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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