Nursing Assistant Training Program Student - Lompoc Valley Medical Center

Salary Range: $16.00

Pay rates are determined based on experience and internal equity.

Position Summary:

• Under the general oversight of the CCC Director of Nursing, the RNPD/DSD, and directly supervised by the NATP Nurse Educator/Instructor.
• Students provide personal care to residents following resident’s Care Plan Approaches and report care provided
• Must work well under stress or tight deadlines.
• Must work well with NATP Nurse Educator/Instructor/classmates, supervisors, co-workers, patients/residents, family members and visitors.

District Responsibility:

• Support of the District Mission and Values
• Demonstrate Respect, Professionalism and Courtesy to all patients, visitors, other providers and coworkers, as delineated in the LVMC “Commitment to Care”.
• Constantly use C-I-CARE principles when communicating with others.
• Performance Improvement Activities
• Professional Development

Position Duties/Responsibility:

(All skills must be learned in the classroom and return demonstration observed prior to performing independently)

• Provides all care tasks according to the residents Care Plan.
• Performs or assists residents with personal hygiene using established procedures indicated. These may include bathing or showering, peri-care, dressing, hair grooming, and oral care.
• Distributes meal trays from carts, cuts foods, assist/feed residents using established procedures, documents resident’s fluid/ food intake and picks up meal trays.
• Ensures prescribed snacks and supplements are offered.
• Changes bedfast and chair-fast resident’s body position to maintain proper position/body alignment.
• Applies restraints, supports, and pads to prevent falls, contractures and pressure sores.
• Follows prescribed programs of preventive skin care, recognizing symptoms of skin breakdown.
• Takes resident’s vital signs and records the data. Reports as needed to instructor.
• Assists residents with voiding and elimination.
• Answers resident call lights per Standard of Care.
• Collects specimens such as urine, and stool for laboratory analysis using established procedures based on the Standard Precautions and correct labeling technique.
• Monitors each assigned resident for food and fluid intake and bowel and bladder output and records.
• Encourages and motivates residents to be out of bed, dressed, active, and to reach their highest practical level of self care and emotional well being.
• Assists in lifting, moving, transferring, and ambulating residents using transfer equipment or gait belt.
• Follows safe work and care practices to protect themselves, residents, visitors, and other staff. Uses proper body mechanics, obtaining assistance with transfers per care plan to lift or transfer residents, using gait belts, lifting devices, and applying proper restraints.
• Use infection control procedures based on Standard Precautions and follow Isolation Precautions.
• Assists in maintaining the resident’s room, closet, and other work areas neat and orderly.
• Monitor for changes in resident’s status, including vital signs, level of physical activity, emotional well-being, cognitive ability, comfort or pain. Report these changes to the NATP Nurse Educator/Instructor, team leader, and CNA.
• To be able to prioritize and organize care to meet the residents needs in a calm professional manner
• Charts on each of their assigned resident’s Activity of Daily Living.
• Other duties assigned by RNPD/DSD or NATP Instructor.
• Maintain attendance, grades, and behavioral expectations as per NATP Policy.

Essential Functions:

• The ability to understand, speak, read, & write English.
• The ability to participate in resident’s ADL’s including lifting, bending and standing/walking for prolonged periods of time
• The ability to read and follow the resident’s Care Plans.
• The ability to be supervised
• The ability to work as a Team.
• The ability to have positive personal interactions with NATP Nurse Educator/Instructor, classmates, staff, patients/residents, families and visitors.

Position Qualifications:

• Education: High School graduate or GED preferred.
• Experience: None
• Certifications: None
• Skills/Ability: Be able to communicate effectively. Be able to follow written and verbal instructions and communicate resident’s condition to NATP Nurse Educator/Instructor and other staff. Have sufficient strength and endurance to fully participate in resident lifting and transporting.
• LVMC reserves the right to modify the minimum requirements depending on the needs of the organization.

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