Nursing Assistant - Acute Rehab

Fairview Health Services•Minneapolis, MN

19h•Onsite

About The Position

The Nursing Assistant works in the Acute Rehab Center at the University of Minnesota Medical Center – West Bank Campus, a 30-bed inpatient rehabilitation unit serving primarily adults and adolescents age 13 and older with diagnoses including neurological and orthopedic conditions, oncology, amputation, spinal cord injury, and transplant. The center provides post-acute physical, occupational, and speech-language therapy and emphasizes collaboration across disciplines to help patients return home. The position provides routine patient care, assists nurses with monitoring patient condition, supports admissions, transfers, and discharges, and helps maintain patient rooms and equipment. The schedule is 40 hours every two weeks, working eight-hour night shifts and every other weekend.

Requirements

Current listing on the Minnesota CNA Registry.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for healthcare providers.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a hospital setting.

Responsibilities

Partner with patients and their caregivers in care and decision-making.
Provide personal care, including grooming, bathing, toileting, feeding, skin care, oral hygiene, specimen collection and testing, positioning, and ambulation.
Change linens and promptly answer call lights.
Assist nurses 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.
Account for and document patient belongings upon 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 tasks performed in the appropriate form.