Certified Nursing Assistant, Cardiac Care Unit

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago provides superior pediatric care in a setting that offers the latest benefits and innovations in medical technology, research and family-friendly design. As the largest pediatric provider in the region with a 140-year legacy of excellence, kids and their families are at the center of all we do. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is ranked in all 10 specialties by the U.S. News & World Report.

Night (United States of America)

Location

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Job Description

Hours: Full time, Night shift (7p-730a), 36 hours per week (3x12hr shifts), every 3rd weekend.

Cardiac Care Unit

The Cardiac Care Unit (CCU) is a 44-bed acuity adaptable unit. The CCU serves patients with all types of cardiac disease and illness including congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathy, cardiac arrhythmias, and heart transplant. The CCU nurses care for patients ranging from birth through adolescence and into adulthood in some cases. The acuity adaptable model of care allows the CCU to treat patients who are critically ill, acutely ill, and everywhere in between. All nurses in the CCU are critically-trained with the ability to provide elite care utilizing ventricular assist devices, continuous renal replacement therapy, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and other complex care delivery modalities

General Summary:    

The Nursing Assistant (NA) works under the direction of a Registered Nurse to provide care for patients/families with acute and chronic diseases and disorders found in the pediatric and adolescent into the young adult populations. Actively supports the hospital’s and the department’s quality goals and service excellence principles.

Essential Job Functions:

Direct patient care-- Assists with the following tasks under the direction of an RN:

• Orienting families to the ambulatory clinic area

• Vital signs measurement per department standard

• Documentation of patient data per department standard either on paper record or in EMR

• Emptying fluid collection containers

• Point of care testing/controls glucose, hemocult, urine dipstick, hemoglobin A1C, HCG testing

• PO feeding

• Bulb suctioning

• Assisting with procedures

• Assisting with intra hospital transport

• Holding patients

• Providing comfort measures

• Performs ECGs and bladder scan

• Communicate and interact with patients & families to foster a therapeutic and collaborative relationship

• Intervene in anticipated emergency situations and know emergency protocols

1:1 Observation  

• Maintain a safe environment for the patient, family, and staff through 1:1 continuous monitoring (remaining at arm’s length and facing the patient at all times including during bathroom and shower activities) and additional activities as assigned

• Maintain age/developmentally appropriate patient interaction in a therapeutic manner focusing on behavioral monitoring and de-escalation interventions

• Perform components of general care needs (eating, hydration, and/or elimination) if/when needed.

• Monitor patients for changes in behavior and communicate to appropriate staff (nurse, physician, nursing/medical assistants, etc.)

• Actively reinforce goals and parameters set by the care team which may include age/developmentally appropriate goals, expectations and behavioral limits

• Respond appropriately and promptly to direction given by nursing or other clinical staff

• Participate in hand off (from patient safety associate to patient safety associate at change of shift or to other team members) and communicates any special care considerations, care priorities or support needs

• Documents care delivered/patient responses to interventions in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) while utilizing the behavioral support guidelines

Stocking and maintenance:

• Distributing linen

• Clean rooms after discharge

• Replacing canisters, oxygen tubing, and nebulizers per protocol

• Obtaining unit supplies

• Returning unused supplies/equipment from patient room and treatment room to central area designated by unit

• Stocking patient carts

Clerical:

• Assisting with sending labs

• Phone calling/paging as directed

• Coverage for clerk

Cleaning: