NURSING ASSISTANT
Tenure: Full-Time
Location: Dover, DE (MUST Drive)
Shift: All Shifts are available
What's in it for you?
- Weekly pay
- Consistent full time and part time hours
Responsibilities:
- Provides patient care in a manner conducive to safety and comfort.
- Makes both occupied and unoccupied beds;
- . Accompanies patients when transported outside the center for appointments as requested;
- Ensures patients are ready for scheduled rehab therapy and transports patients to rehab area;
- Notifies licensed nurse if patient identification is missing;
- Participates in the care planning process and implements care according to care plan;
- Performs skin treatments, as permitted by state regulation;
- Applies simple clean dressings, slings, stockings, and support bandages, under direction of the licensed nurse, as permitted by state regulation;
- Feeds or assists patients with meals and provides additional nourishment and hydration per care plan;
Qualifications:
- Successful completion of a state approved certified nursing assistant program.
- A minimum of a high school education or high school equivalency diploma is preferred.
- This position requires that the employee is able to read, write, speak and understand the spoken English language to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our patients and visitors at the work site when responding to their medical and physical needs.
- Must provide verification of TST (tuberculin skin test) as required by state law and in accordance with Company policy. TSTs will be administered at the work site if required.
- Basic knowledge of computer use or willingness to learn.
- Must attend a minimum of 12 hours continuing education programs provided by the center in order to maintain certification.
- Complies with applicable legal requirements, standards, policies and procedures including but not limited to those within the Compliance and Ethics Program, Standard/Code of Conduct, Federal False Claim Act and HIPAA.
- Participates in required orientation and training programs.
- Promptly reports concerns and suspected incidences of non-compliance to supervisor, Compliance Liaison or to the Compliance Officer via the Integrity Hotline.
- Cooperates with monitoring and audit functions and investigations. Participates, as requested, in quality assurance and process improvement activities.
