Overview
Join our team at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist and make a significant impact on patient care while advancing your career as a Nurse Assistant in a collaborative and dynamic academic learning healthcare environment! Perform patient care, nursing tasks, and clerical duties. Act as a unit receptionist and provide information to patients, families, visitors, and staff. Assist the Licensed Nurse as needed.
Position Highlights:
- Shift Schedule:PRN, Nights (Every 3rd weekend + 1 shift M-F per scheduling block)
- Department: Cardiac Telemetry
- Location:High Point Medical Center – High Point, NC
What You’ll Need:
- High School Diploma or GED
- Completion of a North Carolina State Approved Nurse Aide I course
- BLS certification
Key Responsibilities:
- Patient Care: Provide direct patient care, maintain a safe environment, and assist with activities of daily living.
- Communication: Relay messages, answer phones, and maintain records.
- Patient Information & Documentation: Record vital signs, fluid intake/output, and patient data. Collect specimens.
- Patient Dietary Assistance: Prepare, assist, and document patient meals.
- Patient Transfer/Discharge: Assist with admissions, transfers, and discharges. Provide patient mobility support.
- Patient Environment: Maintain unit cleanliness, manage supplies and equipment, and inspect patient charts.
- Patient Records: Update, assemble, and maintain patient charts. Assist with record requests.
- Call Lights: Respond to call lights promptly.
- Phone Etiquette: Answer phones professionally and direct physician calls to nurses.
- Customer Focus: Provide excellent customer service, greet visitors, and assist with patient needs.
- Supplies & Equipment: Assess unit supply needs, maintain inventory, and deliver requisitions and specimens.
- Teamwork & Support: Assist with patient care procedures, orientation, and unit coordination.
- Meetings & Updates: Attend unit meetings and continuing education programs.
- Professionalism: Maintain a professional demeanor and adhere to department rules and standards.
- Other Duties: Perform assigned tasks as directed by management.
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