At UConn Health, this class is accountable for rendering bedside care to the physically or chronically ill in cases where the services of a registered or licensed practical nurse is not required. This position will support all inpatient hospital units and will be located in the UConn Health University Tower in Farmington, CT.
THIS IS A PER DIEM POSITION WITH NO BENEIFTS
BASE HOURLY RATE: $26.95, plus the below.
Fringe Benefit Rate: 37% of Base Pay Hourly Rate
Shift Differential 15% of Base Pay Hourly Rate
Weekend Differential: 15% of Base Pay Hourly Rate
Premium Holiday Hourly Rate: 50% of Base Pay Hourly Rate
SCHEDULE: Per Diem, must be available to work weekdays, weekends, and holidays.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY: Considerable interpersonal skills; ability to work with basic principles of nursing including infection control practices; ability to deal with physically and chronically ill; ability to learn safety and fire procedures.
GENERAL EXPERIENCE:
PREFERRD QUALIFICATIONS: Recent Nurse Aide experience in an inpatient hospital acute care setting
SUPERVISION RECEIVED:
Works under the close supervision of a nurse of higher grade; works more independently with acquired experience.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Incumbents in this class may be required to lift patients and perform other physically tiring work, have some exposure to communicable and/or infectious diseases and strongly disagreeable conditions and to risk of injury from assaultive patients.
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:
Assists doctors and nurses in general care and wellbeing of patients
Positions, transfers moves and lifts patients
May feed bathe and massage clients as well as respond to their general needs
Takes and records temperatures, pulses and respirations
Observes patients and reports unusual symptoms and/or behavior
Ensures that restraints are correctly applied
Tests urine samples for sugar
Collects specimens
Keeps bedpans and related equipment clean
Maintains unit environment for safety of patient
Transports patients, specimens and related patient items
May order supplies
Performs related duties as required
WHY UCONN HEALTH
UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.