nursing assistant

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Nursing Assistant

MTCI Healthcare Services

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) &ndash; Community Outreach &amp; Telehealth SupportMTCI Healthcare Services (Supporting Soteria 360 Senior Thrive Program) Baltimore, MD (Field-Based)Job Type<ul><li>Part-Time (Training Phase) &rarr; Full-Time Opportunity</li><li>Contract / Program-Based Role</li></ul>Pay$22.00 &ndash; $24.00 per hourSchedule<ul><li>Training: 3 days/week, 8-hour shifts</li><li>Full Program: 5 days/week, 8-hour shifts</li><li>Day shifts; flexible scheduling based on community needs</li></ul>Job DescriptionMTCI Healthcare Services is hiring a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) to support the Soteria 360 Senior Thrive Program, a community-based initiative delivering preventive and telehealth services to seniors across Baltimore City.This is a mobile, field-based role where you will work directly with residents in their homes and community settings. You will play a key role in helping seniors enroll in the program, access care, and use remote monitoring technology.If you enjoy working in the community and want to make a real impact, this role is for you.Key ResponsibilitiesCommunity Outreach &amp; Enrollment<ul><li>Assist residents with program eligibility screening</li><li>Support enrollment and onboarding</li><li>Educate participants about program benefits and services</li><li>Engage with seniors in a respectful, patient-centered manner</li></ul>Remote Monitoring Support<ul><li>Assist with setup and installation of devices (blood pressure cuffs, tablets, etc.)</li><li>Teach participants how to use equipment</li><li>Troubleshoot basic issues and report concerns</li></ul>Participant Support<ul><li>Provide ongoing support and follow-up</li><li>Help coordinate appointments and communication with care teams</li><li>Identify barriers to care and report to program staff</li></ul>Field Work<ul><li>Travel to multiple locations across Baltimore City</li><li>Work in homes, community centers, and partner sites</li><li>Represent the program professionally in the community</li></ul>Requirements<ul><li>Active Maryland CNA license</li><li>Must pass CJIS background check</li><li>Strong communication and interpersonal skills</li><li>Comfortable working in community/home environments</li><li>Ability to use basic technology (smartphones, tablets, apps)</li></ul>Preferred Qualifications<ul><li>Experience with seniors or community health programs</li><li>Background in outreach or patient engagement</li><li>Bilingual candidates encouraged to apply</li></ul>TransportationReliable transportation strongly recommended (This role requires travel between multiple sites in Baltimore City)Why Join Us<ul><li>Make a direct impact in your community</li><li>Work with a mission-driven healthcare program</li><li>Gain experience in telehealth and remote patient monitoring</li><li>Opportunity to grow with an expanding program</li></ul>Apply TodayJoin MTCI Healthcare Services and help improve access to care for Baltimore seniors through the Soteria 360 Senior Thrive Program.Pay: $22.00 - $25.00 per hourWork Location: In person

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) – Community Outreach & Telehealth Support

University of Maryland Medical System

<div>Job Requirements 
 
Under the direction of professional nursing staff, provides direct patient care. Takes vital signs, checks surgical dressings, and aids with activities of daily living (ADLs). This role performs blood draws and collects specimen samples. Observes and collects data and communicates about the patient&rsquo;s status in order to identify needs and provides needed care. Serves as a member of the interdisciplinary patient care services team.<ul><li> 
Performs testing and manages the care of the patient based on results achieved and clinical findings.</li><li>Records patient care along the continuum, including activities of daily living (ADLs): feeding, bathing, dressing, toileting and transferring.</li><li>Completes, documents and reports patient vital signs (temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiration, oxygen saturation and reported pain level).</li><li>Assists in admission, transfer and discharge of patients.</li><li>Participates in cost effective strategies to optimize patient outcomes.</li><li>Promotes patient safety including fall prevention. Ensures the safety of the clinical environment for patients, visitors, and other staff members.</li><li>Maintains order and appearance of patient rooms and work area. Maintains patient care supplies and linen.</li><li>Provides post-mortem care.</li><li>Collaborates with members of the health care team to carry out the plan of care, including reporting observed changes in patients&rsquo; condition.</li><li>Ensure patient comfort relative to their pain status.</li><li>Measures and documents patient urinary and stool output. Documents calorie count. Measures and documents patient weight.</li><li>Assists with indwelling urinary catheter care. Applies, maintains and removes external urinary catheter devices. Performs bladder scans, measures post void residuals and documents. Inserts both intermittent and indwelling catheters, documenting volume output.</li><li>Conducts blood glucose monitoring.</li><li>Performs venipuncture for drawing blood samples and establishes IV access.</li><li>Performs nasal swabs.
</li><li>Gathers equipment required and initiates placement IV for the patient as directed by the registered nurse.</li><li>Sets up and operates multiple lead EKG machines; attaches and removes EKG leads; runs a rhythm strip.</li><li>Assists with enteral tube feedings via nasogastric or gastrostomy tubes, as supervised by licensed nurse.</li><li>Performs chest physical/physio therapy, tracheal suctioning, tracheostomy care and incentive spirometry treatments as delegated and supervised by the responsible registered nurse
</li><li>Assists with simple dressing changes, such as routine dressings to stage one and two wounds, surgical incisions, and peripheral IV sites after assessment by a Registered Nurse. Provides wound care to promote healing and maintain structural integrity of the skin. Performs skin care and hygiene and reports impaired skin integrity and/or wound impairment. Assists with appropriate strategies and/or treatment measures to provide wound care.</li><li>Assists with collection of patient specimens for laboratory testing. Incorporates proper techniques for patient identification, method for collection of appropriate specimen(s) and documentation.</li><li>Provides orthopedic/rehab device care: e.g. braces, splints, CPM. Dons/doffs compression wraps/stockings.</li><li>Precepts and mentors other PCTS (PCT I and PCT II), ensuring completion of documentation.
</li><li>Participates in hourly patient rounding in collaboration with the health care team.</li><li>Responds to patient triggered alarms, including call light, chair alarm, bed alarm, tele-sitter alarm, etc.</li><li>Complies with The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals within scope of practice.</li><li>Detects, reports, and acts to avoid or correct safety risks. Reports adverse events and near misses to appropriate management authority.
</li><li>Provides professional vigilance to assigned patients, including when assigned as a patient safety companion.</li><li>Incorporates safe lifting techniques and body mechanics in daily practice.
</li><li>Improves patient flow and prevents care delays.</li><li>Perform all other duties as assigned.</li></ul> 
Work Experience
 
<ul><li>High school diploma or equivalent required.</li><li>
Current Maryland state certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) or Geriatric Nursing Assistant (GNA) required.</li><li>
Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.</li><li>
One (1) year of previous experience preferred.</li></ul> 
Knowledge, Skills, &amp; Abilities 
<ul><li>
Able to effectively communicate using verbal and written skills.
</li><li>Maintain interpersonal relationships and use teamwork skills to provide care along with other team members in a cohesive manner.</li><li>
Ability to organize work priorities, perform several duties simultaneously and function in stressful situations.</li><li>
Ability to learn and use computer systems</li><li>
Documenting findings.</li><li>
Demonstrates the ability to perform delegated nursing tasks according to the age, culture, ethnicity, spirituality, and individual diagnostic needs of the persons served.</li><li>
Demonstrates knowledge, practice and accountability for skills or procedures that require aseptic technique.</li></ul></div>

