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About the Role

Performs routine non-professional tasks in support of nursing services, including minor personal patient care. This non-technical role involves patient care and indirect services not requiring a licensed nurse, operating under general supervision, with direct supervision for patient care activities.

Responsibilities

• Assists in walking, feeding, and bathing patients and caring for their personal needs.
• Assists nurses in lifting and turning patients, restraining irrational patients, holding patients for treatment, caring for involuntary and disturbed patients, and preparing patients for surgery.
• Regulates visitor numbers and provides information to visitors as instructed by the nurse in charge.
• Assembles information concerning patient condition and enters reports on patient records.
• Assists with training new employees.
• Cleans and sterilizes hospital equipment.
• Labels and stores patients' clothes and turns over valuables to the designated person.
• Assists with the care and maintenance of room furniture, fixtures, and supplies to ensure patient safety and comfort.
• Cleans, dusts, and maintains order in private rooms, ward units, and other facilities.

Requirements

• Ability to understand and follow routine non-technical, oral, and written directions related to patient care.
• Physical strength and mental alertness.
• Willingness to cooperate and follow a prescribed routine.
• Discretion, tact, and good judgment.
• Ability to interact positively with others and gain patient cooperation.
• Interest in hospital work.
• Neatness and good appearance.
• Physical condition commensurate with the demands of the position.
• Must successfully complete a New York State training program and registry examination approved by the New York State Health Department within the prescribed time frame following appointment, or present evidence of completion.

Skills

• Patient care
• Communication
• Cooperation
• Following directions
• Record keeping
• Equipment cleaning and sterilization
• Maintaining patient environment

Experience Level

• Entry Level

Education Level

• Completion of a course of study for Nursing Assistant or Home Health Aide

Salary/Compensations

• $19.24—$24.50 USD