Nursing Assistant - Intermediate Care Unit - 12hr Shifts

Fairview Health Services•Edina, MN

3d•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 60 hours per two weeks, working 12-hour night shifts and every third weekend. The Intermediate Care Unit is a fast-paced, 30-bed surgical specialty unit delivering patient-centered care through multidisciplinary collaboration. It cares for complex surgical and medical patients, including those 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 a professional nurse or caregiver in delivering patient care and works under a professional nurse’s direction rather than autonomously. Assignments may be 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 ordering and stocking supplies.

Requirements

Basic Life Support (BLS for Healthcare Providers) certification is required; OnTrack participants must be able to obtain it upon completion of the program.
Meet at least one of the following: successfully complete Fairview’s OnTrack Nursing Assistant training program or another Fairview-sponsored Nursing Assistant program; have six months of recent direct care experience in a long-term, home care, or acute care setting; be currently enrolled in an LPN, RN, or Nurse Practitioner program and have completed one semester of clinical rotation; or hold current certification on the Minnesota Nursing Assistant Registry upon hire.
The Minnesota Nursing Assistant Registry certification does not need to be maintained throughout employment and is not required if subsequently transferring into another Nursing Assistant, Nursing Station Tech, or Nursing Station Attendant position.

Responsibilities

Provide routine personal care, including grooming, bathing, toileting, feeding, skin care, oral hygiene, specimen collection or testing, positioning, ambulation, and changing linens.
Answer call lights promptly.
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 off monitors or other equipment.
Report unusual findings to the RN promptly.
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, equipment, specimens, and supplies, and ensure patients arrive at 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 completed tasks on the appropriate form.
Perform other tasks as needed.