Patient Care Technician II, Spinal Cord Injury Unit

<div>Job Requirements
 
<h2 class="jobSectionHeader">Company Description</h2> 
The University of Maryland Medical System is a 14-hospital system with academic, community and specialty medical services reaching every part of Maryland and beyond. UMMS is a national and regional referral center for trauma, cancer care, Neurocare, cardiac care, women&rsquo;s and children&rsquo;s health and physical rehabilitation. UMMS is the fourth largest private employer in the Baltimore metropolitan area and one of the top 20 employers in the state of Maryland. No organization will give you the clinical variety, the support, or the opportunities for professional growth that you&rsquo;ll enjoy as a member of our team.<h2 class="jobSectionHeader"> 
Job Description</h2> 
Shift: Full time, Rotating (7:00am - 7:30pm, 7:00pm - 7:30am) 
General Summary
Under the direction of professional nursing staff, provides direct patient care. Takes vital signs, checks surgical dressings, aids patient&rsquo;s with activities of daily living. This role performs blood draws and collects specimen samples. Observes and collects data and communicates about the patient&rsquo;s status in order to identify needs and provides needed care. Serves as a member of the interdisciplinary patient care services team. 
Principal Responsibilities and Tasks
The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the person assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by personnel so classified. 
<ul><li>
Performs testing and manages the care of the patient based on results achieved and clinical findings.</li><li>
Records patient care along the continuum, including activities of daily living (ADLs): feeding, bathing, dressing, toileting and transferring.</li><li>
Completes, documents and reports patient vital signs (temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiration, oxygen saturation and reported pain level).</li><li>
Assists in admission, transfer and discharge of patients.</li><li>
Participates in cost effective strategies to optimize patient outcomes.</li><li>
Promotes patient safety including fall prevention. Ensures the safety of the clinical environment for patients, visitors, and other staff members.</li><li>
Maintains order and appearance of patient rooms and work area. Maintains patient care supplies and linen.</li><li>
Provides post-mortem care.</li><li>
Collaborates with members of the health care team to carry out the plan of care, including reporting observed changes in patients&rsquo; condition.</li><li>
Ensure patient comfort relative to their pain status.</li><li>
Measures and documents dietary intake and patient urinary and stool output. Documents calorie count. Measures and documents patient weight.</li><li>
Conducts indwelling urinary catheter care. Applies, maintains and removes external urinary catheter devices.</li><li>
Conducts blood glucose monitoring.</li><li>
Provides wound care to promote healing and maintain structural integrity of the skin. Performs skin care and hygiene and reports impaired skin integrity and/or wound impairment. Assists with appropriate strategies and/or treatment measures to provide wound care.</li><li>
Assists with collection of patient specimens for laboratory testing. Incorporates proper techniques for patient identification, method for collection of appropriate specimen(s) and documentation.</li><li>
Provides orthopedic/rehab device care: e.g. braces, splints, CPM. Dons/doffs compression wraps/stockings.</li><li>
Participates in hourly patient rounding in collaboration with the health care team.</li><li>
Responds to patient triggered alarms, including call light, chair alarm, bed alarm, tele-sitter alarm, etc.</li><li>
Complies with the The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals within scope of practice.</li><li>
Detects, reports, and acts to avoid or correct safety risks. Reports adverse events and near misses to appropriate management authority.</li><li>
Provides professional vigilance to assigned patients, including when assigned as a patient safety companion.</li><li>
Incorporates safe lifting techniques and body mechanics in daily practice.
</li><li>Improves patient flow and prevents care delays.</li><li>
Performs other duties as assigned.</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"> 
Qualifications</h2> 
Education &amp; Experience<ul><li>
High school diploma or equivalent required.</li><li>
Current Maryland state certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) or Geriatric Nursing Assistant (GNA) required.
</li><li>No previous experience required; previous direct patient care experience in a health care facility preferred.</li><li>
Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.</li></ul> 
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities<ul><li>
Able to effectively communicate using verbal and written skills.</li><li>
Maintain interpersonal relationships and use teamwork skills to provide care along with other team members in a cohesive manner.</li><li>
Ability to organize work priorities, perform several duties simultaneously and function in stressful situations.</li><li>
Ability to learn and use computer systems</li><li>
Demonstrates proper technique and skills needed for obtaining accurate blood glucose results and documenting findings.</li><li>
Demonstrates the ability to perform delegated nursing tasks according to the age, culture, ethnicity, spirituality, and individual diagnostic needs of the persons served.</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"> 
Additional Information</h2> 
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. 
Like many employers, UMMS is being targeted by cybercriminals impersonating our recruiters and offering fake job opportunities. We will never ask for banking details, personal identification, or payment via email or text. If you suspect fraud, please contact us at careers@umms.edu.</div>

