Nursing Assistant - Older Adult/Geriatric Med Surg - 24 or 36 Hours/Week - Days

At Nebraska Methodist Health System, we focus on providing exceptional care to the communities we serve and people we employ. We call it The Meaning of Care – a culture that has and will continue to set us apart. It’s helping families grow by making each delivery special, conveying a difficult diagnosis with a compassionate touch, going above and beyond for a patient’s needs, or giving a high five when a patient beats a disease or conquers a personal health challenge. We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits and a great work environment where all employees are valued! Most importantly, our employees are part of a team that makes a real difference in the communities we live and work in.

About the role

Location: Methodist Hospital, 8303 Dodge St, Omaha, NE

Helps patients by supporting personal hygiene and daily living needs; providing comfort, transportation, and vital sign monitoring. Helps patients by cleaning and preparing treatment space while ensuring patient safety.

Responsibilities

• Provides appropriate care specific to the age of the customer/patient, to ensure understanding and comfort level of treatment, as outlined in the Age Specific Criteria.
• Gives individualized customer service/patient care. Completes age specific competency assessment.
• Exhibits excellent interpersonal relations with patients, co-workers, physicians, and guests to ensure effective communications.
  • Responds to patient needs promptly and courteously.
  • Obtains feedback from patients and visitors regarding their hospital experience.
  • Communicates patient issues to the appropriate staff.
  • Maintains a positive attitude while responding to requests in a timely and accurate manner.
  • Communicates with other members of the health care team (food service, secretaries, housekeeping, etc.) as indicated.
  • Actively participates in report process.
• Completes clinical activities identified in the patient's plan of care to meet patients' comfort/activity/sleep needs and other clinical patient needs as delegated by professional staff.
  • Reports patient comfort needs to nurse in a timely manner.
  • Assures that skin is clean and dry. Reports any noticed skin changes.
  • Provides personal care and assists with ADL (activities of daily living).
  • Provides assistance with repositioning, turning and chair transfers.
  • Assists as necessary with ambulation.
  • Completes vital signs per patient's plan of care.
  • Weighs patients per patient's plan of care.
  • Reinforce patient education.
  • Provides transportation assistance.
  • Reports any variation from patient's plan of care to professional staff.
  • Attends to patient amenities; e.g., newspaper, mail.
• Documents all data collected, in Cerner and/or on worksheets, accurately, completely, and in a timely manner to provide an accurate record of patient activities and response to activities.
  • Documentation is completed in an ongoing basis prior to end of shift.
  • Documentation reflects patient's responses to activities according to patient's plan of care.
  • Documentation reflects care delivered.
• Provides housekeeping activities to contribute to a safe, efficient, effective and sanitary patient care environment.
  • Completes daily room cleaning according to established procedures for high dusting, vacuuming, mopping hard surface floors, disinfecting vertical surfaces, and spot cleaning vertical surfaces.
  • Keeps rooms neat and tidy, free of clutter.
  • Removes trash and soiled linen from room each shift and as needed.
  • Maintains patient environment, such as spills and room temperature, or actively utilizes Integrated Services team to do so properly.
  • Distributes linens to servitors per par levels.
  • Straightens and restocks patient care areas per par levels.
  • Attends to patient amenities; e.g., newspapers, mail, watering plants.
• Consistently recognizes and utilizes measures to provide for safe, efficient, patient care and work environment.
  • Answers Call Lights in a timely manner and response to the patient request and/or relays request to appropriate resource when necessary.
  • Performs other duties as delegated/under the direction of the professional staff.
  • Assures coverage of all duties when self or other staff are off the nursing unit.
  • Assists other team members when own work is complete.
  • Appropriately reports incidents.
  • Utilizes Standard Precautions and Transmission-based Precautions infection control techniques correctly and consistently.
• Directly responsible to the staff nurse and assists in the care of the patient by performing delegated activities utilizing the reciprocal process of the 4 Rights of Delegation.
  • Right task (within the scope of practice, according to the job description, and based on the desired outcome, task routine, non-complex, low risk and predictable outcome).
  • Right person (assess competency by certification/licensure, job description, skills checklist, demonstrated skill).
  • Right communication (clear, concise, correct, complete).
  • Right feedback: The Reciprocal Process (timely, specific, checkpoints).
• Prepares exam rooms and equipment to facilitate treatment and examination of patients by setting up instruments/equipment and supplies.
  • Prepares exam rooms and medical equipment according to provider protocol 95% of the time.
  • Rooms are cleaned and prepped in a timely manner.
  • Independently manages all sterilization needs for department by working with sterile processing and ensures all equipment is returned to the appropriate room/area within acceptable times.
• Maintains work areas to ensure healthy environment conditions by cleaning and organizing equipment, rooms and work spaces.
  • Organizes and maintains all clinical care stock.
  • Organizes, cleans, and restocks clinical care areas independently.
  • Keeps supplies up to date.
• Covers the front reception area as directed.
  • Serves as back up office assistant.
  • Answers phone professionally and utilizes message center as appropriate and accurately transcribes messages for providers from patients.
  • Assist with intake, scheduling, and other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• High School diploma or General Educational Development (GED) preferred.
• Completion of first clinical rotation as Nursing Assistant preferred.
• Successful completion of the 75-hour state approved Nurse Assistant course or 6 months Nurse Assistant experience required.
• Will consider high school students 16 years or older who have completed the above requirements.
• Previous customer service, cleaning, food service and/or patient related experience preferred.
• One to three months on the job experience to learn hospital procedures and work routines preferred.
• Previous experience in patient care setting such as hospital, clinic or nursing home preferred.
• Previous experience with direct patient contact preferred.
• Orientation and on the job experience will be provided to learn hospital procedures and work routines.
• Current American Heart Association or American Red Cross Basic Life Support (BLS) strongly preferred at time of hire, required within 3 months of hire.

