Nursing Station Technician (NST) -Adult CV ICU

Fairview Health Services•Minneapolis, MN

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Fairview is hiring a Nursing Station Technician to join the Adult CV ICU team at East Bank University Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The NST supports professional caregivers in delivering patient care, transports patients and equipment, prepares and maintains patient rooms, and orders and stocks supplies. The role also performs clerical, transcription, and patient-care-unit desk maintenance duties and coordinates communication on the unit. The NST works under the direction of a professional nurse rather than autonomously. A patient-care assignment may be given depending on unit needs and the discretion of the manager or charge nurse. This position is 0.75 FTE, or 60 hours per two-week pay period, with 12-hour night shifts from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. and a third-weekend rotation. The NST coordinates communications and procedures, transcribes physician orders, maintains unit information and supplies, supports equipment upkeep, and provides routine basic patient care.

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 and coordination of services on the patient-care unit.
Answer telephone calls and patient intercoms promptly, clarify information, and relay messages and requests courteously and in a timely manner.
Coordinate desk-area activities and communication.
Schedule tests, lab work, and other patient or department procedures; arrange and assist with transportation; and use the EHR.
Prepare charts for patient discharges and transfers.
Prepare and maintain unit information, including brainboards, census information, and computer information.
Assign and maintain unit communication technology, such as pagers and Ascom phones.
Accurately and promptly transcribe physician orders, order services, tests, and equipment as needed, and complete required sign-off procedures.
Use medical terminology, abbreviations, and symbols accurately and prioritize order transcription according to established procedures.
Maintain the desk area, 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 when equipment requires maintenance and follow up on its status.
Follow unit 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 and dressing changes, applying ointments or creams, oral hygiene, specimen collection and testing, positioning, ambulation, linen changes, and answering call lights.
Assist nurses in supervising patient condition.