Hospital Patient Care Technician (CNA)

Sioux Center Health; Sioux Falls (SD); On-site; USD 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO from day 1

Retirement match (5%)

Career development

Job summary

Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, SD is seeking a Certified Nurse Aide for a regular, full-time position that offers 40 hours per week with rotating shifts (6:00 AM–2:30 PM, 2:00 PM–10:30 PM) and possible overnights, every third weekend/holiday rotation. This is a year‑round role focused on compassionate patient care.

You will provide routine patient care under nurse or physician guidance, assist with daily activities, document care in the system, respond to call lights, and help

Qualifications

• Provide routine patient care under nurse/physician direction.
• Assist with ambulating, bathing, feeding, and daily activities.
• Maintain patient safety and confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Provides safe and direct patient care: ambulating, bathing, positioning, entering diet information into the computer system, passing meal trays, feeding and attending to other care needs.
• Greets all persons coming to the area assigned, answer inquiries, may direct and assist them, take and relay messages, assist with gifts, flowers, and mail for patients, run errands for department staff.
• Ambulates patients and assist them in and out of wheelchairs, measures intakes and outputs, may collect specimens and transport patients as needed.
• Answers telephone, operates paging system, and attends station and direct traffic during emergencies.
• Prepares requisitions for diagnostic and therapeutic services patients as directed and coordinate appointments with respective departments. Makes outpatient appointments for discharging patients.
• Requisition of supplies and equipment, maintenance and repairs services and prepares related forms.
• Requests services such as the following as directed: Chaplain, social services, and pastoral care.
• Performs clerical duties related to procedures such as admission, discharge, preparing appropriate charts and forms, transfer, and death.
• Manages interdepartmental and patient mail.
• Maintains patient rooms in an orderly condition, changes bed linens and provides routine cleaning tasks.

Skills

Patient care

Communication

Teamwork

Safety awareness

Education

High School Diploma

CNA Certification

Job description

Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls, SD is seeking a Certified Nurse Aide for a regular, full-time position that offers 40 hours per week with rotating shifts (6:00 AM–2:30 PM, 2:00 PM–10:30 PM) and possible overnights, every third weekend/holiday rotation. This is a year‑round role focused on compassionate patient care.

You will provide routine patient care under nurse or physician guidance, assist with daily activities, document care in the system, respond to call lights, and help