Nursing Assistant (Community Living Center)

Quick Facts

• Night Shift Nursing Assistant role providing direct care in a community living center.
• Works with licensed nursing staff to deliver preventive, acute, sub-acute, chronic, maintenance, and hospice care.
• Includes tele-sit remote patient monitoring and documentation in the EHR.

Description

Provide hands-on patient/resident assistance and clinical support for Veterans with complex, varying healthcare needs. You will perform ADLs, vital sign and assessment duties, basic procedures under licensed staff direction, infection control, and safety escalation. You will also conduct approved virtual tele-sit monitoring, redirect unsafe behavior, notify bedside staff, and document observations in electronic health records.

Responsibilities

• Assist with ADLs: hygiene, toileting, feeding, mobility.
• Take and independently perform measurements including vital signs and pain assessments; conduct neurological checks, bladder scans, and oxygen monitoring.
• Perform non-complex procedures such as specimen collection and simple dressing changes with minimal supervision.
• Support safe patient handling and complex mobility using lift equipment and weight-bearing assistance.
• Recognize and promptly report changes in patient/resident condition.
• Apply infection-control principles (airborne, contact, droplet isolation) and participate in fall-prevention and skin-integrity programs.
• Perform tele-sit remote monitoring: monitor for unsafe behaviors, provide voice redirection, escalate for in-person intervention, and ensure camera/privacy/confidentiality readiness.
• Collect, label, and process routine specimens (urine, stool, sputum) per policy.
• Provide basic wound care support (simple dressing changes) under licensed staff direction.
• Assist with specialized equipment and support patient transport.
• Document accurately in the EHR, including monitoring activities, behavioral observations, interventions, malfunctions, and risk changes.
• Support admissions, transfers, and discharges (vitals, orientation, belongings transfer, escorting, transport coordination, ADL needs) and provide timely reports to unit staff.

Benefits

• Competitive pay with regular salary increases.
• Paid time off: 37–50 days annual paid time off per year (annual leave, sick leave, and federal holidays).
• Parental leave after 12 months (up to 12 weeks paid).
• Child care subsidy after 60 days for eligible full-time employees.
• Retirement: federal pension and federal 401(k) with up to 5% contributions.
• Insurance: federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care options.
• Comprehensive federal benefits package (eligibility depends on position type).