Nursing Assistant (CNA) - Orthopedics

Fairview Health Services•Woodbury, MN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Fairview is hiring a Nursing Assistant (CNA) at Woodwinds Hospital in Woodbury, Minnesota. The position is 0.9 FTE (72 hours per two weeks), with 12-hour night shifts, an every-third-weekend rotation (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), and a holiday rotation. The role is on Med Surg/Ortho 3 South, a unit with 26 private rooms serving adults 18 and older. Patients include people having hip, knee, spine, and shoulder surgeries, as well as general medical-surgical and orthopedic patients. The average patient stay is 1–3 days. The Nursing Assistant supports the professional nurse or caregiver in delivering patient care, transporting patients and equipment, preparing and maintaining patient rooms, and restocking supplies. The role works under the direction of a professional nurse and is not autonomous. Patient care assignments may be made based on unit needs and the discretion of the manager or charge nurse.

Requirements

Basic Life Support (BLS for Healthcare Providers) certification through the American Red Cross or American Heart Association–Healthcare Provider; OnTrack participants must be able to obtain certification upon completing the program.
Meet one of the following qualifications: six months of recent direct-care experience in a long-term, home-care, or acute-care setting; current enrollment in an LPN, RN, or Nurse Practitioner program and completion of one semester of clinical rotation; current certification on the Minnesota Nursing Assistant Registry upon hire; or successful completion of Fairview’s OnTrack Nursing Assistant training program.

Responsibilities

Provide basic patient care, including grooming, bathing, toileting, feeding, skin care, oral hygiene, specimen collection and testing, positioning, ambulation, and changing linens.
Partner with the patient caregiver in care and decision-making.
Promptly answer call lights.
Assist the nurse in monitoring patient condition.
Accurately take and record weights, intake and output, blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respiration, and oxygen saturation.
Place patients on and remove them from monitors or other equipment.
Report unusual findings to the RN in a timely manner.
Assist with patient admissions, transfers, and discharges.
Orient patients and families to the environment.
Ensure patient belongings are accounted for and documented at admission, transfer, and discharge.
Transport patients and/or equipment, set up and maintain patient rooms, and reorder and stock supplies.