Nurse Attendant

About This Role

This role supports Registered Nurses in providing basic nursing care to patients, assisting with daily living activities, and maintaining a safe and clean environment. The Nurse Attendant functions as a key member of the nursing care team, contributing to patient well-being and unit efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Organize patient care assignments and set priorities
• Alert RN co-worker to changes in patient status, such as comfort, skin integrity, or breathing patterns
• Document patient care and status changes on appropriate chart forms
• Communicate routine information to RN periodically during shift, such as intake and output
• Prepare patients for meals, and feed or assist with meals
• Provide between-meal nourishment and fresh water to patients
• Bathe or assist patients to bathe, and provide oral hygiene
• Toilet patients as necessary and maintain patient's mobility with range of motion exercises and ambulation
• Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rate, and blood pressure on admission and as assigned
• Measure and record fluid intake and output, totaling at shift end

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Completion of Nurse Assistant course OR prior experience as a Nursing Attendant or equivalent
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Ability to follow written and/or oral instructions
• Ability to work in diversified settings
• Ability to lift, turn, position patients

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent; Completion of Nurse Assistant course or equivalent
• Prior experience as a Nursing Attendant or equivalent, or completion of Nurse Assistant course

Nice to Have

• NYS Nurse Attendant certification