Nurse Assistant I, Resource Team, Full-time Nights

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is currently hiring for Nurse Assistant I positions within the Resource Pool. Our various service lines include ICU, Med/Surg, ED, and Acute Care. All NA Is hired into these services are required to float to various facilities within a certain region, depending on the role and service line. Nurse Assistant I, Resource Team Full-Time Nights

Nurse Assistant I, Resource Team, Full-Time, Nights

JOB SUMMARY:  Provides assistance to the nursing staff by rendering specific treatments in addition to basic nursing care to assigned patients.  Delivers direct and indirect care following physician and nursing orders to achieve the highest standards of age/developmental specific care. Minimum of six (6) months experience strongly preferred.

Region 1:  

• Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
• Davie Medical Center (Bermuda Run, N.C.)
• Wilkes Medical Center, (North Wilkesboro, N.C.)

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:  

1. High school diploma or GED equivalent.

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION:  

1. Completion of a North Carolina State Approved Nurse Aide I course required.  
2. Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) required.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

1. Participates in the implementation of the nursing process by giving direct care to patients under the direction of the Registered Nurse (RN). 
2. Performs special procedures correctly under the direction of Registered Nurse (RN). 
3. Creates and maintains a safe and therapeutic environment for patients, self, co-workers, and facility. 
4. Ensures complete, accurate and timely communication of patient information.
5. Communicates to the team, co-workers, patients and family members in an effective, positive and professional manner.
6. Takes personal responsibility and initiative for performance, professional growth and development.
7. Provides age/developmental appropriate patient care in accordance with Age/Developmental Specific Care Guidelines for the specific age groups served.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: 
 

1. Strong oral and written communication skills
2. Performs effectively with frequent workload changes and competing demands
3. Basic computer skills

WORK ENVIRONMENT: 
 

1. Contact with patients, family members, visitors, co-workers, and medical staff under wide variety of circumstances
2. Regular exposure to blood-borne diseases, infectious and contagious diseases
3. Subject to multiple interruptions
4. Occasional exposure to radiation hazards
5. Possible exposure to cleaning agents/chemicals
6. Occasionally subject to irregular hours
7. Uses personal protective equipment

  Same Posting Description for Internal and External Candidates

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.