Michigan, Lansing, USA
4 days ago
Unit Assistant - Ortho Trauma (7E)
Under the supervision of a registered nurse, responsible for providing support to nursing staff and assisting in the delivery of patient/resident care following patient care plan and hospital policies and procedures.
Responsibilities:  
• Provides routine patient/resident care services such as call light response; ambulating, transferring, and positioning; personal hygiene assistance, prescribed bowel and bladder program assistance, etc.
• Collects, records, and reports various patient/resident data.  Reports changes in patient/resident condition.
• Provides general clerical support to unit such as answering the phone, data entry, and assembling, maintaining, and distributing various information.
• Transcribes physician orders and notifies appropriate parties of orders and consultations.
• Schedules procedures with other departments. Required: 
• High school graduate or equivalent. • Successful completion of a health unit coordinator course or, high school or college course work in medical terminology and computer/data entry. • Specialized education requirements, for those not meeting minimum six-month nursing assistance experience requirement, include: o acute care nursing assistant course preferred for acute care positions or  o long term care nursing assistant course or o completion of an emergency medical technician program or  o completion of medical assistant program or  o completion of a clinical rotation while participating in accredited nursing program. •     Prior nursing assistant experience of at least six months is required when the specialized education requirements identified above has not been met.  • Basic Life Support (BLS) certification as Healthcare Provider or equivalent through the Military Training Network (MTN).
Preferred:
• Six months of clerical experience in healthcare setting. Direct patient care experience. • Computer keyboard skills and windows application experience.   Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans.  
Additional Information Schedule: Full-time Requisition ID: 24007195 Daily Work Times: 7AM-7PM Hours Per Pay Period: 72 On Call: No Weekends: Yes
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