Salary range is based on skills, experience, education, and location:
Local:$21.33/hour – $26.67/hour W-2
Travel: $25.33/hour – $31.67/hour W-2.
Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision, and 401K (provided minimum eligibility hours are met)
Schedule Notes: 1.0 – Night – 2300-0700 – Up to 3 weekends per month
Location: Maplewood, MN 55109.
Job Title: Nursing Assistant
FLOAT POOL REQUIRED
The Nursing Assistant is responsible for assisting the professional nurse/caregiver in the delivery of patient care, transporting patient and/or equipment, setting up and maintaining patient rooms, and the reordering and stocking of supplies. The Nursing Assistant does not work autonomously but works under the direction of a professional nurse. The Nursing
- Assistant may be given a patient care assignment based on unit needs and the discretion of the manager/charge nurse.
- Provides basic patient care by performing routine duties to include Partners with patient care giver in care/decision making.
- Personal grooming, bathing, toileting, Feeding, Skin care needs (clean and sterile dressing changes), applying ointments/creams, Oral hygiene, Specimen collection/testing, Position/ambulating.
- Changing linens, promptly answers call lights.
- Assists nurse in monitoring patient condition.
- Accurately takes and records weights, input/output, blood pressure, temperature, pulse rates, respiration, oxygen saturation.
- Places patient on/off monitors or equipment.
- Reports unusual findings to the RN in a timely manner.
- Assists with admissions, transfers, and discharge of patients.
- Orients patient/family to environment.
- Assures the patient belongings are accounted for, documented upon admission, transfer, and discharge.
- Transports patients, equipment, specimen, and supplies.
- Assures patients get to appointment on time.
- Uses transfer belt when assisting patients with transfers and/or ambulation.
- Cleans sets up and maintains rooms and equipment.
- Orders and stocks supply.
- Correctly documents tasks performed on appropriate form.
Minimum Qualifications to Fulfill Job Responsibilities at all acute care hospitals:
Required Education:
Vocational/Technical Training or associate degree.
Experience:
• One year of previous Nursing Assistant or Nursing Station Tech Experience
License/Certification/Registration:
• Must be on the MN Nursing Assistant Registry
• BLS
• EPIC