing, orientation, training, and mentoring of new NA employees.
- Responsible for maintaining all annual TMS and skills competencies for NAs.
- Conducts peer reviews and monitors to ensure that services are being delivered to patients properly and as prescribed.
- Makes environmental and safety rounds, participates in Mental Health Environment of Care education and rounds, ensuring prompt actions are taken if any hazardous items are noted.
- Encourages, assist, and teaches Veterans to maintain a neat, clean, safe living area.
- Makes scheduled and continuous comfort and safety rounds to check on all Veterans.
- Performs other duties as assigned by the Nurse Manager, charge nurse, or Team RN.
- Participates in the admission of the patients by obtaining information, orienting patients to the unit and treatment team and checking patients and their belongings for hazardous items. Follows SOP in managing hazardous items and personal belongings. Safety is a number one priority.
- Checks vital signs, collects specimens and assists the professional nurse or physician with diagnostic testing. Escorts patients to lab, x-ray, or another unit.
- Encourages independence in patients by instructing, guiding, and assisting patients as needed in activities of daily living.
- Participates in interdisciplinary treatment planning by suggesting nursing actions, and reporting and documenting observations.
- Utilizes a variety of treatment approaches including individual, re-motivation and reality orientation on a one-to-one and group interaction level.
- Recognizes and reports behavioral changes, and changes in the patient's condition that may be related to medications or sensory distortions. Makes rounds every 15 minutes and documents rounding sheet.
- Encourages Veteran and family to actively participate in the individualized patient centered treatment plan.
- Demonstrates acceptable, healthy behavior as a role model for patient behavior.
- Promotes a sense of ego integrity, self-worth, and dignity by acknowledging patients' acceptable behavior.
- Encourages positive patient-family relationships.
- Uses proper body mechanics, appropriate lifts, wheelchair, stretchers, and scales as appropriate to lift, move or weigh Veterans
- Provides care for Veterans in alcohol and drug withdrawal
- Observe Veterans for medication side effects (i.e. tremors, drooling, drowsiness, etc.) and reports these to the RN Team Leader.
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Description
Summary
The Birmingham VA, Patient Care Service is seeking multiple full-time Nursing Assistants for the VA Medical Center in Birmingham Alabama.
This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT and will remain open until September 30, 2024. The initial cut-off date for referral of eligible applications will be January 22, 2024, with subsequent cut-off dates until the position is filled.
Duties
Nursing Assistant positions are located on the inpatient units, resource management, and in the escort department of the medical center, Incumbents in these position are responsible for the entire scope of patient care, to include direct patient care, patient admission, discharge, transfer, errand duties, and delivery of medical supplies/equipment when needed.
Duties include but may not be limited to:
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: FS 279
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
