Cleveland Clinic

Non-profit medical center delivering care

Nursing Assistant - Adult Psych

Nursing & Frontline Patient CareUpdated on Nov 7

Part-timeCleveland, OH, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A high school diploma or GED is required.
Basic math skills and the ability to read and write are required.
Successful completion of Basic Life Support through the American Heart Association or American Red Cross is required within the new-hire period.
The role requires empathy; courteous and helpful interactions with patients, visitors, and personnel; constructive conflict resolution; maintaining confidentiality; respect for cultural and social differences; and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
The role requires full body motion, patient handling and lifting, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination.
The role requires frequent standing, walking, kneeling, reaching, squatting, bending or stooping, and lifting patients.
Corrected vision and hearing to the normal range are required.
The role requires working under stressful conditions and irregular hours, and involves exposure to communicable diseases or bodily fluids.
The role requires exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, 10 to 25 pounds frequently, and up to 10 pounds constantly; physical demands exceed those for Light Work.
The role requires following standard precautions and using personal protective equipment as required.

Responsibilities

Assist with a wide variety of patient-care tasks and collaborate with healthcare team members to promote patient care.
Organize patient-care assignments to ensure timely completion of care for assigned patients.
Seek assistance as needed for difficult assignments or problem solving.
Document care in the patient record.
Label specimens properly.
Ask patients about pain and report it to the RN or LPN as needed; use the pain scale.
Maintain orderliness and cleanliness of the unit, including patient and unit equipment.
Keep patient areas neat and uncluttered, and prepare rooms for patient admissions.
Clean and maintain patient and unit equipment, including over-bed tables, bed pans, and bedside commodes.
Report equipment, supply, and maintenance problems promptly to the RN.
Make hourly patient rounds, based on patient condition, to ensure safety measures are in place, including appropriate side rails, beds in low and locked positions, accessible phones and call lights, and appropriate restraints.
Ensure bed alarms are activated during hourly rounds.
Use personal protective equipment and universal precautions to assist patients toward independent living.

Desired Qualifications

State Tested Nursing Assistant certification is preferred.
Previous nursing assistant experience is preferred.

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Job Title

NDA - Adult Psych

Location

Cleveland

Facility

Lutheran Hospital

Department

Adult Psych 3B-Lutheran Hospital

Job Code

G0007W

Shift

Evenings

Schedule

3:00pm-11:30pm

Job Summary

Provides for patients' daily living activities; maintains safe and clean environment, maintains supplies, maintains equipment function. Transports patients and completes errands. With direction from RN assists in direct patient care tasks (i.e. performs EKGs, blood glucose monitoring, specimen collection, dressing changes, colostomy care and documentation of vital signs).

Job Details

Responsibilities:

Assist with wide variety of patient care tasks and collaborates with members of health care team to promote the delivery of patient care.
Organizes patient care assignments to ensure timely delivery and completion of care on assigned patients.
Seeks assistance as necessary for difficult assignments or problem solving.
Documents the care provided in patient record.
Labels specimens properly.
Asks patient about pain and reports to the RN/LPN as needed.
Utilizes pain scale.
Maintains orderliness and cleanliness of unit including patient/unit equipment.
Keeps patient areas neat and uncluttered and prepares rooms for patient admissions.
Cleans and maintains patient/unit equipment (i.e. over-bed tables, bed pans, bedside commodes).
Reports any problems (i.e. equipment, supplies and maintenance problems) immediately to the RN.
Makes hourly patient rounds (based on patient condition) to assure that safety measures are in place (i.e. side rails up as needed; beds in low, locked position; phone and call lights are within the patients' reach; and restraints are applied appropriately.
Ensures that all bed alarms are activated during hourly rounds. Utilizes personal protective equipment and universal comfort to assist the patient toward independent living.
Other duties as assigned.

Education:

High School Diploma or GED required.
Requires basic math skills and ability to read and write.

Certifications:

State Tested Nursing Assistant (STNA) certification preferred.
Successful completion of Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross required within new hire period.

Complexity of Work:

Demonstrates empathy and interacts with patients, visitors, and all personnel in a courteous, helpful manner; able to resolve conflict in a constructive manner; able to maintain confidentiality regarding patients, families and co-workers; demonstrates respect for individual cultural and social differences.
Requires ability to work with minimal supervision.

Work Experience:

Previous nursing assistant experience preferred.

Physical Requirements:

Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patient, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination.
Requires frequent standing, walking, kneeling, reaching, squatting, bending/stooping and lifting patients.
Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.
Requires working under stressful conditions and irregular hours.
Exposure to communicable diseases and/or body fluids.
Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.

Personal Protective Equipment:

Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.

Cleveland Clinic Health System administers an influenza prevention program. You will be required to comply with this program, which will include obtaining an influenza vaccination on an annual basis or obtaining an approved exemption.

Decisions concerning employment, transfers and promotions are made upon the basis of the best qualified candidate without regard to color, race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, ancestry, status as a disabled or Vietnam era veteran or any other characteristic protected by law. Information provided on this application may be shared with any Cleveland Clinic Health System facility.

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Cleveland Clinic is pleased to be an equal employment opportunity employer.

About the Company

Cleveland Clinic

Non-profit medical center delivering care

Cleveland Clinic runs a nonprofit academic medical center that delivers patient care, conducts research, and educates future clinicians. It provides in-person hospital services, surgeries, and telehealth options, plus digital tools like MyChart to manage care, as well as provider tools such as DrConnect and eRadiology to coordinate care. It differentiates itself by combining clinical care, medical research, and education under a nonprofit model with a broad international network and a strong emphasis on safety and quality. Its goal is to deliver high-quality medical care while advancing medical knowledge and training clinicians to improve health outcomes for diverse populations, globally.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: Grant
Total funding: $74.7M
Headquarters: Cleveland, OH
Founded: 1921

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