certified nursing assistant Honolulu, HI
Job description
Scope of Service
The Queen Emma Tower Neuroscience ICU (NSICU) is a 14-bed ICU with 8 beds on QET4D and 6 beds on QET 5D. The NSICU is dedicated to the care of patients with neurological illness. The unit operates on a 24-hour basis, with 24-hour neurointensivist and neuroscience acute care nurse practitioner coverage. QMC has the only dedicated NSICU in the State of Hawaii and supports Hawaii’s first (and currently only) TJC Comprehensive Stroke Center, the only American College of Surgeons Level I Trauma Center and only NAEC Level IV Epilepsy Center.
QET 4D/5D NSICU provides care for adult, geriatric, and pediatric patients. The most frequent admissions/diagnoses include: post-op from neurosurgical or neurointerventional procedures, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, ischemic stroke, intracerebral and subarachnoid hemorrhage, CNS tumors, status epilepticus, and neuromuscular illnesses such as Guillain-Barre Syndrome, and myasthenia gravis.
The NSICU can also provide care to overflow medical, surgical, and cardiac ICU patients
Responsibilities
- Performs a variety of duties pertaining to patient care, patient transportation, material and supply distribution and equipment assembly.
- Performs duties in accordance with departmental and Medical Center policies, procedures and regulations.
II. TYPICAL PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
- Essential: lifting up to 2 pounds, seeing, hearing, talking, grasping, fingering.
- Continuous: standing, walking, stooping, forward reaching, handling.
- Frequent: pushing and pulling up to 30 pounds, lifting up to 10 pounds, sitting, bending.
- Occasional to frequent: squatting, twisting.
- Occasional: pushing and pulling up to 50 pounds; lifting: horizontal lift/carry up to maximum 50 pounds, floor to waist up to 35 pounds, waist to shoulder up to 25 pounds, overhead level up to 15 pounds; carrying up to 35 pounds, running, climbing, side bending, kneeling, crouching, overhead reaching.
- Operates various machines/tools/work aids.
III. TYPICAL WORKING CONDITIONS:
- Inside work.
- Exposure to body fluids, blood products, and communicable diseases.
- Work environment may be highly stressful, fast paced and hectic.
- Assignment to inpatient adult psych areas and Family Treatment Center includes occasionally accompanying patients outdoors.
- Management of confused/disoriented and combative patients may involve tasks that may compromise physical safety.
IV. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
A. EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE:
- Ability to read, write, speak and understand English, both orally and in writing.
- Minimum one (1) year work experience as a Nurse Aide; or,
o Diploma or certificate as a Medical Assistant.
o Diploma or certificate as an Emergency Medical Technician.
o Diploma or certificate as a Patient Care Technician.
o Nursing student having completed a semester of clinical fundamentals; or,
o RN with a foreign RN license with at least one (1) year acute care experience.
- Current certification in BLS/HCP.
B. EXPERIENCE:
- Recent experience in an acute care setting preferred.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Vet
About Queen's Medical Center
CEO: Jill Hoggard Green
Revenue: $500 million to $1 billion (USD)
Size: 5001 to 10000 Employees
Type: Nonprofit Organization
Website: www.queens.org
