Island Health·Anacortes, Washington
Provide essential bedside care to patients in the Acute Care/ICU, including hygiene, feeding, and mobility assistance. Monitor and record vital signs and glucose levels, reporting any abnormal findings to the registered nurse.
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Answers signal lights and bells to determine patients’ needs.
Bathes, dresses, and undresses patients.
Serves and collects food trays and feeds patients requiring help.
Transports patients to treatment units, using wheelchair, stretcher, bed, or may assist them to walk.
Assist with ambulation.
Drapes patients for examinations and treatments, and remains with patients, performing such duties as holding instruments and adjusting lights.
Assist patients to bathroom, bedside commode, or with use of bedpan for toileting
Tidy and clean patients’ rooms.
Washes and dresses bodies of deceased persons.
Changes bed linens, runs errands, directs visitors, and answers telephones.
Takes and records blood pressure, temperature, pulse and respiration rates, glucose levels, and food and liquid intake and output as directed. Reports unusual findings to nurse.
Assists with turning and repositioning patients as needed.
Reports to RN any abnormal vital signs, skin breakdown, decline in mentation or other observed changes,
Enters data into computer system.
Places telemetry electrodes accurately when ordered.
Collects urine and stool specimens for lab, runs guiac testing
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Requires current Washington State Nursing Assistant Certification and American Heart Association Basic Life Support Certification. A high school diploma and 3 to 6 months of CNA experience are preferred.
Market context
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