Nursing Station Technician - Neuroscience - 12hr Shifts

Fairview Health Services•Edina, MN

20h•Onsite

About The Position

Fairview is hiring a Nursing Station Technician for the Neuroscience Intermediate Care unit at M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital in Edina, Minnesota. The position is 0.75 FTE, or 60 hours every two weeks, working 12-hour day shifts and every third weekend. The role is eligible for benefits. The Neuroscience IMC is a 29-bed inpatient unit caring for adults with complex neurological and neurosurgical conditions requiring close observation, frequent monitoring, assessments, and interventions. Patients may have ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke, post-craniotomy or other neurosurgical needs, seizure disorders, traumatic brain injury, complex spinal cord injuries, or neurodegenerative conditions requiring acute management. The unit is fast-paced and offers learning opportunities. The Nursing Station Technician assists professional caregivers with patient care and supports the coordination and communication functions of the patient care unit. The technician works under the direction of a professional nurse and may or may not receive a patient care assignment depending on unit needs and the discretion of the manager or charge nurse. Duties include clerical and transcription work, maintaining the unit desk and patient rooms, transporting patients or equipment, stocking supplies, coordinating procedures and communication, and providing routine patient care.

Requirements

Basic Life Support certification from the American Heart Association or Red Cross. OnTrack participants must be able to obtain Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers certification upon completion of the OnTrack program.
Meet at least one of the following: 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; 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.
Direct-care experience, when used to meet the qualification, may include work as a Nursing Assistant, PCA, Resident Assistant, or Emergency Room Technician.

Responsibilities

Assist professional caregivers in delivering patient care.
Transport patients and/or equipment; arrange appropriate transport for tests and procedures and assist with transport.
Set up and maintain patient rooms; reorder and stock supplies.
Perform clerical, transcription, and patient-care-unit desk maintenance duties in an organized, priority-based manner.
Coordinate communication and activities at the unit desk, including promptly and courteously answering telephone calls and patient intercoms, clarifying information, relaying requests, and following through on messages.
Provide effective, friendly, and timely customer service to health care team members, patients, and the public.
Coordinate scheduling of tests, lab work, and other patient and department procedures.
Use the electronic health record (EHR) effectively and facilitate EHR corrections when delegated by an RN and/or MD.
Identify and help resolve unit-specific issues involving support departments, involving the Nurse Manager or Manager as needed.
Assemble admission charts and maintain patient charts according to site guidelines and policies.
Obtain necessary paperwork for charts and/or orders; add or delete reports and forms in the correct chart order.
Prepare charts for discharge and transfers and follow processes for communication to the next level of care.
Prepare and complete information sources for the care area, such as census and computer information.
Assign and maintain unit communication technology.
Transcribe physician orders accurately and promptly according to procedure, including recognizing orders requiring transcription, ordering necessary services, tests, and equipment, and signing off orders per procedure.
Use medical terminology, abbreviations, and symbols correctly according to procedures.
Provide basic patient care, including grooming, bathing, toileting, feeding, skin care and clean or sterile dressing changes, applying ointments or creams, oral hygiene, specimen collection or testing, positioning and ambulating, changing linens, and promptly answering call lights.