Certified Nursing Assistant - Harlingen, TX
- Harlingen, TX
- $5,000 per month
- Contract
- Full-time
- Take/record blood pressure, pulse, respiration, temperature, height, and weight.
- Measure/record intake and output.
- Provide routine care to pre- and post-operative patients.
- Obtain routine specimens (excluding blood) for laboratory analysis and perform standard tests.
- Apply/remove bandages, binders, simple dressings and hot and cold packs.
- Assist patients in walking, moving, and changing positions.
- Prevent obstruction, dislodgment, and unnecessary movement of drainage, suction, and parenteral fluid apparatus.
- Assist physicians and/or nursing staff as appropriate during patient examinations and treatments.
- Provide personal care to include bathing, shaving, and feeding.
- Make equipment available to patients such as bedpans, linen, and grooming items.
- Accompany patients in wheelchairs, on litters or ambulatory within the hospital.
- Motivate patients to manager their illnesses and provide patient instructions as directed by unit standard operating procedures.
- Perform general maintenance duties including, but not limited to, making beds, cleaning/sorting supplies, handling linen according to policies and cleaning patient units.
- Perform patient treatment procedures within established guidelines.
- Communicate pertinent patient data to charge nurse and/or physician as appropriate.
- Recognize and respond to emergency situations according to preplanned emergency response measures.
- Provide patient care as assigned to include documentation of nursing activities in the patient record as appropriate.
- Assist with admission and discharge of patients as well as maintenance of patient information and filling out laboratory/x-ray/EKG slips.
- Additional duties may be assigned. Training will be provided if needed.
- Teamwork - ability to foster teamwork collaboratively as a participant, and effectively as a team leader
- Leadership - ability to guide and lead colleagues on projects and initiatives
- Business Acumen - understanding and insight into how organizations perform, including business processes, data, systems, and people
- Communication - ability to effectively communicate to stakeholders of all levels orally and in writing
- Motivation - persistent in pursuit of quality and optimal client and company solutions
- Agility - ability to quickly understand and transition between different projects, concepts, initiatives, or work streams
- Judgment - exercises prudence and insight in decision-making process while mindful of other stakeholders and long-term ramifications
- Organization - ability to manage projects and activity, and prioritize tasks
- Business Tools - understanding and proficiency with business tools and technology, including Microsoft Office. The ideal candidate is advanced with Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word, and proficient with Adobe Acrobat, data analytic tools, and Visio with the ability to quickly learn other tools as necessary.
- Business Tools - understanding and proficiency with business tools and technology, including Microsoft Office. The ideal candidate is advanced with Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word, and proficient with Adobe Acrobat, data analytic tools, and Visio with the ability to quickly learn other tools as necessary.
- Commitment - to work with smart, interesting people with diverse backgrounds to solve the biggest challenges across private, public and social sectors
- Curiosity - the ideal candidate exhibits an inquisitive nature and the ability to question the status quo among a community of people they enjoy and teams that work well together
- Humility - exhibits grace in success and failure while doing meaningful work where skills have impact and make a difference
- Willingness - to constantly learn, share, and grow and to view the world as their classroom