Description
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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Check the blanket/fluid warmer outside the OR for outdated materials: stock with blankets, sheets, gowns.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.
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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.