Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital
Location: Lebanon,NH, USA
Date: 2024-07-01T05:48:48Z
Job Description:
- POSITION STANDARDS
- High School Graduate or GED equivalent
- 18 years or older
- The ability to function in a past paced work environment with excellent organizational, customer service, and prioritization skills required
- The ability to work collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team to provide high quality care to patients
- POSITION PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Anything listed here requires a pre-employment physical by Employee Health to determine if the employee is capable of meeting the requirements.
- Physical Activity:
- Upper Extremity:
- Push/Pull/Lift/Carry:
- PART TWO: FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Position Objective
- Under the direction of the Charge Nurse and/or Nurse Manager, provide nursing unit with efficient and appropriate assistance with selected patient and unit needs. May also perform a variety of clerical duties and various tasks to provide a well-supplied, safe, and clean patient unit.
- Performance Expectation
- Greets patient upon arrival and complete standard admission tasks Room set up after EVS clean to ensure room is ready for next patient
- Collects patient masks and redistributes new masks
- Updates patient board with primary nurse and LNA
- Participates in assisting the patient with readiness for discharge gathering patient belongings, assist patient with getting dressed
- Completes room strip down after discharge
- Completes hourly rounding for patient experience on all assigned patients to include safety checks per unit standards utilizing a rounding script/checklist
- Delivers meal trays for patient not on precautions (i.e. aspiration) and set patients up to eat
- Moves beds to PACU/OR for surgical patients
- Sets patients up and assist patients with the completion of personal care and provide clean hospital gown, and change linens
- Performs patient sitting for patients requiring 1:1 after successful completion of required learning activities
- Assists with uncomplicated patients and/or patients without precautions (BLT, etc.) with lifting, positioning, and dressing of patients
- Perform quality checks of glucometers every 24 hours
- Answers call lights and direct patient needs to appropriate resources
- Stocks equipment from central location to nurse server as needed to ensure unit is well supplied and monitor for expired supplies
- Assists with the maintenance of overall unit organization and cleanliness
- Answers phones and handle calls appropriately
- Performs other duties as required or assigned.