Nursing Assistant - Progressive Care - Full Time - Nights

About the role

Nebraska Methodist Health System focuses on providing exceptional care to the communities they serve and the people they employ. This includes helping families grow by making each delivery special, conveying difficult diagnoses with compassion, going above and beyond for patient needs, and giving high fives when patients overcome health challenges.

The system offers competitive pay, excellent benefits, and a supportive work environment where all employees are valued. Employees are part of a team that makes a real difference in the communities they live and work in.

Responsibilities

• Provides appropriate care specific to the age of the customer/patient, ensuring 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.
• 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.
• Affirms that skin is clean and dry.
• Reports any noticed skin changes.
• Provides personal care and assists with ADL (activities of daily living).
• Assists as necessary with ambulation.
• Completes vital signs per patient's plan of care.
• Weighs patients per patient's plan of care.
• Reinforces 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.
• Performs 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.
• Straights 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 responds to the patient request or relays request to appropriate resource when necessary.
• Performs other duties as delegated/under the direction of the professional staff.
• Affords coverage of all duties when self or other staff are off the nursing unit.
• Affords assistance to other team members when own work is complete.
• Affordably 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.
• 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.
• Covers the front reception area as directed.
• Serves as backup office assistant.
• Answers phone professionally and utilizes message center as appropriate and accurately transcribes messages for providers from patients.
• Affords other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 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/Knowledge/Abilities

• Ability to understand and carry out instructions, follow schedules, communicate information, read simple and clear instructions and complete reports.
• Ability to demonstrate critical thinking skills commensurate with job description.
• Participation in mandatory in-services and continuing education programs as mandated by policies and procedures/external agencies and as directed by supervisor.

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, Distinguishing Colors, Keyboarding/typing, Lifting, Pulling/Pushing, Repetitive Motions, Stooping/bending, Twisting, Constantly Performed (67%-100%): Grasping, Hearing, Reaching, Seeing/Visual, Speaking/talking, Standing, Walking.
• Equipment/Machinery/Tools: Explosives (pressurized gas), Hazardous Drugs (exposure risks, protective personal equipment required), Mechanical moving parts/vibrations.
• Physical Hazards: Noise, Temperature, Lighting, Wet Floors, Outdoors, Sharps.
• Chemical Agents: Toxic, Corrosive, Flammable, Latex.
• Biological Agents: Primary airborne and blood-born viruses (Jobs with Patient Contact) (BBF).

Benefits

Nebraska Methodist Health System offers competitive pay, excellent benefits, and a great work environment where all employees are valued. Most importantly, employees are part of a team that makes a real difference in the communities they live and work in.

Pay

Details about pay are not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

Work Schedule: 7pm to 7am Full Time: 36 hours per week Night Shift Every Third Weekend (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) Holiday Rotation

Benefits

Details about benefits are not specified in the job posting.