Nursing Assistant

at Dignity Health YRMC/ Prescott & PV

Job Description

As our Nursing Assistant at Dignity Health-Yavapai Regional Medical Center, you’ll help our patients feel safer and more comfortable by assisting with their basic daily life activities. Your success in this role comes from your genuine desire to help patients feel better, whether that means giving them fresh bed linens or checking their vitals. You’re diligent about your tasks, observant of patients’ conditions improving or declining, and accept coaching well. You know we’re all continuously trying to become better care providers, and you’re eager to learn.

Responsibilities

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  Conduct hourly rounds on approximately eight patients checking vitals maintaining whiteboard information and assisting with care as needed.
• Assist patients with ambulating as necessary.
• Assist released patients in getting safely to their vehicles outside.
• Assist patients with hygiene needs.
• Help the bedside nurse with any wound checks or dressing changes.
• Change bed linens check patients’ weight other tasks as assigned each day.