Nursing Assistant - ICU

Fairview Health Services•Edina, MN

3h•Onsite

About The Position

Fairview is looking for a Nursing Assistant at the M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, MN. This position is 56 hours every two weeks on the Night shift, for 8 hour shifts, and every other weekend. M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital offers care to people living and working in the southwest Twin Cities metro area, with more than 40 specialty services, combining talents to balance innovative technologies and treatments with the art of medicine. The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital provides high-acuity care to critically ill patients from across the Southwest Twin Cities metro area. This fast-paced, dynamic environment offers exposure to advanced technologies, complex medical conditions, and multidisciplinary teamwork. Nursing Assistants and Nursing Station Technicians play a vital role in supporting both direct patient care and essential unit operations. The role values precision, compassion, and collaboration, offering an opportunity to grow clinical and clerical skills.

Requirements

Basic Life Support (BLS for Healthcare Providers) certification
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 (Appropriate roles may include, Nursing Assistant, PCA, Resident Assistant or Emergency Room Technician) OR
Current enrollment in an LPN, RN or Nurse Practitioner program, and completion of one (1) semester of clinical rotation within the program OR
Current certification on the Minnesota Nursing Assistant Registry upon hire

Responsibilities

Assisting the professional nurse/caregiver in the delivery of patient care
Transporting patient and/or equipment
Setting up and maintaining patient rooms
Reordering and stocking of supplies
Providing basic patient care including personal grooming, bathing, toileting, feeding
Addressing skin care needs (clean and sterile dressing changes), applying ointments/creams
Performing oral hygiene
Performing specimen collection/testing
Assisting with patient positioning/ambulating
Changing linens
Promptly answering call lights
Assisting the nurse in monitoring patient condition
Accurately taking and recording weights, input/output, blood pressure, temperature, pulse rates, respiration, oxygen saturation
Placing patient on/off monitors or equipment
Reporting unusual findings to the RN in a timely manner
Assisting with admissions, transfers, and discharge of patients
Orienting patient and their family to the environment
Assuring the patient’s belongings are accounted for, documented upon admission, transfer and discharge
Transporting patients, equipment, specimen and supplies
Assuring patients get to appointments on time
Using transfer belt when assisting patients with transfers and/or ambulation
Cleaning, setting up, and maintaining rooms and equipment
Ordering and stocking supplies
Accurately documenting tasks performed on appropriate form
Performing other tasks as needed