Patient Care Nursing Assistant - Neuroscience - 0.6 FTE - Evenings

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Job Title

Patient Care Nursing Assistant - Neuroscience - 0.6 FTE - Evenings

Location

Akron

Facility

Akron General Medical Center

Department

9100 Neuroscience Unit-Cleveland Clinic Akron General

Shift

Evenings

Schedule

3:00pm-11:30pm

Join us at Cleveland Clinic Akron General Hospital where we have been providing world-class care to our community for over 100 years. Here, we strive for patient-centered care and comfort with our collaborative team of healthcare professionals. We are committed to serving the community and treat our patients as family.

The 9100 Neuroscience Unit at Akron General offers medical attention following strokes, TBIs, spinal cord injuries and other sometimes life-changing medical concerns. As a Patient Care Nursing Assistant (PCNA) on this team, you will perform various tasks, ensuring patients receive frequent attention and feel comfortable, supported and safe throughout treatment. This is a hands-on role that requires a present, attentive and empathetic caregiver who is willing to learn new medical technologies and support patients through some of their most vulnerable moments. On this unit, you will gain a wide variety of skills you can use in advanced positions or other departments within the Cleveland Clinic system.

A caregiver in this position works evenings from 3:00PM 11:30PM, including every other weekend and 3 holidays per year.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Prepare units, patient rooms and patient beds for receiving patient admission, returning surgical patients, transfer or emergencies.
• Provide and document assigned care, such as bathing, changing/refreshing bed linens, dressing/undressing, feeding, etc.
• Take and document the patient's temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, pulse oximetry, weight and height.
• Perform treatment procedures, such as venous blood draws, enemas, application of ice and heat packs, non-sterile compresses, skin preps, setting up oxygen equipment, bed scale weights, setting up overhead trapeze and Buck's traction.
• Assist with pre-operative and post-operative care, such as turning and positioning patients with proper body mechanics, applying/utilizing special equipment and ambulating the patient as directed in a safe, prescribed manner.
• Assist and accompany patients during admission, transfer and discharge.
• Perform hourly safety rounds, anticipate patient needs and respond to patient call lights promptly.
• Document patient care in the electronic medical record.
• Complete ongoing competency requirements, education programs and mandatory training to maintain certification and/or licensure.
• Prepare patients for meals, assist in feeding patients if necessary and distribute water and other nourishments according to patient needs in compliance with physician orders.
• Collect, properly label and transport specimens to proper area in timely manner.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross upon or within new hire period
• Basic computer knowledge and skills

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• State Tested Nursing Assistant (STNA)
• One year of recent acute care experience
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full body motion to move and lift patients, manual finger dexterity with good eye-hand coordination; involves extensive standing and walking.
• Medium Work - Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our tobacco free and drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substance and nicotine.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.

Cleveland Clinic Health System is pleased to be an equal employment employer: Women / Minorities / Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities.