Nursing Assistants deliver essential support within acute care by assisting Veterans with daily living activities, monitoring clinical indicators, and maintaining safe conditions. They uphold established care standards, communicate significant observations to nursing staff, and contribute to an organized, patient-focused environment dedicated to ensuring consistent, high-quality care delivery.
The Nursing Assistant (Acute Care) provides fundamental, frontline support to Veterans requiring inpatient medical, surgical, or telemetry care. Working under the direction of registered nurses, the Nursing Assistant assists with essential daily living tasks, ensures safe mobility and positioning, conducts routine rounding for patient comfort and safety, and performs basic clinical measurements such as vital signs, blood glucose testing, weights, and intake/output. This position plays a vital role in maintaining hygiene, supporting nutrition needs including dysphagia diets, utilizing safe-handling equipment for transfers, and actively participating in safety huddles and bedside rounds to promote coordinated, high-quality patient care. Duties include, but not limited : - Providing patient centered care for residents/patients - Providing activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding dependent patients/residents diets as ordered by the provider or assisting patients with meals including dysphasia patients/residents. - Ambulating patients/residents including the use of assistive devices; turning and positioning patients/residents that are in the bed to help prevent skin breakdowns; skin inspections of all areas prone to skin breakdown - Completing hourly rounds on patients to assist with needs such as comfort, reporting pain to the RN, toileting, and assisting with getting out of bed, or turning/positioning, and preventing falls - Providing patients' personal hygiene by assisting with bathing/showering, shampooing, shaving, dressing and toileting - Utilizing safe patient handling equipment for proper repositioning and/or transferring of the veterans. - Participating in safety huddle and bedside rounds. - Taking/documenting vital signs, blood sugar checks, weights, Intake and Output and reporting abnormal values immediately to covering nurse. Work Schedule: Full-time 12-hour tours beginning at 7:30 a.m., with both day and night compressed schedules available based on unit needs. Compressed/Flexible: Available Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Functional Statement #: 70234F Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
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