Nurse Assistant I, Pediatric Intermediate Care Unit,
Brenner Children's Hospital, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical, Winston-Salem, NC
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 (PRN) in a collaborative and dynamic academic learning healthcare environment!
Position Highlights:
- Shift Schedule: PRN, (1 shift per week), 7a-7p and/or 7p-7a
- Department: Pediatric Intermediate Care Unit (PIMC)
- Location: Brenner Children's Hospital, AHWFB
What We Offer:
- Wellness Incentives: Take advantage of up to $1,500 per year in wellness incentives through our LiveWELL program, prioritizing your well-being.
- Education Reimbursement: We invest in your professional growth, offering up to $2,500 per year towards a bachelor’s degree and up to $5,000 per year towards a graduate degree.
- Parental Benefits: We understand the importance of family, providing six weeks of paid maternity leave and four weeks of paid parental leave.
- Retirement: Secure your future with up to 7% employer-paid retirement contributions, ensuring financial peace of mind.
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or GED.
- Completion of a North Carolina State Approved Nurse Aide I course and BLS certification required.
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.
Physical and Behavioral Requirements:
- Perform various physical tasks, including lifting and bending.
- Maintain visual acuity, sense of smell, and sense of touch.
- Effectively communicate with patients, family, and staff.
- Manage high-stress situations due to patient volume.
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.
Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.
This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.
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