STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
HUMAN RESOURCES
CLASSIFICATION: NURSING ASSISTANT TRAINEE
Class Code: 6581-07
Date Established: 09-04-79
Occupational Code: 3-2-3
Date of Last Revision: 12-28-01
BASIC PURPOSE: To provide quality direct care services
for geriatric and/or psychiatrically impaired residents, including providing
assistance in activities of living and maintaining a safe and clean
environment.
CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Provides for the
needs of residents, such as cleanliness, nourishment, and emotional comfort as
directed by a nurse.
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Provides basic
nursing care taking vital signs and collecting specific specimens for routing
laboratory examinations.
·
Prepares and assists
transferring of residents to special functions, trips, consults, religious
activities, and other places within and outside the facility.
·
Maintains a safe and
clean environment which promotes resident therapeutic needs utilizing the
principles of infection control and universal precautions.
·
Promotes resident
independence in meeting individual needs.
·
Encourages and
maintains an open communication system and positive interactions with
residents, families, and guardians.
·
Documents in records
all care rendered describing behaviors and reactions of the resident.
·
Attends and
participates in in-service educational programs to broaden knowledge related to
the position.
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Completes daily
assigned tasks such as clothing collection and distribution, replenishment of
charts, and other ward supplies and takes care of residents' clothing.
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DISTINGUISHING FACTORS:
Skill: Requires minimal skill in performing a
series of routine procedures OR in operating equipment according to
standardized instructions.
Knowledge: Requires understanding and using
business or trades vocabulary or basic arithmetic to perform standard operating
procedures.
Impact: Requires minimal responsibility for
contributing to agency objectives by supporting or performing routine work
activities within a small organizational unit. Errors at this level are of minor consequence and are
readily detected through frequent checking or inspection.
Supervision: Requires no supervision of employees or
functions.
Working Conditions: Requires performing regular
job functions in an adverse working environment containing a combination of
disagreeable elements which impact significantly upon the employee's capacity
for completing work assignments.
This level includes work-related accidents or assault.
Physical Demands: Requires medium to heavy
work, including continuous physical exertion such as frequent bending, lifting
or climbing.
Communication: Requires obtaining and exchanging
information, referring inquiries to the appropriate source, or responding to
questions from state employees or members of the general public.
Complexity: Requires a minimal combination of job
functions, including performing frequently repeated tasks according to set
procedures and standardized situations.
Independent Action: Requires making a limited number of
choices in selecting among alternative courses of action under supervisory
guidance and in performing job functions according to a variety of prescribed
policies or procedures.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: Graduation from high school, G.E.D. or
its equivalent.
Experience: No experience required.
License/Certification: See Special Requirements listed below:
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
1.
Appointment to this
classification is provisional pending satisfactory completion of all required
written and physical components of the Certified Nursing Assistant training
program as approved by the New Hampshire Board of Nursing and, in conjunction
with the state Division of Personnel within the first five (5) weeks of
employment or completion of the program.
2.
Completion of the
Nursing Assistant Competency Evaluation within the first four (4) months of
employment or provide verification of registration as a Certified Nursing
Assistant with the NH State Board of Nursing including documentation of
in-services hours earned.
3.
Must maintain a
current license as required by the NH Board of Nursing.
4. Satisfactory completion of
in-service hours, within the specified time frame, as required by HCFA.
RECOMMENDED WORK TRAITS: Elementary knowledge of the materials
used and the processes involved in hospitals or mental institutions. Ability to get along with people and
maintain and empathic attitude toward the mentally and physically ill. Ability to learn materials and
processes used in attending the personal needs of institutionalized
adults. Ability to exercise sound
judgment in unusual situations.
Ability to observe residents and learn established techniques in the
care of residents. Ability to
follow oral and written orders.
Ability to read and write.
Must be willing to maintain appearance appropriate to assigned duties
and responsibilities as determined by the agency appointing authority.
DISCLAIMER STATEMENT: This class specification is descriptive
of general duties and is not intended to list every specific function of this
class title.
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