Nursing Assistant - Heart Center

Fairview Health Services•Edina, MN

3h•Onsite

About The Position

Fairview is looking for a Nursing Assistant at Southdale Hospital in Edina, MN! This position is 48 hours per two weeks on the Night shift, for 12 hour shifts, every third weekend. 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. Do you have a special curiosity about cardiac patients? Then the Southdale Heart Center may be the right unit for you! This lively and challenging 29 bed cardiac telemetry unit cares for patients with a variety of diagnosis. This is a fast paced unit with a complex patient population and many learning opportunities.

Requirements

Basic Life Support (BLS for Healthcare Providers) certification required. Ontrack participants much be able to obtain Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers certification upon completion of the OnTrack program.
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. This requirement does not need to be maintained throughout employment and is not required if subsequently transferring into another Nursing Assistant or Nursing Station Tech or Nursing Station Attendant position.

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 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 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