Nurse Assistant Medical

About the role

As our Nurse Assistant, you will help nursing staff deliver individual patient care so they can maintain standards of nursing practice and contribute to a compassionate, healing environment for patients, families, and visitors.

You will provide direct patient care, assist with daily living activities, and ensure patient stability. You will be expected to adhere to St. Alexius Medical Center's mission and values, maintain quality of care according to policies, give personal hygiene assistance, assist with feeding, ambulating, and positioning, monitor vital signs and report changes, respond to call lights, maintain a safe environment, and document actions.

Responsibilities

• Provides patient personal care/hygiene and physical comfort within assigned tasks, including feeding, bathing, shaving, changing clothes, bed making, ambulation, lifting, turning, moving, transferring, enemas, skin care and bowel/bladder elimination.
• Performs, monitors, reports and documents all clinical activities within assigned tasks.
• Assists nursing staff in the admission, discharge and transfer of patient by performing activities such as inventory/storing patient belongings, providing patient with relevant personal care/comfort items, orienting patient/family and transporting patient to room or other location using wheelchairs, stretchers or patient bed.
• Provides patient information to nursing staff for inclusion in the interdisciplinary plan of care; documents relevant patient data in accordance with work unit standards.

Requirements

• A high school diploma or equivalent and ability to comprehend medical terminology.
• Currently listed on a Nurse Assistant Registry operated by the North Dakota Board of Nursing, OR eligible for immediate placement upon hire (per "Eligibility for Employment as Nurse Assistant" policy).

Qualifications

• Ability to organize assignments and work under pressure.
• Obtain Basic Life Support Certification within the orientation period.

Skills

• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Benefits

We are offering a $3000 Sign On Bonus for those who meet eligibility requirements.

Pay

The posted compensation range of $15 - $19.81/hour is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay CommonSpirit in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting.

Schedule

Varies