Nursing Assistant (CNA) - Float Pool

Fairview Health Services•Woodbury, MN

12h•Onsite

About The Position

Fairview is hiring a Nursing Assistant for its Float Pool at Woodwinds Hospital in Woodbury, Minnesota. The position offers varied experiences across a wide range of patient populations. Woodwinds Health Campus is an 86-bed hospital located on 30 acres of wetlands and serves the southeast metro area. The Nursing Assistant supports professional nurses and caregivers in delivering patient care, transporting patients and equipment, setting up and maintaining patient rooms, and reordering and stocking supplies. The role works under the direction of a professional nurse and is not autonomous. Patient assignments may be made based on unit needs and the discretion of the manager or charge nurse. This position is 0.75 FTE, or 60 hours per two weeks, working 12-hour day shifts and every third weekend.

Requirements

Basic Life Support certification from the American Heart Association or Red Cross. OnTrack participants must be able to obtain Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers certification upon completion of the OnTrack program.
Successful completion of Fairview’s OnTrack Nursing Assistant training program or another Fairview-sponsored Nursing Assistant program; or six months of recent direct care experience in a long-term, home care, or acute care setting; or current enrollment in an LPN, RN, or Nurse Practitioner program with completion of one semester of clinical rotation; or current certification on the Minnesota Nursing Assistant Registry upon hire.
Appropriate direct-care roles may include Nursing Assistant, PCA, Resident Assistant, or Emergency Room Technician.

Responsibilities

Provide routine basic patient care, including personal grooming, bathing, toileting, feeding, skin care, clean and sterile dressing changes, applying ointments or creams, oral hygiene, specimen collection and testing, positioning, ambulating, 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, input and output, blood pressure, temperature, pulse rates, respiration, and oxygen saturation.
Place patients on and off monitors or 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 upon admission, transfer, and discharge.
Transport patients and/or equipment.
Set up and maintain patient rooms.
Reorder and stock supplies.