Nursing Assistant - Transitional Care Unit
About The Position
The Nursing Assistant works in the 28-bed Transitional Care Unit at M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center – West Bank Campus. The unit cares for adult patients with a range of diagnoses, including neurological and orthopedic conditions, cancer, amputations, spinal cord injuries, and transplant-related needs. It provides post-acute physical, occupational, and speech-language therapy in a collaborative environment involving rehabilitation nursing, physicians and physiatrists, social work, dietary services, and other team members, with the goal of helping patients return home. The role provides routine basic patient care, assists nurses in monitoring patient condition, supports patient admissions, transfers, and discharges, and helps maintain patient rooms and equipment. The position is 64 hours every two weeks, with eight-hour evening shifts and every other weekend. It is eligible for benefits.
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.
- Assist with personal grooming, bathing, toileting, feeding, oral hygiene, and skin care, including clean and sterile dressing changes and applying ointments or creams.
- Collect and test specimens.
- Assist with patient positioning and ambulation, using a transfer belt when assisting with transfers or walking.
- Change linens and promptly answer call lights.
- Assist nurses in monitoring patient condition.
- Accurately measure 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, and orient patients and families to the environment.
- Ensure patients' 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.
- Clean, set up, and maintain rooms and equipment.
- Order and stock supplies.
- Document completed tasks accurately on the appropriate form.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid time off and vacation
- Safe and Sick Time
- Tuition reimbursement
- Retirement benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
No Education Listed
