CNA / Nurse Tech - Medical Specialties / Adult Medical - Part-time
About The Position
MU Health Care is seeking a compassionate and motivated Nurse Tech to join the Medical Specialties team. The role provides direct patient care and support to adult patients with a wide range of acute and chronic medical conditions, including pneumonia, sepsis, diabetes, infectious diseases, and other complex illnesses. Working with nurses, physicians, and other healthcare team members, the Nurse Tech assists with activities of daily living, patient transport, meal delivery, and routine patient care needs. The position supports patient well-being, responds promptly to patient needs, and helps provide a safe, positive, patient-centered experience. Medical Specialties is a 55-bed unit with east and west wings serving patients aged 18 and older. The unit primarily admits patients with acute episodes or chronic conditions that do not require a more specialized unit. The environment offers exposure to a broad range of illnesses and patient demographics, with opportunities to develop disease-process knowledge, time management, and critical-thinking skills in a culture emphasizing teamwork, shared decision-making, communication, trust, continuous learning, and professional growth. This is an on-site, part-time position at University Hospital in Columbia, Missouri. Shifts are 12 hours only: either one shift per week (12 hours) or two shifts per week (24 hours), scheduled 0700–1930 or 1900–0730. The base pay range is $16.68–$26.31 per hour, based on experience. Weekend and night shifts each receive an additional $2.00 per hour differential.
Requirements
- Meet at least one of the following qualifications: be enrolled in a professional or practical nursing education program and have completed or be expected to complete a Fundamentals of Nursing course within 90 days; hold CNA certification or be registered for the CNA exam; provide proof of Patient Care Technician (PCT) certification; have direct patient-care experience within the past three years as a medical assistant, nursing assistant, emergency medical technician, or surgical technician; have completed within the past three years, or be expected to complete within 180 days, a UAP training program and clinical log demonstrating 100 hours of patient-care experience; be a nursing licensure candidate unsuccessful on state licensure examinations within the past three years; or have completed a nursing program outside the United States and be awaiting licensure examination in this country.
- Ability to meet the position’s physical demands, including ambulating, reaching, and moving objects weighing up to and over 20 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Ability to work rotating shifts, holidays, and during inclement weather.
Nice To Haves
- Additional license or certification requirements as determined by the hiring department.
Responsibilities
- Assist nursing and ancillary staff with transferring patients between beds, stretchers, and wheelchairs.
- Pick up and deliver patient meal trays and assist with patient feeding as directed.
- Organize workload and manage multiple tasks while maintaining a clutter-free and orderly environment.
- Answer unit telephones promptly and accurately deliver messages and information to patients, families, visitors, staff, and personnel upon request.
- Educate and train new staff members in the responsibilities of the Care Team Associate role.
- Perform duties delegated by nursing staff and unit management in routine and emergent situations.
- Reposition patients; place and remove patient equipment; provide daily hygiene care and simple non-sterile dressing changes; perform finger-stick glucose checks; and, when applicable, obtain blood samples by venipuncture.
- Maintain quality-control checks and deliver or retrieve laboratory specimens and supplies as requested.
- Enter information accurately and promptly into the bed-management system.
- Respond promptly to patient call lights and address patient needs using positive guest-relations skills.
- Obtain and document patient vital signs, intake, output, height, and weight as directed.
- Complete unit- or department-specific duties outlined in department documents.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
