UNC Health - Lumberton, NC
posted about 2 months ago
Full-time
Lumberton, NC
10,001+ employees
Ambulatory Health Care Services
About the position
The position involves providing routine direct and indirect patient care in various healthcare settings, including hospitals, clinics, and home health care. The role is supervised by a registered nurse or physician and requires availability to work on weekdays and weekends. The primary focus is on assisting healthcare providers, performing clinical tasks, and ensuring patient comfort and safety.
Responsibilities
- Assist physicians and other health care providers with routine examinations and procedures, as well as procurement of equipment and supplies.
- Provide administrative and clerical support including PI audits and data entry.
- Provide clinical support assistance, including cleaning the work area, maintaining office equipment, troubleshooting common software and hardware problems, changing linens, checking supply inventory, re-stocking supplies, transporting patients/supplies/specimens, and assisting in the orientation of new employees and students.
- Provide direct personal care to patients as outlined in plan of care activities such as bathing, dressing, feeding, and assisting with ambulation. Measure and record vital signs, and patient height and weight. May be responsible for specimen collection, skin preps/scrubs, catheter care, capillary blood glucose checks, simple wound care, range of motion exercises, and/or postural drainage.
- Reinforce routine teaching given to patients by the registered nurse or physician and document patient understanding of instructions. Distribute patient education materials at the request of patients and/or health care providers.
Requirements
- High School diploma or GED
- Listed as Nursing Assistant II with the North Carolina Board of Nursing
- Listed as Nursing Assistant I with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
- Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification
- Six (6) months related nursing assistant experience
- Fluent in verbal and written English language and able to develop basic computer skills.
