Nurse Tech / CNA - Adult Overflow Unit - Days
About The Position
MU Health Care is seeking a dedicated Nurse Tech to support patient care on the Adult Overflow Unit. The role assists with patient transfers, meal delivery and feeding, daily care, medical checks, and prompt responses to patient needs. It also helps maintain an orderly and efficient environment, provides accurate information and messages, and trains new staff in Care Team Associate responsibilities. The Adult Overflow Unit is a 10-bed unit for floor-status patients transferred from the ICU, surgery, and Emergency Department. Patients commonly have shortness of breath, COPD, AFIB, weakness, post-surgical recovery needs, or comfort-care needs. The unit team includes two nurses, one nurse tech, and a Core Charge nurse who also supports the Medical Bridge unit. This is a full-time day position working 36 hours per week across three 12-hour shifts. The schedule includes every other weekend and a holiday track. The position is in a health care facility open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and requires rotating shifts, holidays, and work during inclement weather.
Requirements
- Meet one of the following qualifications: be enrolled in a professional or practical nursing education program and have completed or be scheduled to complete a Fundamentals of Nursing course within 90 days; be a Certified Nursing Assistant or registered for the CNA exam; provide proof of Patient Care Technician certification; have direct patient-care experience within the past three years as a nursing assistant, emergency medical technician, or surgical technician; have completed within the last three years or be scheduled to complete within 180 days a UAP training program with a 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 physical demands of the job, including ambulating, reaching, and moving objects weighing up to and over 20 pounds.
- 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 patient transfers 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, orderly environment.
- Answer unit telephones promptly and accurately deliver messages and information to patients, families, visitors, staff, and personnel.
- Educate and train new staff members in Care Team Associate responsibilities.
- Perform duties delegated by nursing staff and unit management in routine and emergent situations.
- Change patient positions; place and remove patient equipment; provide daily hygiene care and simple non-sterile dressing changes.
- Perform finger-stick glucose checks and, as permitted, venipuncture to obtain blood samples.
- Maintain quality control checks and deliver or retrieve lab 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 as outlined in department documents.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
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