cna - gi

Department Name: GI/Pain Clinic

Title: Nursing Assistant

EEOC Classification: Service Worker/Non-Exempt

Dimension and Description

Primary Purpose: Facilitate patient care by assisting the physician or registered nurse.

Formal Policy-Setting Responsibilities: No formal responsibility. The policies associated with the job's purpose and essential responsibilities are set by others.

Routine Decision Making: Decide if general and specialty supplies are adequate, when to report patient complaints or vital signs, and which phone calls to forward to the nurse.

Formal Supervisory Responsibility: No formal supervisory responsibility.

Required Knowledge: Medical terminology, normal patient vital signs, resources available to assist patients obtaining out of hospital care, insurance information.

Required Skills and Ability: Organization, problem-solving, computer skills, customer service, written and verbal communication skills.

Unusual Working Conditions: Risk of blood, body fluid contamination.

Age Specific Competencies: Provides care for birth to pediatric (birth-2 yrs.), pediatric/child patients between (2 years-12 years); adolescent patients between 12 to 18 years of age; adult patients between 18 to 64 years; and geriatric patients 65 years and older.

Essential Responsibilities and Tasks

A. Assists in implementation of plan of care for all assigned patients daily. (65% of time)

1. Assists with activities of daily living and documents daily.

2. Obtains and records vital signs on assigned patients as ordered daily.

3. Reports any abnormal findings to team leader in less than 30 minutes.

4. Utilizes AIDET (acknowledge, introduce, duration, explain and thank) initiatives to include managing up with each patient.

B. Maintains a safe, clean, well-stocked unit, daily. (20% of time)

1. Reconciles and orders all GI/Pain clinic and special order supplies, maintaining par levels daily.

2. Keeps clinic area clean and without clutter daily.

C. Maintains accurate patient accounts, daily. (10% of time)

1. Closes recurring accounts at each discharge.

2. Monitors patient charts for physician signatures, weekly.

3. Reconciles clinic and physician charge sheets with patient visits, daily.

D. Other duties as directed. (5% of the time)

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Medium Work: Lifting 100# maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25#.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Lifting: Raising or lowering an object from one level to another (includes upward pulling).
• Carrying: Transporting an object, usually holding it in hands or arms or on the shoulders.
• Pushing: Exerting force upon an object so that the object moves away from the force (including slapping, striking, kicking, and treadle actions).
• Pulling: Exerting force upon an object so that the object moves toward the force (includes jerking).
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching, or running on a narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces; or maintaining body equilibrium when performing gymnastic feats.
• Hearing: Ability to determine audible communication.
• Stooping: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist.
• Kneeling: Bending the legs at the knees to come to rest on the knee or knees.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending the legs and spine.
• Reaching: Extending the hands and arms in any direction.
• Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or otherwise working with the hand or hands (fingering not involved).
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, or otherwise working with the fingers primarily (rather than with the whole hand or arms as in handling).
• Repetitive Motions: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Feeling: Perceiving such attributes of objects and materials as size, shape, temperature, or texture by means of receptors in the skin, particularly those of the finger tips.

• Seeing: Obtaining impressions through the eyes of the shape, size, distance, motion, color or other characteristics of objects.

• Inside: Worker spends approximately 75% or more of time inside.

• Hazards: Situations in which the individual is exposed to the definite risk of the bodily injury.
• Fumes: Smoky or vaporous exhalations, usually odorous, thrown off as the result of combustion or chemical reaction.
• Odor: Noxious smells, either toxic dust, fumes, gases, vapors, mists or liquids which cause general or localized disabling conditions as a result of inhalation or action to the skin.
• Toxic Conditions: Exposure to toxic dust, fumes, gases, vapors. Mists or liquids which cause general or localized disabling conditions as a result of inhalations or action to the skin.
• Infectious Disease: Risk of exposure to biohazardous materials, blood, body fluid contamination.
• Dust: Air filled with small particles of any kind, such as textiles dust, flour, wool, leather, feathers, etc., and inorganic dust including silica and asbestos, which make the workplace unpleasant or are the source of occupational disease.
• Poor Ventilation: Insufficient movement of air causing a feeling of suffocation; or exposure to drafts.

Education and Certification/ Registration required for the Position: High school education and CNA or MA certification. BLS required.