CHESS Nursing Assistant: Flexible Acute Care Float

CH_050 Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca, Inc.; Hayts Corner (NY); On-site; USD 27,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages

Comprehensive benefits

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Cayuga Health is seeking a CHESS Nursing Assistant to provide flexible clinical and technical support across acute care and skilled nursing settings as part of the Float Pool. This advanced role offers growth through competency-based advancement and added compensation as competencies are achieved.

You will perform vital signs, assist across Med/Surg, ICU, OB, and other areas, while maintaining safety, patient care, and compliance with CHESS standards.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent education.
• Current BLS certification.
• Current New York State CNA certification at hire or ability to obtain NYS CNA certification within six months of hire as a condition of continued employment.
• Minimum of two (2) years of acute care experience at Cayuga Medical Center.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively across multiple patient care environments and acquire and maintain specialized clinical and technical competencies appropriate to assigned areas.

Responsibilities

• Provide flexible nursing assistant support across assigned clinical areas, including Med/Surg, SSSU, Behavioral Services, ICU, Maternal Child Health/OB, and skilled nursing settings based on demonstrated competency and organizational need.
• Obtain and document vital signs and intake/output and promptly communicate changes in patient appearance, behavior, condition, or other clinical observations to the appropriate RN or clinical team member.
• Perform approved technical functions based on demonstrated competency, which may include phlebotomy, ECGs, telemetry monitoring, AvaSure monitoring, transfer center coordination, and other specialized clinical support.
• Provide sterile field and instrumentation support as an OB Scrub Technician when trained and competency-validated for the function.
• Reinforce established patient care, safety, and post-operative instructions within role scope and maintain required CHESS competencies through ongoing utilization and revalidation.

Job description

Cayuga Health is seeking a CHESS Nursing Assistant to provide flexible clinical and technical support across acute care and skilled nursing settings as part of the Float Pool. This advanced role offers growth through competency-based advancement and added compensation as competencies are achieved.

You will perform vital signs, assist across Med/Surg, ICU, OB, and other areas, while maintaining safety, patient care, and compliance with CHESS standards.