Nurse Extender - Part Time

Iberia Medical Center (IMC) in New Iberia, LA is looking for team members who will help advance our vision to be the premier hospital of choice for patients, physicians, and employees. We've been caring for our community for over 60 years and offer many diverse career paths. Our new employees experience opportunities to learn and grow while caring for their families, friends, and neighbors.

JOB SUMMARY: 

• Part Time or Relief position
• Provide basic patient care.
• Perform routine treatment procedures and assist in maintenance of a safe, clean environment.
• Ensure adherence to Hospitals and departmental policies and procedures.
• Patient care assignment may include neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric age groups.

SUPERVISED BY: Medical Surgical Unit Manager

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Completion of basic nursing skills course at an accredited nursing program
• Competency checklist for each identified tasks.
• Student in good standing of a nationally accredited nursing program with completion of first semester of acute care clinical course. 
• CPR Certification or must obtain within 30 calendar days of date of position
  

PRINCIPLE TASKS, DUTIES, AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform routine treatment procedures, to include invasive procedures such as venipuncture for lab draws and IV initiation
• Assist nursing staff in complicated treatment procedures; perform routine treatment procedures
• Provide basic patient care; assist with ADL’s to include bathing and assisting patient to the bathroom, take and record vital signs to include temperature, pulse, respiration, weight, height, blood pressure and intake-output measurements
• Collect, label, and transport specimens
• Transport equipment, supplies, charts, and materials
• Make rounds, handle patient requests, report and record changes in condition or behavior of patients or unusual incidents, within scope of training
• Make rounds and handle basic patient requests, and perform basic patient and family assistance tasks
• Clean patient care rooms, equipment and instruments; report equipment problems; order and store supplies; maintain appropriate PAR levels
• Assist and accompany patients in the admission, transfer and discharge process
• Prepare patients for meals, and also assist patients as necessary
• Deliver and pick-up meal trays, pass the beverage cart, and assist designated patients to chair, with ambulation, or to the bathroom
• Maintain a safe, comfortable, and therapeutic environment for patients/families in accordance with Hospitals standards
• Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, reading current literature, attending in-services, meetings and workshops
• Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures and protocols
• Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes
• Identify and report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk
• Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner
• Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right"