Nursing Assistant - Intermediate Care Unit

Fairview Health Services•Edina, MN

32d•Onsite

About The Position

Fairview is hiring a Nursing Assistant for the Intermediate Care Unit at M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, Minnesota. The position is 56 hours per two weeks, with 8-hour day shifts and work every other weekend. The Intermediate Care Unit is a fast-paced, 30-bed surgical specialty unit focused on patient-centered care and multidisciplinary collaboration. The team cares for complex surgical and medical patients, including people recovering from vascular, thoracic, and open-heart procedures, as well as cardiac and respiratory patients requiring advanced monitoring. The unit has telemetry capabilities and a progressive training approach. The Nursing Assistant supports professional nurses in delivering patient care and works under a nurse’s direction rather than autonomously. Assignments may vary based on unit needs and the discretion of the manager or charge nurse. The role also includes transporting patients and equipment, maintaining patient rooms, and stocking supplies.

Requirements

Basic Life Support (BLS for Healthcare Providers) certification is required. OnTrack participants must be able to obtain this certification upon completion of the OnTrack program.
Meet at least one of the following qualifications: successful completion of Fairview’s OnTrack Nursing Assistant training program or another Fairview-sponsored Nursing Assistant program; six months of recent direct-care experience in long-term, home-care, or acute-care settings in an appropriate role such as Nursing Assistant, PCA, Resident Assistant, or Emergency Room Technician; 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.

Responsibilities

Provide basic patient care, including personal grooming, bathing, toileting, feeding, skin care, oral hygiene, specimen collection and testing, positioning, and ambulation.
Perform clean and sterile dressing changes and apply ointments or creams as directed.
Promptly answer call lights.
Assist nurses in monitoring patient condition.
Accurately take and record weights, intake and output, blood pressure, temperature, pulse rates, respiration, and oxygen saturation.
Place patients on or remove them from 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.
Account for and document patients’ belongings upon admission, transfer, and discharge.
Transport patients, equipment, specimens, and supplies, and ensure patients get to appointments on time.
Use a transfer belt when assisting patients with transfers or ambulation.
Clean, set up, and maintain rooms and equipment.
Order and stock supplies.
Accurately document tasks performed on the appropriate form.
Perform other tasks as needed.