Nursing Station Technician - Float Pool

Fairview Health Services•Minneapolis, MN

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Fairview is seeking a Nursing Station Technician (CNA/HUC) for the Float Pool at East Bank University Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The position is 0.7 FTE (56 hours every two weeks), working 8-hour night shifts with an every-other-weekend rotation. Float Pool technicians work across 17 units and provide one-on-one patient support as sitting attendants. The Nursing Station Technician role combines Nursing Assistant and Health Unit Coordinator responsibilities. Under the direct supervision of a professional nurse, the technician provides direct patient care and administrative support, including assisting with patient care, transporting patients and equipment, preparing and maintaining rooms, and managing supplies. Unit desk duties include answering phones, processing admission, discharge, and transfer forms, transcribing orders, assembling patient charts, and ordering tests.

Requirements

BLS certification.
Meet at least one of the following: six months of recent hands-on patient care experience in acute, long-term, or home care; enrollment in an LPN, RN, or NP program with at least one completed clinical semester; CNA status on the Minnesota Registry; or completion of Fairview's OnTrack Nursing Assistant training program.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience as a Health Unit Coordinator, Nursing Assistant, or in a related role.

Responsibilities

Facilitate timely communication in the patient care area and coordinate the exchange of information and services.
Answer telephones and patient intercoms promptly, clarify information, and relay messages and requests courteously and in a timely manner.
Coordinate desk-area activities and handle communications accurately.
Schedule tests, laboratory work, and other patient or department procedures; arrange and assist with transport; and use the EHR.
Prepare charts for discharge and transfers.
Prepare and complete information sources for the care area, such as brainboards, census information, and computer information.
Assign and maintain unit communication technology, including pagers and ASCOM phones.
Transcribe physician orders accurately and on time, following required procedures and prioritizing orders.
Recognize orders requiring transcription and order necessary services, tests, and equipment, then sign off orders according to procedure.
Use medical terminology, abbreviations, and symbols accurately and according to procedures.
Maintain the desk area, patient supplies, and equipment according to designated standards.
Order individual patient supplies as advised by a nurse or indicated in physician orders.
Report equipment requiring maintenance to the appropriate department and follow up on its status.
Follow care-area standards for cost containment and cost control.
Maintain safe, clean, and efficient patient care areas.
Participate in orienting new staff, physicians, and students to the patient care unit.
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, changing linens, and answering call lights.
Assist nurses in supervising patient condition.