Cleveland Clinic
Job Description
Join to apply for the Nursing Department Assistant role at Cleveland Clinic. Provides for patients' daily living activities; maintains a safe and clean environment, maintains supplies, and ensures equipment function. Transports patients and completes errands. With direction from RN assists in direct patient care tasks (i.e., performs EKGs, blood glucose monitoring, specimen collection, dressing changes, colostomy care, and documentation of vital signs).
Responsibilities
Assist with a wide variety of patient care tasks and collaborate with members of the health care team to promote the delivery of patient care.
Organize patient care assignments to ensure timely delivery and completion of care on assigned patients.
Seek assistance as necessary for difficult assignments or problem solving.
Document the care provided in patient records.
Label specimens properly.
Ask patients about pain and report to the RN/LPN as needed.
Utilize pain scale.
Maintain orderliness and cleanliness of unit including patient/unit equipment.
Keep patient areas neat and uncluttered and prepare rooms for patient admissions.
Cleans and maintains patient/unit equipment (i.e., over‑bed tables, bed pans, bedside commodes).
Report any problems (i.e., equipment, supplies and maintenance problems) immediately to the RN.
Make hourly patient rounds (based on patient condition) to assure that safety measures are in place (i.e., side rails up as needed; beds in low, locked position; phone and call lights within the patients' reach; and restraints applied appropriately).
Ensure that all bed alarms are activated during hourly rounds. Utilize personal protective equipment and universal comfort to assist the patient toward independent living.
Other duties as assigned.
Education
High School Diploma or GED required.
Requires basic math skills and ability to read and write.
Certifications
State Tested Nursing Assistant (STNA) certification preferred.
Successful completion of Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) required within new hire period.
Complexity of Work
Demonstrates empathy and interacts with patients, visitors, and all personnel in a courteous, helpful manner; able to resolve conflict constructively and maintain confidentiality regarding patients, families, and co‑workers; demonstrates respect for individual cultural and social differences.
Requires ability to work with minimal supervision.
Work Experience
Previous nursing assistant experience preferred.
Physical Requirements
Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity, and eye‑hand coordination.
Requires frequent standing, walking, kneeling, reaching, squatting, bending/stooping and lifting patients.
Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.
Requires working under stressful conditions and irregular hours.
Exposure to communicable diseases and/or body fluids.
Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.
Personal Protective Equipment
Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
Pay Range Salaries (which may be represented on independent job search websites) reflect various market averages and do not represent information obtained directly from The Cleveland Clinic. Because we value each individual candidate, we invite and encourage each candidate to discuss salary/hourly specifics during the application and hiring process.
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Responsibilities
Assist with a wide variety of patient care tasks and collaborate with members of the health care team to promote the delivery of patient care.
Organize patient care assignments to ensure timely delivery and completion of care on assigned patients.
Seek assistance as necessary for difficult assignments or problem solving.
Document the care provided in patient records.
Label specimens properly.
Ask patients about pain and report to the RN/LPN as needed.
Utilize pain scale.
Maintain orderliness and cleanliness of unit including patient/unit equipment.
Keep patient areas neat and uncluttered and prepare rooms for patient admissions.
Cleans and maintains patient/unit equipment (i.e., over‑bed tables, bed pans, bedside commodes).
Report any problems (i.e., equipment, supplies and maintenance problems) immediately to the RN.
Make hourly patient rounds (based on patient condition) to assure that safety measures are in place (i.e., side rails up as needed; beds in low, locked position; phone and call lights within the patients' reach; and restraints applied appropriately).
Ensure that all bed alarms are activated during hourly rounds. Utilize personal protective equipment and universal comfort to assist the patient toward independent living.
Other duties as assigned.
Education
High School Diploma or GED required.
Requires basic math skills and ability to read and write.
Certifications
State Tested Nursing Assistant (STNA) certification preferred.
Successful completion of Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) required within new hire period.
Complexity of Work
Demonstrates empathy and interacts with patients, visitors, and all personnel in a courteous, helpful manner; able to resolve conflict constructively and maintain confidentiality regarding patients, families, and co‑workers; demonstrates respect for individual cultural and social differences.
Requires ability to work with minimal supervision.
Work Experience
Previous nursing assistant experience preferred.
Physical Requirements
Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patients, manual and finger dexterity, and eye‑hand coordination.
Requires frequent standing, walking, kneeling, reaching, squatting, bending/stooping and lifting patients.
Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.
Requires working under stressful conditions and irregular hours.
Exposure to communicable diseases and/or body fluids.
Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.
Personal Protective Equipment
Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
Pay Range Salaries (which may be represented on independent job search websites) reflect various market averages and do not represent information obtained directly from The Cleveland Clinic. Because we value each individual candidate, we invite and encourage each candidate to discuss salary/hourly specifics during the application and hiring process.
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