**Req Number** 186153

Job Description
Under direction and supervision of registered Nurse, assists with activities of daily living, provides basic nursing care, and assists in maintenance of a safe and clean environment.

Job Responsibility

1.Functions as a co-worker to the nurse and a key member of the nursing care team:

*Organizes patient care assignment and sets priorities.

*Alerts RN co-worker to changes in patient status i.e., alteration in comfort, skin integrity, alterations in breathing pattern, etc.

*Documents patient care and patient status changes on the appropriate chart forms.

*Communicates routine information to RN periodically during shift i.e., intake and output.

2.Assists RN in providing for ADL needs of patients:

*Prepares patients for meals, and feeds or assists with meals.

*Provides between meal nourishment and fresh water to patients.

*Bathes or assists patient to ...