Nursing Associate - ICU - 36 Hours Nights

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Nursing Associate - ICU - 36 Hours Nights

Position Summary:  Reporting to the nurse manager, with duties under supervision of a Registered Nurse, provides administrative, clerical, and patient care support to inpatient nursing units and performs basic patient care activities in providing for the personal needs, comfort and safety of patients.

Job Description:

Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to:

Support Services

Demonstrates professional working relationships with colleagues from all disciplines to promote a positive/encouraging workplace.

Communicates effectively to optimize team functioning and enhance team productivity.

Responds to queries from physicians, nursing staff, and visitors taking care not disclose confidential patient information to unauthorized individuals.

Files all documents in the patient’s chart (i.e. health care proxy, consents).

3.   Answers telephones, following Lahey’s established greeting; takes and transmits messages to unit staff.

Interacts with patients and families in a compassionate and humanistic manner, demonstrating empathy, sensitivity, and patience.

Coordinates processes associated with admissions, discharges and transfers in a timely and accurate manner; while promoting optimal patient flow throughout the continuum of care.

Updates the patient accommodation code in the electronic health record.

Faxes necessary discharge paperwork to appropriate facilities.

Ensures that unit environments meet regulatory requirements at all times (no cardboard on floor, appropriate sprinkler clearance, safe passages, etc.) by completing daily unit walk through.

Organizes the work area to promote efficiency and optimize workflow.  

Inventories nursing unit’s office supplies and orders new supplies as needed to maintain standard inventory levels.

Orders supplies from Central Supply/Purchasing/other departments as needed or requested in collaboration with Nurse Manager/Clinical Nurse Leader.

Stores supplies ensuring that areas are neat and organized.

Initiates and tracks work requests for improvements and repairs on assigned units.

Collects, submits, and analyzes data for audits as requested.

Serves as a resource for the team related to computer operations and office equipment in conjunction with the Information Systems Help Desk.

Accountable to understand how to operate in downtime.

Assign iPhones to staff at start of each shift.

Update census display board with assigned RNs and iPhone numbers at the start of each shift and as changes occur.   

Direct Patient Care

Takes and enters into the electronic medical record as directed temperatures, EKG, bladder scans, blood sugar readings, patient weights. Uses mobile and ceiling lifts as directed. Applies bedside cardiac monitor and discontinues telemetry leads upon direction by the RN. Reports all unusual observations or reactions of the patient to the nurse assigned to the patient or charge nurse.

Collects various specimens for analysis, including urine and stool specimens. May perform point of care fecal occult and point of care blood glucose testing and document results in the electronic medical record upon completion of the competency. Assists patients in the use of urinal, urine hats, bedpans and commodes. Measures and records intake and output.

Provides patients with personal care by giving complete or partial bed baths, oral and denture care, combing and hair care, giving nail care without trimming or cutting nails or cuticles, giving back rubs or perineal care. May perform preventative skin care and may apply, as delegated by RN, skin care products to help reduce the development of decubitus. Assists with ambulation of patient and use of patient assistive devices. Turn and position patients. Complete range of motion on patient. Makes occupied and unoccupied beds, using proper patient positioning and body alignment. For patient NOT on anticoagulation therapy, may shave with a safety or electronic razor.

Performs basic clinical procedures independently or under the direct supervision of a nurse by: changing simple dressings, performing EKGs, setting up oxygen equipment, applying and re-applying oxygen nasal cannula and face mask following assessment by RNs, assisting patient with coughing and deep breathing, using incentive spirometer, applying hot and cold compresses as directed by RN. Applies elastic stocking/compression boots. Additional activities may be done dependent upon area of work. Set up patient room (suction canisters, cables for cardiac monitoring, tubing for chest tubes). Set up hemodynamic monit