Float Pool CNA

CommonSpirit Health • Tacoma, WA

3d

About The Position

As a Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA), you provide essential patient care under RN direction, contributing to patients’ comfort, safety, and recovery. You deliver compassionate basic care, assist with patient transport, and contribute to patient care plans as part of an interdisciplinary team. The role calls for a spirit of service, strong communication, meticulous patient support, and commitment to dignified, high-quality healthcare.

Requirements

• Completion of an accredited Nursing Assistant program upon hire, or military medical specialty training.
• Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA): Washington, upon hire.
• Basic Life Support (CPR), upon hire.

Nice To Haves

• Six months of related work experience.
• Experience in a hospital setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide personal care, hygiene, and physical comfort, including feeding, bathing, shaving, dressing, bed making, ambulation, lifting, turning, moving, transferring, skin care, and bowel and bladder elimination.
• Provide additional care to meet patients’ primary personal needs and comfort, based on skill, 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 and report changes in patient condition to the RN.
• Obtain, label, 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 admissions, discharges, and transfers, including handling belongings, providing personal care and comfort items, orienting patients and families, and transporting patients.
• Maintain an organized work environment; order, stock, and replenish supplies and equipment; report supply or equipment problems; and submit repair requests, 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 activities as requested.
• Participate in growth opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed