Nursing Assistant - Progressive Care - 24 or 36 Hours/Week - Days

About Methodist

Nebraska Methodist Health System is made up of four hospitals in Nebraska and southwest Iowa, more than 30 clinic locations, a nursing and allied health college, and a medical supply distributorship and central laundry facility. From the day Methodist Hospital was chartered in 1891, service to our communities has been a top priority. Financial assistance, health education, outreach to our diverse communities and populations, and other community benefit activities have always been central to our mission.

Job Summary

Location: Methodist Hospital, 8303 Dodge St, Omaha, NE. Work schedule: 24 or 36 hours per week, 6:45am to 7:15pm.

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.

Incentives

• Shift differentials & other financial incentives
• Tuition assistance
• Free parking

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.
• Keep 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 retuned to the appropriate room/are 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.

Schedule

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

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Licenses & Certifications

• 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 & Abilities

• 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.

Physical Requirements

• Medium Work - Exerting up to 50 pounds of force.
• 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

• 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
• Occasionally (34%-66%): Physical hazards (noise, temperature, lighting, wet floors, outdoors, sharps) (more than ordinary office environment); Equipment/Machinery/Tools; Explosives (pressurized gas); Hazardous Drugs (exposure risks, protective personal equipment required)
• Frequent (67%-100%): Chemical agents (Toxic, Corrosive, Flammable, Latex); Biological agents (primary air born and blood born viruses) (Jobs with Patient contact) (BBF); Mechanical moving parts/vibrations