Nursing Assistant at Imo International Health Systems

Job Summary

• A Nursing Assistant is to provide basic care to patients, as well as assist them in daily activities they might have trouble with on their own, such as bathing.
• They should be compassionate and enjoy helping others.

Responsibilities

• Provides patients’ personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves; assisting with travel to the bathroom; helping with showers and baths.
• Provides for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary; ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals.
• Provides adjunct care by administering enemas, douches, non-sterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, sitz and therapeutic baths; applying restraints.
• Maintains patient stability by checking vital signs and weight; testing urine; recording intake and output information.
• Provides patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials; transporting patients; answering patients’ call lights and requests; reporting observations of the patient to nursing supervisor.
• Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.
• Maintains work operations by following policies and procedures.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations; maintaining licensure.
• Enhances nursing department and hospital reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

Basic Qualifications

• The individual must have a minimum of a Nursing Assistant training certificate
• 1-2 years experience
• The individual must be computer literate

Other Qualifications:

• Strong written, verbal and communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills and bed side manner
• Good attention to detail and ability to solve problems
• Productive and quality focused
• Drive to continue learning throughout career