20 hours per week DAY/EVENING Rotation Hours: 6a-6:30p, 6a-2:30p, 2p-10:30p
Job Summary
- Provides assistance to the nursing staff of 5 Main, which is a Medical/ Surgical/Cardiovascular Telemetry Unit that provides acute nursing care duties assigned by the Director/Clinical Supervisor or designee. Duties assigned are related primarily to specific nursing care functions, which do not require professional education or licensure, assisting in maintaining safe and efficient unit operations, providing support for patient care programs, utilizing excellent customer service skills and communication skills. Permitted to change patient from portable O2 to wall O2.
- Education
- Minimum:
- High
- School
- Diploma or
- Equivalent
- Preferred: Current enrollment or completion of Nursing Assistant training program.
- Registration/Certification/Licensure:
- Healthcare
- Provider
- CPR
- Experience
- Minimum:
- None
- Preferred: Clinical experience obtained through a nurse aide educational program, OR recent experience in a related area, OR related educational background.
- Other
- Requirements: Comprehensive Crisis Management per policy. Responsible to safely access, transport, and handle single dose medications to include prescription and non-prescription medications. Responsible to safely access, transport, and handle sharps, such as needles, suture kits, lancets, syringes, etc.
- Physical
- Requirements: The following frequency definitions apply to all
- Physical
- Requirements unless otherwise noted:
- Occasional: (0-1/3 of day , 0 - 2.5 hrs/day, 1 - 4 reps/hr)
- Frequent: (1/3 -2/3 of day , 2.5 - 5.5 hrs/day, 5 -24 reps/hr)
- Constant: (> 2/3rd of day , > 5.5 hrs/day, > 24 reps/hr)
NOTE
An asterisk (*) indicates that the item is an essential function.
- Non-Material Handling Standing
- - Remaining on one's feet in an upright position remaining stationary - FREQUENT Walking
- - Remaining upright on one's feet, and moving about - CONSTANT Sitting
- - Body remains in a seated position - OCCASIONAL Stooping
- - To bend the body downward and forward by bending the spine at the waist - FREQUENT Bending
- - To flex the upper body forward - FREQUENT Twisting
- - To rotate the upper body forward - FREQUENT Climbing
- - To move the body in any direction on equipment or structures that do not include stairs or ladders - OCCASIONAL Ladders
- - To ascend and descend ladders - N/A Stairs
- - To ascend and descend stairs - OCCASIONAL Kneeling
- - To move the body downwards and come to rest on both hands and both knees - OCCASIONAL Squatting
- - To move the body downwards by bending both knees - OCCASIONAL Crouching
- - To bend the body forward and downward by bending the spine and the legs - OCCASIONAL Crawling
- - To move the body forward or backwards on hands and knees - OCCASIONAL Reaching Horizontal
- - To extend the arms and hands outward, remaining under shoulder height - OCCASIONAL Reaching Overhead
- - To extend the arms and hands up and out over shoulder height - FREQUENT Grasping
- - Using functional gripping of the hand to handle an object - FREQUENT Finger Manipulation
- - To manipulate objects with the use of fingers - CONSTANT Seeing
- - Using visual feedback to accomplish a task or activity - CONSTANT Hearing
- - Using sound feedback to accomplish a task or activity - CONSTANT Repetitive Upper Extremity Use
- - Using the arms and/or hands continuously or more than 2/3 of the total time - CONSTANT Repetitive Lower Extremity Use
- - Using the legs and/or feet continuously or more than 2/3 of the total time - N/A Material Handling Pushing
- - To exert a force upon an object in order to move it in a certain direction Pushing refers to moving an object away from the person. FREQUENT 20# - 50# Pulling
- - To exert a force upon an object in order to move it in a certain direction Pulling refers to moving an object towards the person. FREQUENT 20# - 50# Lift
- - Floor to Waist OCCASIONAL 20# - 50# Lift
Physical Demand
Met Level: Examples of similar activity intensity
Sedentary to Light 0 - 3.5 Light house cleaning, washing dishes, serving food, food shopping, sitting, standing, computer work. Medium 3.6 - 6.3 House work (mopping, scrubbing), health club exercising, treadmill work, stretching, yoga, walk/run-play with children, aerobic class, dancing, carrying bucket/wood, auto body repair, shoveling snow, golf (carrying clubs). Heavy to Very Heavy > 6.4 Calisthenics (push up, pull up, sit up, vigorous effort), carrying groceries upstairs, shoveling coal, bailing hay, fire fighting, sawing by hand, splitting wood.
As relates to this position
- ● Sedentary to Light
- - FREQUENT ● Medium - N/A ● Heavy to Very Heavy - N/A
