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 (Full-time Weekend Nights 7p-7a, every Saturday and Sunday night + one weekday night ) in a collaborative and dynamic academic learning healthcare environment!
Position Highlights:
- Shift Schedule: Full-time Weekend Nights 7p-7a, every Saturday and Sunday night + one weekday night
- Department: Emergency Dept.
- Location: Dept. High Point Medical Center
What We Offer:
- Wellness Incentives: Take advantage of up to $1,350 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.
What You’ll Need:
- High School Diploma or GED General Studies
- Successful completion of a North Carolina Board of Nursing Aide I approved training program/competency evaluation
- Nurse Aide I Registration Division of Facility Services Nurse Aide I Registry
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS)
- Preferred: Prior experience
Job Specific Duties
- Patient Observation: Observe/report patient appearance, behavior, care responses. Monitor urine/stool/drainage and report issues. Check IV therapy and report disruptions/disconnections/swelling or pain. Report skin issues and perform necessary treatments. Monitor equipment function and report malfunctions. Report abnormal vital signs and behavior changes.
- Patient Info & Documentation: Document vital signs, fluid intake/output, height/weight. Record diet/activity/observations/treatments. Collect specimens as directed by the nurse.
- Patient Care: Maintain safe, organized patient environment. Prioritize patient care/delegated treatments, assist with elimination activities, hygiene, and therapeutic measures. Turn/reposition bedfast patients every two hours. Provide 1:1 monitoring.
- Dietary Assistance: Prepare/assist with meals, document food intake. Provide fluids as directed.
- Transfer/Discharge: Assist in admission/transfer/discharge, assist with ambulation, and use lifts as needed.
- Patient Environment: Maintain cleanliness, change linens, obtain/return supplies.
- Call Lights: Respond to call lights.
- Teamwork & Support: Assist with pre/post-operative care, surgical preps, and post-mortem care. Complete assigned tasks and report to oncoming Nursing Assistant.
- Customer Focus: Provide excellent customer service, communicate well, be timely and professional. Promote the department positively.
- Meetings & Updates: Attend unit meetings, participate in continuing education. Stay informed about hospital communications.
- Professionalism: Maintain professional relationships, adhere to department rules, practice teamwork, and follow Standards of Behavior.
- Other Duties: Perform assigned tasks as directed by management.
Physical and Behavioral Requirements:
- Lift, carry, and push heavy objects.
- Perform bending, squatting, and standing tasks.
- Use visual acuity for reading and documentation.
- Maintain a sense of smell for safety.
- Utilize a sense of touch to evaluate vital signs.
- Communicate effectively verbally and audibly.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine (WFUSM) is a U.S. News and World Report top 50 ranked medical school, integrated with a world-class health system, Atrium Health. WFUSM, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise, is 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. WFUSM, has over $300M in annual, extramural funding that drives a cutting-edge Academic Learning Health System by integrating innovative research with excellent patient care across our enterprise.
Atrium Health is based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and 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. AHWFB is 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.
Our highly integrated academic and clinical environment is deeply committed to improving health, elevating hope, and advancing healing – for all.
It should be noted that while you are applying on the Wake Forest University School of Medicine Career Site, you will receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process. Thanks in advance for your flexibility.
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