Nurse Tech, Med Surg, Capital Region Medical Center – Nights

University of Missouri Health Care • Jefferson City, MO

2d • $16 - $25 • Onsite

About The Position

MU Health Care is seeking a dynamic and compassionate Nurse Tech to join the Med Surg Unit at Capital Region Medical Center. The Nurse Tech supports patient well-being by helping provide comfort, dignity, and timely responses to patient needs while working with patients, families, nursing staff, and other members of the health care team. The role requires empathy, organization, multitasking, and the ability to work in a fast-paced setting.

This is an on-site position at Capital Region Medical Center in Jefferson City, Missouri. The schedule is nights, with a rotating pattern of two 12-hour shifts one week and three 12-hour shifts the next, including rotating weekends. The health care facility operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year; rotating shifts, holidays, and work during inclement weather are required. Base pay is $15.81–$24.92 per hour, based on experience, with an additional $2.00 per hour for evening, night, and weekend shifts.

The Nurse Tech assists nursing and ancillary staff with patient transfers, meals, hygiene, positioning, and other delegated care. Duties also include responding to call lights, collecting and documenting directed patient measurements and vital signs, performing certain basic patient-care procedures, maintaining an orderly environment, and entering information into the computerized bed-management system. The role may include training new Care Team Associate staff and performing other duties delegated by nursing staff or unit management.

Candidates must meet at least one of the listed qualification pathways, including enrollment in a nursing education program with the required Fundamentals of Nursing coursework, CNA status or exam registration, PCT certification, qualifying recent direct patient-care experience, completion or pending completion of a qualifying UAP program, recent unsuccessful nursing licensure examination, or completion of a nursing program outside the United States while awaiting licensure examination in this country.

Requirements

• Meet at least one of the following qualification pathways: be enrolled in a professional or practical nursing education program and have completed or be expected to complete a Fundamentals of Nursing course within 90 days; hold CNA status or be registered for the CNA examination; provide proof of PCT certification; have direct patient-care experience within the past three years as a medical assistant, nursing assistant, emergency medical technician, or surgical technician; have completed within the last three years, or be expected 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 who was unsuccessful on state licensure examinations within the past three years; or have completed a nursing program outside the United States and be awaiting the licensure examination in this country.
• Ability to meet the physical demands of a very active role, including ambulating, reaching, and moving objects weighing up to and over 20 pounds.
• Ability to work rotating shifts, rotating weekends, holidays, and during inclement weather.
• Ability to work in a health care facility and routinely come into contact with patients who may have contagious illnesses.

Nice To Haves

• Additional license or certification requirements as determined by the hiring department.

Responsibilities

• Assist nursing and ancillary staff with transferring patients 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 upon request.
• Educate and train new staff members in Care Team Associate responsibilities.
• Perform other duties delegated by nursing staff and unit management in routine and emergent situations.
• Reposition patients; place and remove patient equipment; provide daily hygiene care and simple non-sterile dressing changes; perform finger-stick glucose checks; and, when applicable, perform venipuncture to obtain blood samples.
• Maintain quality-control checks and deliver or retrieve laboratory specimens and supplies as requested.
• Enter information accurately and promptly into the computerized 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 outlined in department documents.

Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance coverage starting day one.
• Generous paid leave and paid time off, including ten holidays.
• Multiple retirement options, including 100% matching up to 8% and full vesting in three years.
• Tuition assistance for employees (75%) and immediate family members (50%).
• Discounts on cell phone plans, rental cars, gyms, hotels, and more.

What This Job Offers

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