Nursing Assistant/Ward Clerk

Position Summary

Responsible to coordinate activities at the Nurses Station, including receptionist, general clerical and information management duties with computer skills. Provide direct patient care, both medical and non-medical. Cares are directed and supervised by the RN or LPN. Assures the maintenance of a safe and clean environment.

Excellence in Practice

• Time management: completes assignments and assists others willingly; answers call lights; greets and directs patients, visitors and hospital personnel in a friendly and courteous manner, assists in room preparation, admissions and discharges.
• Assists patients with activities and meal time set up, ambulation, transfers, positioning, and dressing. Attends to physical and emotional needs.
• Computer skills: able to admit patients with knowledge about inpatient/outpatient status, obtain charts, able to use order entry for physician orders, specimen collections, equipment repairs and dietary needs.
• Performs duties independently with little or no supervision.
• Good technical skills: vital signs, specimen collection, weights, isolation, hot/cold packs; cooperates in unit cleaning, maintenance, restocking, diet kitchen, utility room, patient rooms and equipment; had good knowledge of phone system, pager system, alarms and proper response to each.
• Able to prioritize and multitask – separate emergency orders and request for regular work flow. Adapts to changes in workload while remaining calm and reassuring. Takes direction from medical professionals, follows stat orders.
• Treats patients with dignity and respect providing for privacy in all cares.
• Completes assignments, good time managements. Assists others willingly. Answers call lights promptly. Makes hourly rounds.
• Assists patients with activities of daily living: meal time set up and feeding, toileting, ambulation, transfers, positioning, dressing, AM & PM cares – bathing, oral hygiene, shave, skin and nail care. Attends to physical, spiritual and emotional needs.
• Accurately documents care provided: Activity, Meals, I & O, Vital Signs, Weights, Swing Bed activities and ADL assessments.
• Assist with admissions and discharges – room preparation.
• Cooperates with unit cleaning, maintenance and restocking: Diet kitchen, utility room, report room, patient rooms, supply room, med carts, IV trays, equipment, etc.