Nursing Station Technician - Float Pool

Fairview Health Services•Minneapolis, MN

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Fairview is hiring a Nursing Station Technician (CNA/HUC) for its Float Team at East Bank University Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The role floats across 17 units and provides one-on-one patient support as a sitting attendant. It combines Nursing Assistant and Health Unit Coordinator responsibilities, delivering direct patient care and administrative support under the direct supervision of a professional nurse. The technician works with patients, families, and the healthcare team in a fast-paced unit environment. The position is 0.6 FTE, or 48 hours every two weeks, on 12-hour day shifts from 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., with an every-third-weekend rotation. Duties include supporting patient care, transporting patients and equipment, preparing and maintaining rooms, and managing supplies. Administrative work includes answering phones and patient intercoms, processing admissions, discharges and transfers, transcribing orders, preparing charts, and coordinating tests and other services. Fairview offers benefits that include medical, dental and vision coverage, PTO/vacation, Safe and Sick Time, tuition reimbursement, and retirement benefits. Other benefits may also be available.

Requirements

BLS certification.
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 clinical semester completed; certification as a Nursing Assistant 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 telephone calls and patient intercoms promptly, clarify information, relay requests, and follow through on messages courteously.
Coordinate desk-area activities and handle communications accurately and promptly.
Schedule tests, laboratory work, and other patient or department procedures; arrange or assist with appropriate transport; and use the EHR.
Prepare charts and forms for patient discharges and transfers.
Prepare and complete unit information sources, such as brainboards, census information, and computer information; assign and maintain communication devices such as pagers and Ascom phones.
Accurately and promptly transcribe physician orders, including recognizing orders requiring transcription, ordering services, tests, and equipment, and signing off according to procedure.
Use medical terminology, abbreviations, and symbols accurately and prioritize transcription according to established routines.
Maintain the desk area and patient supplies and equipment according to designated standards.
Order individual patient supplies as directed by a nurse or indicated in physician orders.
Notify the appropriate department about equipment requiring maintenance and follow up on its status.
Follow patient-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 patient care, including grooming, bathing, toileting, feeding, skin care and dressing changes, applying ointments or creams, oral hygiene, specimen collection and testing, positioning, ambulation, changing linens, and responding to call lights.
Assist nurses in supervising patient condition.