Description
UCLA HEALTH
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Description
Under direct supervision of the Perinatal nurse manager, performs basic patient care skills, follows infection control practices, positions, transfers and transports patients, takes vital signs, collects specimens, accurately observes, reports and charts, performs range of motion and assists with feedings, self-care activities and elimination needs. Additional duties include customer relations, area coordination, patient record maintenance, office/unit operations, automated data maintenance, (verifying, recording, posting and filing informational materials via automated/manual systems). Training of clerical staff and performing other duties as required.
Salary Range: $26.57 – $35.02 hourly
Qualifications
- Current California Certification of Nursing Assistant OR current enrollment in a state approved nursing school program, with a minimum of one completed med/surg rotation required
- BLS from the American Red Cross or American Heart Association required
- Ability to pass an 8 hour computer data entry training course
- Ability to perform all physical requirements pertaining to delegated nursing, PT/OT, and RT assisted tasks
- Understanding of basic medical terminology and abbreviations, preferred
- Recent ward clerk and/or appropriate clerical experience in an acute hospital environment, preferred
- Skill in evaluating and reporting various kinds of emergent information pertinent to the functioning of an inpatient care unit