Nursing Assistant - Sample Collection - Prime

Description

Job Summary: Performs duties exclusive to nursing assistants in patient care, adhering to biosafety standards in laboratory, SADT, and inpatient settings. Key Highlights: 1. Operations across multiple areas: laboratory, SADT (Diagnostic Support Services), and inpatient care. 2. Focus on patient safety and biosafety. 3. Variety of procedures and nursing care activities. Perform all duties exclusive to nursing assistants in patient care, in compliance with biosafety norms and procedures. **Responsibilities and Duties** Laboratory: * Identify beneficiaries using official identification documents and test requisitions. * Verify personal data on the beneficiary's identification wristband (Safe Identification). * Collect blood using sterile devices or needles, as well as receive other biological materials. \- Correctly label samples, meeting Goal 01 \- Patient Safety. * Confirm identification on collection tubes with the beneficiary. * Forward properly identified biological materials to the designated technical area. * Use internal cooperative information systems. * Receive, verify, and store collection materials, observing their expiration dates. * Maintain organization of collection booths and the work sector. SADT: * Provide comprehensive care to assigned patients according to the care plan, addressing hygiene, privacy, comfort, humanization, and safety needs, per established protocols. * Confirm full patient identification. * Prepare and administer medications to clients (excluding contrast agents) and perform low-complexity procedures per medical prescription. * Assist nurses and medical staff as required, within defined responsibilities. * Comply with Clinical and Patient Safety Protocols. * Observe, recognize, and describe signs and symptoms; document nursing notes and report changes. * Instruct and prepare patients and/or companions for examinations; confirm patient identity and collect relevant information for examination execution. * Prepare and organize procedure rooms. * Perform internal transfers together with transport assistants to the destination unit; accompany patient transportation. * Ensure continuity of care through shift handover and receipt. * Record in medical records, noting date, time, interventions, and/or patient incidents. * Assist in organizing medical records, maintaining all documents in chronological order. * Record pending issues related to patients, as well as other necessary information, in the Incident Logbook for team awareness. * Prepare and maintain materials required for medical and nursing activities. * Comply with the prohibition on wearing jewelry in the workplace. Inpatient Care: * Prepare patients for consultations, examinations, and treatments. * Observe, recognize, and describe vital signs and symptoms, within the scope of one’s qualification. * Carry out specifically prescribed or routine treatments, as well as other nursing activities. * Prepare and administer medications via oral, topical, intradermal, subcutaneous, intramuscular, intravenous, and rectal routes per medical prescription. * Perform peripheral venous puncture using aseptic techniques. * Provide hygiene and comfort measures to patients as needed, including bed baths, oral hygiene, and intimate hygiene, etc. * Monitor fluid balance. * Perform simple and/or low-complexity dressings. * Administer oxygen therapy, nebulization, enteroclysis, enema, and heat or cold applications. * Monitor patients and contacts of transmissible diseases. * Provide pre- and post-operative nursing care. * Implement infection control and prevention measures. * Follow medical and nursing care prescriptions. * Immobilize patients upon medical and/or nursing guidance. * Perform low-level disinfection activities. * Document nursing notes in electronic medical records. * Participate in safety huddles, responding promptly to requests from immediate supervisors to ensure continuity of departmental activities and patient safety. * Provide post-mortem care. * Provide hygiene and comfort care to patients and safeguard patient safety. * Feed patients or assist them with feeding. * Conduct hourly rounds, monitoring departmental incidents for documentation in medical records. * Control and return MAT/MED (materials and medications) dispensed by the pharmacy. * Use personal protective equipment (PPE) to ensure one’s own and the patient’s safety. * Remove and dispose of service-related waste in appropriate locations. * Safeguard, maintain, preserve, and clean work equipment, tools, and materials. * Work in accordance with good practices, safety norms, and procedures. * Attend meetings when summoned. * Comply with scheduled training and development programs. * Adhere to norms and procedures regarding uniform use, time clock registration, working hours, shift schedules, vacation planning, etc. * Develop and suggest workflow processes and adopt optimization and rationalization measures to improve team and interdepartmental activities. * Report any irregularities or suspected fraud to management. * Inform supervisors about actions and activities carried out within one’s area of responsibility. * Perform other related duties, as determined by operational unit requirements, job nature, and work location/subsystem, per superior instruction. **Requirements and Qualifications** Required: * Completed Nursing Assistant course and ACTIVE registration with the professional regulatory council. * Experience in healthcare; internship experience may be considered. Unimed is the world’s largest healthcare cooperative and also Brazil’s largest medical assistance network, present in 83% of the national territory. The system originated with the founding of Unimed Santos (SP) by Dr. Edmundo Castilho in 1967 and currently comprises 368 medical cooperatives, serving over 19 million clients and 73,000 companies nationwide. Unimed clients have access to over 110,000 physicians, 3\.244 accredited hospitals, as well as emergency care centers, laboratories, ambulances, and owned/accredited hospitals to guarantee quality medical, hospital, and complementary diagnostic services. In addition to holding 34% of the national health plan market, Unimed enjoys strong brand recall among Brazilians. According to a national survey by Datafolha Institute, Unimed has been the Top of Mind brand in the health plan category for 21 consecutive years. Another highlight is the “Most Trusted Health Plan” award, received for the 11th consecutive year in the “Trusted Brands” survey. * We are 344 Cooperatives * 116,000 physician cooperators * 17 million beneficiaries * 2\.445 accredited hospitals * 119 owned hospitals In addition to emergency care centers, laboratories, ambulances, and accredited hospitals to guarantee quality medical, hospital, and complementary diagnostic services.