Nursing Assistant

Summary Nursing Assistant perform duties in a variety of health care settings such as outpatient, inpatient, home or community living care, acute, sub-acute. The Nursing Assistant will care for patients/residents with acute to chronic conditions. This position is located at the Western New York VA Health System in Buffalo, NY. Responsibilities Duties include but are not limited to: - Will learn to appropriately utilize glucose monitoring machine to collect and document appropriate glucose readings for assigned veteran - Maintains a positive therapeutic relationships by displaying respect for human dignity with patient, families and/or significant others utilizing learned communication skills. - Begins to utilize observation skills for data collection, reporting and recording patient/resident observations - Becoming proficient with maintaining positive therapeutic relationships by displaying respect for human dignity with patient, families and/or significant others utilizing communicati...