Nursing Care Assistant Ii- Duke University Hospital- Neuro Sd 9 Dct (Day Or Night Shift)

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

Nursing Care Assistant II - Duke University Health System

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:

• Quality of Life: Living in the Triangle!
• 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.

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:

• Perform sterile dressing change for wounds over 48 hours old, IV fluid assistance activities, oral/nasogastric feeding and urinary catherizations/irrigation.
• Tracheotomy care
• Collect, deliver and conduct routine tests on patient specimens.
• Clean assigned area; stock and replenish supplies and equipment as required.
• Prepare patients, equipment and supplies for specific procedures and provide manual assistance as required.
• Perform finger sticks for blood glucose testing, with appropriate training.
• Participate in own professional development by maintaining required skills validation and attending educational offerings.
• Note and report any changes in patient's condition.
• Follow standard precautions and use personal protective equipment as required.
• Ostomy care
• Oxygen therapy, including room set-up and monitoring flow-rate
• 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.
• Take and record vital signs, record I&O, apply ice bags, administer douches and enemas.
• Obtain and record patient data for medical records noting and informing RN/LPN of information collected.
• Irrigation and annual skills validation
• Assist with admission, discharge, and transportation of patients.
• Support the development of other staff and formal learners.
• Turn and position patients, set up and feed patients as necessary, provide patients with fresh drinking water.
• Participate in teaching activities by reinforcing teaching instructed by RN and/or physician as needed.
• Assist physician and nurses with physical examinations by helping position patients, changing non-sterile dressing and weighing patients.
• Oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal suctioning
• Break up and removal of fecal impaction

What you will need:

• Current Nurse Aide II Registry listing with the N.C. Board of Nursing
• High School Diploma or higher.
• Current Nurse Aide I Registry listing with the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Division of Health Service Regulation.
• 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.