Nurse Tech, Progressive Care Unit, Capital Region Medical Center – FT Days
About The Position
MU Health Care is seeking a compassionate and organized Nurse Tech to join the Progressive Care Unit at Capital Region Medical Center in Jefferson City, Missouri. The role supports patient well-being by helping provide comfort, dignity, and timely responses to patients’ needs while working with patients, families, and the healthcare team in a fast-paced clinical setting. The position is on-site and scheduled for day shifts, three 12-hour shifts per week, with 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. The base pay range is $15.81–$24.92 per hour based on experience, with an additional $2.00 per hour for evening, night, and weekend shifts. MU Health Care describes its workplace as inspired, collaborative, and focused on saving and improving lives. It is an academic health system in mid-Missouri with seven hospitals and more than 90 specialty clinics.
Requirements
- Be enrolled in a professional or practical nursing education program and have completed, or be expected to complete within 90 days, a Fundamentals of Nursing course; or meet one of the listed alternative qualifications.
- Alternative qualifications include CNA certification or CNA exam registration; proof of Patient Care Technician certification; direct patient-care experience within the past three years as a medical assistant, nursing assistant, emergency medical technician, or surgical technician; completion within the past three years or expected completion within 180 days of a UAP training program with a clinical log demonstrating 100 hours of patient-care experience; being a nursing licensure candidate unsuccessful on state licensure examinations within the past three years; or completion of a nursing program outside the United States while awaiting the U.S. licensure examination.
- Ability to meet the position’s physical demands, including ambulating, reaching, and moving objects weighing up to and over 20 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Ability to work in a health care facility and routinely come into contact with patients who may have contagious illnesses.
- Availability for rotating shifts, holidays, and work during inclement weather.
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 and 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 the responsibilities of the Care Team Associate role.
- Perform 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, as 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 on day one.
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
