Nursing Care Assistant Ii - Duh Birthing Center - Labor And Delivery Rotating Days/Nights

Duke University Hospital

Duke University Hospital is consistently rated as one of the best in the United States and is known around the world for its outstanding care and groundbreaking research. Duke University Hospital has 1,048 licensed inpatient beds and offers comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic facilities, including a regional emergency/trauma center; a major surgery suite containing 65 operating rooms; an endo-surgery center; a separate hospital outpatient surgical department with nine operating rooms and an extensive diagnostic and interventional radiology area. For 2021-2022, U.S. News and World Report ranked Duke University Hospital nationally in 11 adult specialties: cancer, cardiology & heart surgery, diabetes & endocrinology, ear, nose & throat, gastroenterology & GI surgery, gynecology, neurology & neurosurgery, ophthalmology, orthopedics, pulmonology & lung surgery, and urology. Duke University Hospital is also ranked first in North Carolina and first in the Raleigh-Durham area.

In addition to its hospitals, Duke Health has an extensive, geographically dispersed network of outpatient facilities that include primary care offices, urgent care centers, multi-specialty clinics and outpatient surgery centers.

Duke Nursing Highlights:

• Quality of Life: Living in the Triangle!
• Duke University Health System is designated as a Magnet organization
• Nurses from each hospital are consistently recognized each year as North Carolina's Great 100 Nurses.
• Duke University Health System has 6000 + registered nurses
• Duke University Health System was awarded the American Board of Nursing Specialties Award for Nursing Certification Advocacy for being strong advocates of specialty nursing certification.
• Relocation Assistance (based on eligibility)

*******Eligible for Sign-On Bonus of $5000 for newly hired candidates*******

Nursing Care Assistant II - Duke University Health System - DUH Birthing Center Labor and Delivery - Rotating Days/Nights

Duke University Health System seeks to hire a Nursing Care Assistant II – Health Unit Coordinator who will embrace our mission of Transforming Lives Transforming Care.

Duke Nursing Highlights:

• Professional advancement opportunities through our Clinical Ladder Program (Nursing Care Assistant, Surgical Tech, Certified Medical Assistant).
• Duke University Health System is designated as a Magnet®organization.
• Quality of Life: Living in the Triangle!

Responsibilities:

The Nursing Care Assistant II performs a variety of non-professional nursing duties under the direct supervision of an RN/LPN to support patient care.

What you will do:

• Ostomy care
• Assist physician and nurses with physical examinations by helping position patients, changing non-sterile dressing and weighing patients.
• Irrigation and annual skills validation
• Turn and position patients, set up and feed patients as necessary, provide patients with fresh drinking water.
• Break up and removal of fecal impaction
• Participate in teaching activities by reinforcing teaching instructed by RN and/or physician as needed.
• Clean assigned area; stock and replenish supplies and equipment as required.
• Participate in own professional development by maintaining required skills validation and attending educational offerings.
• Oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal suctioning
• Prepare patients, equipment and supplies for specific procedures and provide manual assistance as required.
• Support the development of other staff and formal learners.
• Take and record vital signs, record I&O, apply ice bags, administer douches and enemas.
• Follow standard precautions and use personal protective equipment as required.
• Tracheotomy care
• Perform sterile dressing change for wounds over 48 hours old, IV fluid assistance activities, oral/nasogastric feeding and urinary catherizations/irrigation.
• Obtain and record patient data for medical records noting and informing RN/LPN of information collected.
• Administer treatment and personal care procedures to patients including, but not limited to, feeding, bathing, shaving, changing clothing, cleaning and trimming fingernails, bed-making, assisting with ambulation, enemas, skin care, and bowel and bladder elimination; provide such additional care as required to meet the personal needs and comfort of assigned patients.
• Collect, deliver and conduct routine tests on patient specimens.
• Perform finger sticks for blood glucose testing, with appropriate training.
• Assist with admission, discharge, and transportation of patients.
• Oxygen therapy, including room set-up and monitoring flow-rate
• Note and report any changes in patient's condition.

What you will need:

• Current Nurse Aide II Registry listing with the N.C. Board of Nursing
• Current Nurse Aide I Registry listing with the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Division of Health Service Regulation.
• High School Diploma or higher.
• Basic Life Support certification from American Heart Association.

Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.