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General Purpose of Job:

To provide general clerical, equipment and patient care support to patient care units. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; employees will perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and/or hospital administration as required.

• Maintains utmost level of confidentiality at all times.
• Adheres to hospital policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines. 
• Clerical duties:  respond to communication devices such as phone/voceru/call bells, able to complete basic entries into the electronic medical record; records patient data in EMR, transcribes written orders.
• Room/Patient care/Equipment management: stocks supply, checks for expiration dates, orders supply, cleans equipment, cleans toys.
• Infectious material exposure: transports blood borne pathogen or other patient specimens, picks up blood from blood bank and delivers to the unit; sprays surgical instruments with enzymatic cleanser and prepares/transports them for processing, packages or moves infectious waste containers for disposal; may provide in rooms support for patients on airborne precautions.
• Patient care support measures, records and empties urine collection devices, empties bedpans/commodes, reinforces established education material or room orientation with patients/families; transports patients off unit for tests/procedures, discontinues Peripheral IV’s, obtains Point of Care specimens and urine, wound, stool throat and nasal specimens.
• Patients at risk for self-harm or harm to others performs room safety check, performs non-clinical patient assistant in addition can perform 1:1 supervision for at risk patients including patients in restraints (not hard restraints) basic data collection and documentation.

Education and/or Experience:

• Graduate from a Nurse Aide School

CERTIFICATES, LICENSURE, REGISTRATION:

• Nurse Aide Certification
• American Heart Association – Basic Life Support (BLS) obtained within prior to hire and maintained continuously thereafter.  May onboard with AHA or Red Cross CPR and then transition to AHA upon first renewal.
• Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NCI) or other DHS deemed relevant course equivalent within 6 months of hire and maintained continuously thereafter.