Health Care Assistant (CNA), Surgical Specialty Transplant Unit

Responsibilities

• Affords assistance to patients with feeding, drinking, ambulation, grooming, toileting, dressing, socialization, and unit-specific technical skills.
• Supports the education and teaching of patients/significant others as directed by professional care providers.
• Collects, reports, and documents data related to direct patient care activities.
• Engages in indirect patient care activities such as maintaining a clean, efficient, and safe patient care environment, performing companion care, managing housekeeping tasks, transporting patients, and accompanying physicians during examinations and procedures.
• Performs unit-specific duties and additional clerical tasks as needed, including stocking and maintaining supplies, communicating with hospital staff, processing paper and electronic orders, scheduling appointments, managing admits, discharges, and transfers, monitoring the cardiac monitor, and observing for abnormal heart rhythms.
• Works rotating schedules, including nights, weekends, and holidays, to meet the staffing and patient care demands of a 24/7 complex health system.

Requirements

• Available to work variable and rotating shifts, including nights, weekends, and holidays, in a 24/7 patient care environment.
• Capable of performing essential functions as outlined above.
• Displays human relations and effective communication skills.
• Exhibits customer service skills.
• Capable of functioning in a busy environment.
• Skilled in using a multi-line phone system and hospital paging system.
• Capable of initiating appropriate actions in emergency/crisis situations.

Qualifications

• For those enrolled in a nursing program, must obtain an RN license within three months of completion of the program, or obtain a CNA certification if remaining in the job code longer than three months.
• Licenses Required: Current RQI Healthcare Provider eCredential through the University of Utah Health RQI system, obtained within 30 days of hire. One of the following licenses: Current certification as a Nursing Assistant with the State of Utah or completion of first round of clinical and current enrollment in an approved nursing education program.
• Additional license requirements as determined by the hiring department.