Nursing Assistant/Ward Clerk

Hettinger, ND
Full Time
West River Health Services
Entry Level
Position Summary:
Responsible to coordinate activities at the Nurses Station, including receptionist, general clerical and information management duties with computer skills.
Provide direct patient care, both medical and non-medical.  Cares are directed and supervised by the RN or LPN.  Assures the maintenance of a safe and clean environment.

Excellence in Practice:
  • Time management:  completes assignments and assists others willingly; answers call lights; greets and directs patients, visitors and hospital personnel in a friendly and courteous manner, assists in room preparation, admissions and discharges.
  • Assists patients with activities and meal time set up, ambulation, transfers, positioning, and dressing.  Attends to physical and emotional needs.
  • Computer skills:  able to admit patients with knowledge about inpatient/outpatient status, obtain charts, able to use order entry for physician orders, specimen collections, equipment repairs and dietary needs.
  • Performs duties independently with little or no supervision.
  • Good technical skills:  vital signs, specimen collection, weights, isolation, hot/cold packs; cooperates in unit cleaning, maintenance, restocking, diet kitchen, utility room, patient rooms and equipment; had good knowledge of phone system, pager system, alarms and proper response to each.
  • Able to prioritize and multitask – separate emergency orders and request for regular work flow.  Adapts to changes in workload while remaining calm and reassuring.  Takes direction from medical professionals, follows stat orders.
  • Treats patients with dignity and respect providing for privacy in all cares.
  • Completes assignments, good time managements.  Assists others willingly.  Answers call lights promptly.  Makes hourly rounds.
  • Assists patients with activities of daily living:  meal time set up and feeding, toileting, ambulation, transfers, positioning, dressing, AM & PM cares – bathing, oral hygiene, shave, skin and nail care.  Attends to physical, spiritual and emotional needs.
  • Accurately documents care provided:  Activity, Meals, I & O, Vital Signs, Weights, Swing Bed activities and ADL assessments.
  • Assist with admissions and discharges – room preparation.
  • Cooperates with unit cleaning, maintenance and restocking:  Diet kitchen, utility room, report room, patient rooms, supply room, med carts, IV trays, equipment, etc.
  • Good technical skills:  Vital Signs, I & O, specimen collection, WBG, Weights, Isolation, hot and cold pads and SCD’s.
  • Respectfully takes direction from medical professionals and reports changes in patient condition timely
  • Assists in maintaining equipment and reports any faulty or unsafe equipment.
  • Collects, compiles and organizes data for stats as designated.
  • Assists with maintaining equipment and reports all faulty equipment.
​​​​​​​Essential Job Requirements:
  • Education: High School Graduate, not required but preferred.
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