Nursing Assistant - Float Pool

Fairview Health Services•Burnsville, MN

19d•Onsite

About The Position

Ridges Hospital is seeking a Nursing Assistant to join its Float Pool unit in Burnsville, Minnesota. This 0.75 FTE position works 60 hours per two-week pay period on 12-hour day shifts from 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., with a rotating weekend schedule every third weekend (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday). The Nursing Assistant supports a professional nurse or caregiver in delivering patient care, transporting patients and items, preparing and maintaining patient rooms, and ordering and stocking supplies. The role works under the direction of a professional nurse and is not autonomous. Patient care assignments may be made according to unit needs and the discretion of the manager or charge nurse.

Requirements

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; or 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.
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.

Responsibilities

Provide routine basic patient care, including grooming, bathing, toileting, feeding, skin care, dressing changes, applying ointments or creams, oral hygiene, specimen collection and testing, positioning, ambulation, and changing linens.
Answer call lights promptly.
Assist the nurse in monitoring patient condition.
Accurately take and record weights, input 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 in a timely manner.
Assist with patient admissions, transfers, and discharges.
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.
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 on the appropriate form.
Perform other tasks as needed.