Patient Care Technician I, Shock Trauma, Neurotrauma IMC, Rotating

<div>Job Requirements 
 
Under the direction of professional nursing staff, provides direct patient care. Takes vital signs, checks surgical dressings, and aids with activities of daily living (ADLs). This role performs blood draws and collects specimen samples. Observes and collects data and communicates about the patient&rsquo;s status in order to identify needs and provides needed care. Serves as a member of the interdisciplinary patient care services team. 
Primary Responsibilities
The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job responsibilities performed.<ul><li>Performs testing and manages the care of the patient based on results achieved and clinical findings.</li><li>Records patient care along the continuum, including activities of daily living (ADLs): feeding, bathing, dressing, toileting and transferring.</li><li>Completes, documents and reports patient vital signs (temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiration, oxygen saturation and reported pain level).</li><li>Assists in admission, transfer and discharge of patients.</li><li>Participates in cost effective strategies to optimize patient outcomes.</li><li>Promotes patient safety including fall prevention. Ensures the safety of the clinical environment for patients, visitors, and other staff members.</li><li>Maintains order and appearance of patient rooms and work area. Maintains patient care supplies and linen.</li><li>Provides post-mortem care.</li><li>Collaborates with members of the health care team to carry out the plan of care, including reporting observed changes in patients&rsquo; condition.</li><li>Ensure patient comfort relative to their pain status.</li><li>Measures and documents patient urinary and stool output. Documents calorie count. Measures and documents patient weight.</li><li>Assists with indwelling urinary catheter care. Applies, maintains and removes external urinary catheter devices. Performs bladder scans, measures post void residuals and documents. Inserts both intermittent and indwelling catheters, documenting volume output.</li><li>Conducts blood glucose monitoring.</li><li>Performs venipuncture for drawing blood samples and establishes IV access.</li><li>Performs nasal swabs.</li><li>Gathers equipment required and initiates placement IV for the patient as directed by the registered nurse.</li><li>Sets up and operates multiple lead EKG machines; attaches and removes EKG leads; runs a rhythm strip.</li><li>Assists with enteral tube feedings via nasogastric or gastrostomy tubes, as supervised by licensed nurse.</li><li>Performs chest physical/physio therapy, tracheal suctioning, tracheostomy care and incentive spirometry treatments as delegated and supervised by the responsible registered nurse</li><li>Assists with simple dressing changes, such as routine dressings to stage one and two wounds, surgical incisions, and peripheral IV sites after assessment by a Registered Nurse. Provides wound care to promote healing and maintain structural integrity of the skin. Performs skin care and hygiene and reports impaired skin integrity and/or wound impairment. Assists with appropriate strategies and/or treatment measures to provide wound care.</li><li>Assists with collection of patient specimens for laboratory testing. Incorporates proper techniques for patient identification, method for collection of appropriate specimen(s) and documentation.</li><li>Provides orthopedic/rehab device care: e.g. braces, splints, CPM. Dons/doffs compression wraps/stockings.</li><li>Precepts and mentors other PCTS (PCT I and PCT II), ensuring completion of documentation.</li><li>Participates in hourly patient rounding in collaboration with the health care team.</li><li>Responds to patient triggered alarms, including call light, chair alarm, bed alarm, tele-sitter alarm, etc.</li><li>Complies with The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals within scope of practice.</li><li>Detects, reports, and acts to avoid or correct safety risks. Reports adverse events and near misses to appropriate management authority.</li><li>Provides professional vigilance to assigned patients, including when assigned as a patient safety companion.</li><li>Incorporates safe lifting techniques and body mechanics in daily practice.
</li><li>Improves patient flow and prevents care delays.</li><li>Perform all other duties as assigned.</li></ul> 
Work Experience 
 
Education &amp; Experience - Required<ul><li> 
High school diploma or equivalent required.</li><li>Current Maryland state certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) or Geriatric Nursing Assistant (GNA) required.</li><li>Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.</li></ul>
Education &amp; Experience - Preferred<ul><li> 
One (1) year of previous experience preferred.</li></ul> 
Knowledge, Skills, &amp; Abilities<ul><li> 
Able to effectively communicate using verbal and written skills.</li><li>Maintain interpersonal relationships and use teamwork skills to provide care along with other team members in a cohesive manner.</li><li>Ability to organize work priorities, perform several duties simultaneously and function in stressful situations.</li><li>Ability to learn and use computer systems</li><li>Demonstrates proper technique and skills needed for obtaining accurate blood glucose results and documenting findings.</li><li>Demonstrates the ability to perform delegated nursing tasks according to the age, culture, ethnicity, spirituality, and individual diagnostic needs of the persons served.</li><li>Demonstrates knowledge, practice and accountability for skills or procedures that require aseptic technique.</li></ul></div>

