Nursing Assistant - Surgical Short Stay - 24 or 36 Hours/Week - Days
Nebraska Methodist Health System · Omaha, NE · 1 mo ago
HealthcareFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually the posting includes "Why work for Nebraska Methodist Health System?" which is like a description. We need to use for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections when posting has real specific content.
We need to preserve all substantive info, remove boilerplate (cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions). Also remove "Ask your recruiter/hiring manager about the following incentives..." maybe that's part of Benefits? It mentions shift differentials, tuition assistance, free parking. Those are benefits. So we can include Benefits section.
Pay: Not explicitly stated; they say "competitive pay" but that's vague. The rule: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. "competitive pay" is not a specific amount; it's vague. Should we include Pay? Probably not, because it's not specific. The rule: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD"). "competitive pay" is similar to vague; better to omit Pay section.
Schedule: They have "Work Schedule: 24 or 36 hours per week, 6:45am to 7:15pm". That's specific. So include Schedule section.
Benefits: They mention shift differentials & other financial incentives, tuition assistance, free parking. Also "competitive pay, excellent benefits and a great work environment". But we have specific benefits: shift differentials, tuition assistance, free parking. So include Benefits.
Responsibilities: There's a big list under "Responsibilities Essential Functions". So include Responsibilities.
Requirements: There's "Job Requirements Education", "Experience", "License/Certifications". So include Requirements (maybe combine education, experience, license). Could also have Qualifications separate but we can just use Requirements.
Skills: There's "Skills/Knowledge/Abilities". So include Skills.
About the role: The initial "Why work for Nebraska Methodist Health System?" plus Job Summary location etc. Could be About the role. We'll include About the role.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no markdown fences.
We need to use
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections when posting has real specific content.
We need to preserve all substantive info, remove boilerplate (cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions). Also remove "Ask your recruiter/hiring manager about the following incentives..." maybe that's part of Benefits? It mentions shift differentials, tuition assistance, free parking. Those are benefits. So we can include Benefits section.
Pay: Not explicitly stated; they say "competitive pay" but that's vague. The rule: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. "competitive pay" is not a specific amount; it's vague. Should we include Pay? Probably not, because it's not specific. The rule: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD"). "competitive pay" is similar to vague; better to omit Pay section.
Schedule: They have "Work Schedule: 24 or 36 hours per week, 6:45am to 7:15pm". That's specific. So include Schedule section.
Benefits: They mention shift differentials & other financial incentives, tuition assistance, free parking. Also "competitive pay, excellent benefits and a great work environment". But we have specific benefits: shift differentials, tuition assistance, free parking. So include Benefits.
Responsibilities: There's a big list under "Responsibilities Essential Functions". So include Responsibilities.
Requirements: There's "Job Requirements Education", "Experience", "License/Certifications". So include Requirements (maybe combine education, experience, license). Could also have Qualifications separate but we can just use Requirements.
Skills: There's "Skills/Knowledge/Abilities". So include Skills.
About the role: The initial "Why work for Nebraska Methodist Health System?" plus Job Summary location etc. Could be About the role. We'll include About the role.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID.
We need to output only HTML fragment, no markdown fences.
We need to use for each section heading, then content:
for prose,
- for lists. We need to preserve all substantive info; do not invent or summarize away detail. We need to remove duplicated lines, boilerplate. Let's extract content. First, "Why work for Nebraska Methodist Health System? 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." We can put that as About the role prose. Job Summary Location: Methodist Hospital Address: 8303 Dodge St, Omaha, NE Work Schedule: 24 or 36 hours per week, 6:45am to 7:15pm We could include location in About the role or maybe separate? But we have Schedule section for schedule; location could be in About the role. Now Responsibilities: The big list under "Responsibilities Essential Functions". We need to capture each bullet as
- . The text is long sentences; we can break into items per sentence? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we should treat each distinct duty as a list item. The original is a paragraph with many sentences separated by periods. We'll split into items per sentence (or per distinct duty). We'll try to capture each duty.
Let's list duties from that section:
- 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.
That's a lot. We'll keep them as list items.
Now Requirements: Education, Experience, License/Certifications.
Education: "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."
Experience: "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."
License/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."
We can combine into Requirements section with subpoints? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can list each requirement as
- . Could group education, experience, license as separate items.
Now Skills: "Skills/Knowledge/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."
We can break into list items.
Physical Requirements etc. Might be considered part of Requirements? But we have no specific section for Physical Requirements; we could include under Requirements as well. However the instruction only mentions certain headings; we can add extra sections if needed? It says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Probably we should stick to those headings. Physical Requirements could be part of Requirements. Job Hazards etc. Could be omitted as not required? Might be considered part of Requirements? But it's not typical. Might be considered boilerplate? It's detailed safety info. Might be considered substantive. But we have no heading for Hazards; we could include under Requirements as well. However to keep sections few, we could incorporate into Requirements. But we must preserve ALL substantive information. If we omit hazards, we lose info. So we need to include it somewhere. Could add a section "Requirements" and include sublist for Physical Requirements and Job Hazards. That's okay. Now Benefits: shift differentials & other financial incentives, tuition assistance, free parking. Also "competitive pay, excellent benefits and a great work environment" but we already have benefits list. Schedule: "Work Schedule: 24 or 36 hours per week, 6:45am to 7:15pm". Also earlier "Helps patients by supporting personal hygiene and daily living needs;
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we should treat each distinct duty as a list item. The original is a paragraph with many sentences separated by periods. We'll split into items per sentence (or per distinct duty). We'll try to capture each duty.
Let's list duties from that section:
- 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.
That's a lot. We'll keep them as list items.
Now Requirements: Education, Experience, License/Certifications.
Education: "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."
Experience: "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."
License/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."
We can combine into Requirements section with subpoints? The instruction: Use