Float CNA

St. Anne Hospital•Burien, WA

1d•$25 - $37

About The Position

As a Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA), you provide essential patient support under RN direction, contributing to patient comfort, safety, and recovery. You deliver compassionate basic care, assist with patient transport, and contribute to the patient’s plan of care as a member of an interdisciplinary team, upholding standards of conduct and patient well-being. The role provides personal care and hygiene, physical comfort, and additional care suited to patient needs and acuity, within the CNA’s skills and scope of practice. You prepare patients, equipment, and supplies for procedures and examinations; perform, monitor, report, and document clinical activities within scope; and report changes in patient condition to the RN. The position also involves obtaining labels and transporting specimens and blood products, sharing patient information with nursing staff, and documenting relevant data according to work-unit standards. You assist nursing staff with admissions, discharges, and transfers, including handling patient belongings, providing personal care and comfort items, orienting patients and families, and transporting patients. You maintain an organized work environment, replenish supplies, report equipment or supply problems, and arrange equipment repairs as needed. You follow safety, risk management, regulatory, and infection-prevention requirements, and participate in quality improvement and growth opportunities.

Requirements

Completion of an accredited Nursing Assistant program, upon hire, or military medical specialty training, upon hire.
Washington Certified Nursing Assistant credential, upon hire.
Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire.

Nice To Haves

Six months of related work experience, upon hire; listed as preferred for applicants with less than one year of experience.
Experience in a hospital setting, upon hire.

Responsibilities

Provide patient personal care, hygiene, and physical comfort, including feeding, bathing, shaving, changing clothes, bed making, ambulation, lifting, turning, moving, transferring, skin care, and bowel and bladder elimination.
Provide additional care to meet assigned patients’ personal needs and comfort, within skills, ability, scope-of-practice limitations, and patient acuity.
Prepare patients, equipment, and supplies for procedures and examinations.
Perform, monitor, report, and document clinical activities within scope of practice.
Observe patients and report changes in condition to the RN.
Obtain labels and transport specimens such as urine, stool, and sputum, as well as blood products.
Provide patient information to nursing staff for the interdisciplinary plan of care and document relevant data according to work-unit standards.
Assist nursing staff with patient admissions, discharges, and transfers, including managing belongings, providing comfort items, orienting patients and families, and transporting patients.
Maintain a neat and organized work environment; order, stock, and replenish supplies and equipment.
Identify and report supply or equipment problems; submit equipment repair requests, tag equipment, and remove it from service.
Maintain a safe work and patient environment in accordance with safety, risk management, regulatory, and infection-prevention standards.
Participate in quality assurance and improvement initiatives and growth opportunities as requested.