Nursing Assistant - Mother Baby Unit Nights

Penn Medicine

West Chester, PA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS), Beverages, Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Cleanroom, Clinical Assessment, Compensation and Benefits, Employee Benefits, Equipment Maintenance/Repair, Infection Control, Medicine, Nursing, Nursing Credentials, Nursing Management, Operational Support, Order Supplies, Organizational Skills, Patient Care, Quality of Care, Registered Nurse (RN), Research Skills, Sterilization
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West Chester, PA
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23 days ago

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Nursing Assistant - Mother Baby Unit Nights

Job ID: 320967

Category: CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant)/ Nursing Assistant

Work Type: FT

Location: West Chester, PA, United States

Work Schedule: 7:00pm - 7:30am

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Penn Medicine is dedicated to our tripartite mission of providing the highest level of care to patients, conducting innovative research, and educating future leaders in the field of medicine. Working for this leading academic medical center means collaboration with top clinical, technical and business professionals across all disciplines.

Today at Penn Medicine, someone will make a breakthrough. Someone will heal a heart, deliver hopeful news, and give comfort and reassurance. Our employees shape our future each day. Are you living your life's work?

Nursing Assistant - Mother Baby Unit

Full time, 3/12 hour shifts 7:00pm - 7:30am

Every 3rd weekend requirement, holiday rotation

Summary:

  • Provides service oriented patient care under the direction and supervision of a Registered Nurse. Performs duties that support the operation of the nursing unit.

Responsibilities:

  • Provides age appropriate care for the patient population served.

Uses appropriate resources for patients with special needs

Integrates principles of infection prevention into practice.

Responsible for stocking all patient care rooms, closets at the beginning of the shift and ordering necessary supplies.

Check the blanket/fluid warmer outside the OR for outdated materials: stock with blankets, sheets, gowns. Date solutions and record warmer temperature.

Dock Neptune and restock cartridges

Bring a bed from Mother Baby and place it outside the OR for C/Section.

Maintains equipment room: ensure equipment is clean and organized, peanut balls/birthing balls are cleaned and bagged, all monitors are cleaned and bagged, instruments are organized.

Stock and prepare vaginal delivery table

After delivery: makes an icepack, provide beverage as requested, bring infant scale to room, remove delivery table, deliver used instruments to Sterile Processing.

Pick up sterile supplies from Sterile Processing.

Additional Responsibilities: ensure soiled utility room is clean/orderly. Maintain placenta refrigerator (discard placentas after 7 days, and remove placenta triage forms). Take placentas to lab, restock Formalin.

Secure HUGS tags and stocked baby cribs

Open OR for c/s utilizing sterile technique

Assist nursing staff with vital signs, fetal monitor, bedside glucose monitoring as directed by RN

Assists with entering lab results into PENN chart

Credentials:

  • Basic Cardiac Life Support (Required)
  • 44504
  • Certified Nurse Aid
  • Certified Nursing Assistant

Education or Equivalent Experience:

  • H.S. Diploma/GED (Required)
  • Education Specialization: Equivalent Experience: •And Training and/or experience at an acute care facility or student nurse with hospital based clinical experience.

We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.

Live Your Life's Work

We are an Equal Opportunity employer. Candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic or sexual violence victim status, citizenship status, military status, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable law.

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