Nursing Assistant
Part-Time, Days
4G Unit
Unit Description:
4G is a 20-bed telemetry unit. This unit specializes in post-op CABG patients, post-op cardiac surgery, CHF and moderate risk chest pain patients. The population has multiple co-morbidities and complex care. The patient population is transferred from ICU, ED, and PACU.
Under the direction of a Registered Nurse (RN) or other licensed care team member, Nursing Assistant provides direct patient care and related support by performing selected nursing procedures and routine duties to assist medical and nursing personnel in the examination, treatment, and care of patients.
Provides direct patient care, including hygiene, mobility, toileting, feeding, and positioning.
Obtains and documents vital signs, intake/output, weights, specimens, and other patient data.
Performs delegated clinical procedures such as blood glucose monitoring, EKGs, and venipuncture.
Assists with patient admissions, transfers, discharges, and procedures.
Performs clerical and unit coordination duties, including patient charts and physician orders.
Maintain supplies, equipment, and a safe patient care environment.
Responds to patient needs and emergency situations while providing compassionate, respectful care.
Requirements
High school diploma or equivalent (GED)
Current KY Nurse Aide Certification, or successful completions of first year of Nursing program with validation of clinical rotation
Basic Life Support- Applicants will have 30 days from their hired date to provide completion of this certification if they don’t have it already.
Benefits
Preventive Plan
Life Insurance
Retirement Plans
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Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
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