Student Nurse Trainee (#VJ9 )

$29.22-$29.22 hourly / $5,064.70-$5,064.70 monthly / $60,777.60-$60,777.60 yearly

Applies skills learned in an academic setting in either a detention or clinic setting. In the clinic assignment, skills may include but are not limited to the following:
• Maintains and checks charts and records, and makes referrals and follow-up appointments;
• Coordinates with other agency divisions to schedule tests and other services;
• Answers patients’ questions about procedures, diseases, and medical care concerns;
• Provides informational literature and educates patients on medical care, health issues, and the need for follow-up;
• Provides skilled nursing services, treatments, administers dressings, medications, and immunizations;
• Draws blood, fits orthopedic equipment, irrigates ears, and provides other skilled nursing services;
• Reads TB skin tests;
• Coordinates the blood pressure clinic and the pre-employment and baseline physical examination program;
• Performs audiometry and spirometry testing;
• Keeps test records required by state and federal government;
• Provides counseling for patients, including sexually transmitted disease follow-up;
• Orients clinic physicians, mid-level care providers, and support personnel to specific clinic operations;
• Maintains the emergency cart, medical supplies, and medications;
• Acts as liaison to pharmaceutical representatives, sets up training sessions concerning new drugs, and secures samples; In the detention assignment:
• Assesses medical and mental health conditions and need for treatment of incoming inmates, and refers inmates with critical medical/psychiatric conditions to emergency facilities;
• Takes medical histories, screens for potential medical and emotional problems, assesses physical and mental status, and assists in determining inmate housing assignments
• Responds to emergencies, administers first aid, CPR, and other appropriate emergency measures;
• Coordinates with staff across shifts to ensure continuity of inmate medical care;
• Assesses outpatient housing admissions and discharges;
• Receives, triages, evaluates complaints, examines inmates, and determines medical needs;
• Records, interprets, and reports conditions requiring further treatment;
• Makes referrals to County physicians, psychiatrists, or mid-level practitioners as required;
• Administers prescribed medications in accordance with orders and established protocols;
• Administers over-the-counter medications based on independent evaluation of inmate need;
• Notes and acts upon physician or mid-level practitioner orders;
• Changes bandages, applies dressings, and provides routine treatment;
• Takes measures necessary to control communicable disease;
• Performs venipuncture to obtain blood samples;
• Obtains urine and other routine laboratory samples;
• Assists in routine physical examinations;
• Checks and monitors inmates in outpatient housing units, including vital signs, neurological checks, and overall condition;
• Provides information on health maintenance and disease control;
• Establishes and maintains medical records and care pathways;
• Maintains logs of services and medications, inventories controlled substances, medicines, and supplies;
• Observes and documents effects of medication;
• Orders and picks up medical and other supplies;
• Writes reports.

EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS

Knowledge:

Some knowledge of:

• Professional registered nursing techniques, practices, procedures, and regulation.
• Routine medical/psychological assessment techniques.
• Administration of medications and treatment.
• The uses, effects and adverse reactions to medications and controlled substances.
• Universal precautions consistent with infectious disease control.
• Medical terminology, instruments and equipment.
• Emergency response practices and procedures.
• Accurate charting and medical record keeping practices.
• Interviewing techniques.
• The laws governing registered nursing practice.

Ability to:

• Evaluate and assess health care/medical service needs.
• Provide nursing services in a clinic/detention setting and administer treatments and medications.
• Anticipate physicians and patients’ needs.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Learn clinic routines.
• Deal with sensitivity to the needs of people with different cultural, environmental and social backgrounds.
• Maintain charts and records.
• Apply first aid and CPR as needed.
• Push heavy objects such as Med carts or an occupied wheelchair.
• Rapidly move to and respond to emergency medical situations.
• Distinguish colors of uniforms and armbands to identify inmate access to restricted areas.
• Distinguish verbal and nonverbal sounds in a noisy environment.
• Stand and walk for long periods of time.
• Lift objects weighing up to 16 pounds, such as an emergency bag, portable oxygen tank, and medical Cardex files.
• Apply universal precautions to prevent transmission of communicable disease to self or others.

Education and Experience:

Must have completed the first year Registered Nurse Program at Cabrillo College and have acquired clinic competence in nursing skills as recommended by the supervising nurse instructor for Cabrillo College. No experience is required.

Special Requirements/Conditions:

Must be registered in a work/study course at Cabrillo College.
Possess and maintain a California Class C drivers license from the start of employment.
May only work during Cabrillo College semester/session and within the following limits: May work up to 20 hours per week during the regular semesters and up to 40 hours per week during summer and winter sessions.
In assignments in detention facilities, students will be required to pass a background investigation.
Be physically and mentally capable of performing the classification’s essential functions as summarized in the typical tasks section of this specification.

EST: 11/03 REV: Analyst: GLD