Student Nurse Technician Campus Float

CommonSpirit Health•Omaha, NE

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Student Nurse Technician provides essential direct patient care support under RN supervision while gaining hands-on clinical experience. The role performs and documents delegated patient care tasks for diverse medical/surgical patients, seeks guidance as needed, and contributes to a dynamic clinical environment. Success in the role requires a passion for nursing, attention to detail, empathy, excellent communication, prioritizing patient needs, and a commitment to learning. The position provides personal care, hygiene, and physical comfort within assigned tasks; prepares patients, equipment, and supplies for procedures and examinations; performs, monitors, reports, and documents assigned clinical activities; and reports changes in patient condition to the RN. It supports patient admissions, discharges, and transfers, contributes patient information for interdisciplinary care planning, maintains an organized work environment, and manages supplies and equipment. The technician also participates in quality improvement, growth opportunities, ongoing education, and orientation to the RN role while remaining within scope.

Requirements

Current enrollment and good standing in a nursing program upon hire, or recent graduation from a full-time nursing program.
Qualifying nursing education may include an accredited baccalaureate nursing program, an associate degree RN program, or an LPN-to-RN program.
One of the following upon hire: Nebraska Certified Nursing Assistant, Nebraska Licensed Practical Nurse, or Nebraska Registered Nurse.
Basic Life Support - CPR upon hire.

Responsibilities

Provide patient personal care, hygiene, and physical comfort within assigned tasks, including feeding, bathing, shaving, changing clothes, bed making, ambulation, lifting, turning, moving, transferring, enemas, skin care, and bowel/bladder elimination.
Provide additional care required to meet assigned patients’ personal primary needs and comfort, based on skill, ability, and patient acuity.
Prepare patients, equipment, and supplies for specific procedures and examinations.
Perform, monitor, report, and document clinical activities within assigned tasks.
Observe and report changes in patient condition to the RN.
Assist nursing staff with patient admission, discharge, and transfer, including handling belongings, providing personal care and comfort items, orienting patients and families, and transporting patients.
Provide patient information to nursing staff for inclusion in the interdisciplinary plan of care and document relevant patient data according to work-unit standards.
Maintain a neat and organized work environment.
Order, stock, and replenish supplies and equipment; identify and report problems; enter equipment repair requests, tag equipment, and remove it from service.
Participate in quality assurance and improvement initiatives and activities.
Participate in growth opportunities, ongoing education, and orientation to the role of an RN while remaining within scope.