Healthcare Tech - Float Pool

About the role

The Nurse Aide I assists in providing patient care under the direct supervision of the Registered Nurse. The role involves performing various personal care tasks, assisting with meals, and monitoring patient health parameters.

Responsibilities

• Performs personal care tasks such as bed baths, tub baths, showering, sitz baths, mouth care, skin care, hair care, and nail care.
• Serves and collects food trays, feeds patients, and records dietary intake.
• Distributes ice, water, and nourishments; measures and records intake and output.
• Avoids and collects specimens (urine, feces, sputum).
• Applies and removes catheters, conducts enemas, and provides perineal and catheter care.
• Maintains suction systems, makes beds, and performs PM care.
• Takes and records vital signs, patient weight, and height; turns and positions patients.
• Monitors patients in restraints for safety, circulation, hydration, and nutrition.
• Assists with postmortem care and provides hand-off communication.
• Documents information related to assigned duties and reports any issues.
• Assists with patient transfers, transfers, and range of motion exercises.
• Initiates or participates in CPR and provides continuous observation.
• Provides instructions to patients and family members as delegated.
• Performs fingerstick for blood glucose monitoring and retrieves blood products.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Completion of an approved Nurse Aide Training Program or student nurses meeting the listing requirements of the DFS Nurse Aide Registry.
• Current listing with the DFS Nurse Aide Registry as a Nurse Aide I.
• Current American Heart Association Basic Cardiac Life Support Healthcare Provider certification.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of growth and development principles applicable to the patient population served.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
• Manual and finger dexterity.

Skills

• Basic patient care skills.
• Effective communication skills.
• Manual dexterity.

Benefits

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards, including:

• Paid time off programs.
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and short- and long-term disability.
• Flexible spending accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses.
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave.
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs.
• Education assistance program.

Pay

$19.80 - $29.70 per hour.

Schedule

Full-time hours with a weekly schedule of 40 hours.