Patient Care Technician II, TBI Nights

MedStar Health

<div>About this Job: General Summary of Position 
Functions as a member of the patient-centered care team to provide direct patient care activities under the supervision of a Registered Nurse for assigned patients and their families/significant others. Assists medical and nursing staff with procedures and/or tests and patients with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). Performs specific care activities such as specimen collection phlebotomy intravenous (IV) catheter insertion electrocardiography (EKG) and documentation in the health record.Incumbents in this position may perform all or a combination of the duties described depending upon the assigned work area and the specific needs of the patients and the department.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities 
<ul><li>
Contributes to the achievement of established department goals and objectives and adheres to department policies procedures quality and safety standards and SPIRIT Values. Complies with governmental regulations and accreditation standards.</li><li>
Assists patients with activities of daily living (ADLs) and personal hygiene including bathing mouth care dressing skin care positioning feeding ambulation toileting and range of motion activities. Assists with patient mobilization and rehabilitation use of crutches and walkers and transfer/transport of patients in wheelchairs and stretchers.</li><li>
Collects specimens (e.g. blood urine sputum stool); performs venipuncture/phlebotomy; obtains EKGs; applies external telemetry monitoring boxes/devices; and inserts intravenous (IV) catheters changes of IV sites and dressings and routine inspection of IV sites.</li><li>
Assists in the measurement and documentation of patient's intake and output (I&amp;O). Accurately takes and records patient's vital signs height and weight pulse oximetry point of care and waived testing (i.e. finger sticks for glucose monitoring/Accucheck urine dipstick hemoccult) and other pertinent data or information in the patient's health record.</li><li>
Performs routine sterile non-sterile (e.g. application of thermal soaks) and other treatments/activities identified by Unit/Hospital policy inclusive of but not limited to: tube feedings; ostomy care; Foley Catheter care and removal; perineal care; simple dressing changes and wound care; turning and positioning; postmortem care and transportation of body to the morgue; maintenance of drainage tubes with/without pump or suction; care of oxygen equipment; and assistance with the application maintenance and removal of traction casts splints and exercise equipment.</li><li>
Maintains the comfort privacy and confidentiality and dignity of each patient in the delivery of services. Performs patient observation duty including 1:1 observation and application of restraints. Prepares patients to be seen by providers. Assists providers and registered nurses in patient examinations and procedures.</li><li>
Rounds on all assigned patients based on established standards (e.g. purposeful hourly rounding). Reports actual and potential problems concerning patients/families including changes in the patient's condition to the registered nurse and other care team members as necessary. Ensures complete hand off to oncoming shift and obtains full hand off from outgoing shift. Initiates and assists in CPR when indicated.</li><li>
Participates in patient/family teaching as directed and responds to questions from patients families and visitors in a prompt courteous and respectful manner referring them to appropriate personnel if necessary.</li><li>
Maintains the cleanliness and safety of patient rooms/environment by distributing and changing linen/towels removing used meal trays checking bed siderails and safety restraints etc. Assists with environmental services support such as linen management trash removal and cleaning patient rooms as needed.</li><li>
Transports and/or escorts patients during discharges transfers and/or medical appointments. Completes errands such as delivering specimens to the laboratory equipment and supplies etc. as required.</li><li>
Receives and stocks equipment and supplies and maintains orderly supply and utility rooms.</li><li>
Attends staff meetings ongoing educational offerings and participate in multidisciplinary quality and service improvement teams.</li></ul>
Minimal Qualifications 
Education<ul><li>
High School Diploma or GED required and</li><li>
Completion of an approved Patient Care Technician training program required
</li></ul>Experience<ul><li>
Less than 1 year experience as a certified nursing assistant or a patient care tech required and</li><li>
Experience as a care technician; general health care experience in an acute care long-term care or other settings; student nurse in junior or senior year preferred
</li><li>One year of relevant professional-level work experience may be substituted for one year of required education.</li></ul>
Licenses and Certifications<ul><li>
CNA - Certified Nursing Assistant from the relevant jurisdiction Upon Hire required and</li><li>
CPT - Phlebotomy Technician Certification Upon Hire preferred and</li><li>
CPR - Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation (includes BLS and NRP) for healthcare providers from either the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross within 90 Days required and</li><li>
Additional unit/specialty certifications may vary by department or business unit.
</li></ul>Knowledge Skills and Abilities<ul><li>
Basic math knowledge;</li><li>
verbal and written communication skills.</li><li>
Basic computer skills preferred.</li></ul>
This position has a hiring range of : USD $19.55 - USD $34.25 /Hr.</div>

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