Skills

• Require the ability to understand and carry out instructions, follow schedules, communicate information, read simple and clear instructions and complete reports.
• Must be able to collect, record, and report patient needs to the appropriate caregiver.
• Requires ability to demonstrate critical thinking skills commensurate with job description.
• Participate in mandatory in-services and continuing education programs as mandated by policies and procedures/external agencies and as directed by supervisor.

Benefits

Ask your recruiter/hiring manager about the following incentives that may be available for this position:

• Sign-on bonus
• Shift differentials & other financial incentives
• Tuition assistance
• Academic sponsorship with Methodist College
• Free parking

Schedule

24 or 36 hours per week, 6:45am to 7:15pm

Physical Requirements

Weight Demands: Medium Work - Exerting up to 50 pounds of force.

Physical Activity:

• Occasionally Performed (1%-33%):
  • Climbing
  • Crawling
  • Kneeling
  • Sitting
• Frequently Performed (34%-66%):
  • Balancing
  • Carrying
  • Crouching
  • Distinguish colors
  • Keyboarding/typing
  • Lifting
  • Pulling/Pushing
  • Repetitive Motions
  • Stooping/bending
  • Twisting
• Constantly Performed (67%-100%):
  • Grasping
  • Hearing
  • Reaching
  • Seeing/Visual
  • Speaking/talking
  • Standing
  • Walking

Job Hazards

• Not Related
• Electrical Shock/Static
• Radiation Non-Ionizing (Ultraviolet, visible light, infrared and microwaves that causes injuries to tissue or thermal or photochemical means)
• Rare (1-33%):
  • Radiation Alpha, Beta and Gamma (particles such as X-Ray, Cat Scan, Gamma Knife, etc)
  • Radiation Non-Ionizing (Ultraviolet, visible light, infrared and microwaves that causes injuries to tissue or thermal or photochemical means) - NICU only