NURSING ASSISTANT - Intermediate Nursery - (Roanoke, VA)

Support Carilion`s hallmarks of service excellence and quality for all job duties. This is an opportunity to serve and provide compassionate care to patients from your community. Work is performed in patient care environment and is often fast-paced, requiring use of prioritization skills. May be exposed to infectious diseases, biohazardous and hazardous materials, including regulated medical wastes, and combative patients. May be required to support multiple nursing units. Interacts with unit staff, patients, physicians, families, visitors, management, ancillary departments, and the general public. Maintains patient, staff and customer confidentiality. If assigned to perform patient care tasks must possess the expertise to recognize and report data reflective of the patient`s status, and provide the care needed as described in departmental policies and procedures. May be required to sit with patients on suicide precautions.