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 32 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, we combine talents to balance innovative technologies and treatments with the art of medicine. Working together, we respectfully address the comprehensive needs of our patients and their families. 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. If you're looking to grow your clinical and clerical skills in a setting that values precision, compassion, and collaboration—this is the place to be.

Requirements

Basic Life Support (BLS for Healthcare Providers) certification required.
Successful completion of Fairview’s OnTrack Nursing Assistant training program or another Fairview sponsored Nursing Assistant program.
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)
Current enrollment in an LPN, RN or Nurse Practitioner program, and completion of one (1) semester of clinical rotation within the program.
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
Provides basic patient care by performing routine duties to include: Personal grooming, bathing, toileting, Feeding, Skin care needs (clean and sterile dressing changes), applying ointments/creams, Oral hygiene, Specimen collection/testing, Position/ambulating, Changing linens, Promptly answers call lights.
Assists the nurse in monitoring patient condition.
Accurately takes and records weights, input/output, blood pressure, temperature, pulse rates, respiration, oxygen saturation.
Places patient on/off monitors or equipment.
Reports unusual findings to the RN in a timely manner.
Assists with admissions, transfers, and discharge of patients.
Orients patient and their family to the environment.
Assures the patient’s belongings are accounted for, documented upon admission, transfer and discharge.
Transports patients, equipment, specimen and supplies.
Assures patients get to appointments on time.
Uses transfer belt when assisting patients with transfers and/or ambulation.
Cleans sets up, and maintains rooms and equipment.
Orders and stocks supplies.
Accurately documents tasks performed on appropriate form.
Performs other tasks as needed.