Float Pool CNA
About The Position
As a Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA), you will provide essential patient support under RN direction, contributing to patient comfort, safety, and recovery. You will deliver compassionate basic care, assist with patient transport, and contribute to patients’ plans of care as part of an interdisciplinary team, upholding high standards of conduct and patient well-being. The role provides personal care, hygiene, and physical comfort to assigned patients, prepares patients and supplies for procedures and examinations, and performs, monitors, reports, and documents clinical activities within the scope of practice. It also supports patient admission, discharge, and transfer; maintains supplies and equipment and a neat work environment; follows safety, risk management, regulatory, and infection-prevention requirements; and participates in quality improvement and growth opportunities.
Requirements
- Completion of an accredited Nursing Assistant program upon hire, or military medical specialty training.
- Washington Certified Nursing Assistant certification 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, hygiene, and physical comfort, including feeding, bathing, shaving, changing clothes, making beds, ambulating, lifting, turning, moving, transferring, skin care, and bowel and bladder elimination.
- Provide additional care to meet assigned patients’ personal primary needs and comfort, within skill, 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 inclusion in 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 using wheelchairs, stretchers, or patient beds.
- Maintain a neat and organized work environment; order, stock, and replenish supplies and equipment as necessary.
- Identify and report supply or equipment problems; enter equipment repair requests, tag equipment, and remove it from service.
- Maintain a safe work and patient environment and adhere to 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
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
