Float Pool CNA
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 each patient’s plan of care as part of an interdisciplinary team. The role calls for a spirit of service, strong communication, attention to detail, and a commitment to dignified, high-quality healthcare. You provide personal care and hygiene, physical comfort, and other support suited to your skills, scope of practice, and patient acuity. You prepare patients, equipment, and supplies for procedures and examinations; perform, monitor, report, and document clinical activities within your scope; and report changes in patient condition to the RN. You also assist with patient admission, discharge, and transfer; maintain supplies and equipment; and help keep the work and patient environment safe.
Requirements
- Completion of an accredited Nursing Assistant program upon hire, or military medical specialty training.
- Washington Certified Nursing Assistant credential upon hire.
- Basic Life Support (CPR) upon hire.
Nice To Haves
- Six months of related work experience.
- Experience in a hospital setting.
Responsibilities
- Provide patient personal care and hygiene, 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’ primary personal needs and comfort, consistent with skills, ability, scope-of-practice limitations, and patient acuity.
- Prepare patients, equipment, and supplies for specific procedures and examinations.
- Perform, monitor, report, and document clinical activities within scope of practice.
- Observe and report changes in patient condition to the RN.
- Obtain labels and transport samples and blood products, including urine, stool, and sputum specimens.
- Provide patient information to nursing staff for the interdisciplinary plan of care and document relevant patient data according to work unit standards.
- Assist nursing staff with patient admission, discharge, and transfer, including handling belongings, providing personal care and 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 in the system, tag equipment, and remove it from service.
- Maintain a safe work and patient environment in accordance with hospital safety, risk management, regulatory, and infection-prevention standards.
- Participate in quality assurance and improvement initiatives and activities as requested, and participate in growth opportunities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
