Millcreek Community Hospital, an Equal Opportunity Employer, is currently hiring a Day Time Nurse Aide on ACE and two Night Aides on ICU.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Answers call bells to determine patients’ needs.

2. Bathes, dresses, and undresses patients.

3. Serves and collects food trays and feeds patients requiring help.

4. Transports patients or assists patients to walk.

5. Drapes patients for examinations and treatments, and remains with patients to perform such duties as holding instruments and adjusting lights.

6. Turns and repositions patients with limited mobility, alone or with assistance.

7. Changes bed linens, runs errands, directs visitors, and answers telephone.

8. Takes and records temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration rates, and food and fluid intake and output, as directed.

9. Cleans, stores, prepares, and issues equipment and supplies.

10. Sets up equipment such as oxygen.

11. May accompany patient to other institution or facility.

12. Maintains cleanliness of patients’ room and corridors.

13. Other duties as assigned or requested.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: One year certificate from college or technical school or three to six months related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience

Certifications: CPR

Language Skills: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos

Ability to write simple correspondence

Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations

Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals

Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent

Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form