Night Shift CNA: Ortho & Neuro Patient Care

1000 Owensboro Health, Inc.; Owensboro (KY); On-site; USD 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Owensboro Health Regional Hospital in Owensboro, KY seeks an SRNA to provide direct patient care under the supervision of a nurse. The role collaborates closely with the care team to support patient safety and a high-quality care experience.

Responsibilities include patient orientation, ongoing communication, data collection for nurse review, accurate EMR documentation, and flexible tasks within organizational standards. Weekend rotation is every other week as part of a 0.9 FTE schedule.

Qualifications

• Requires critical thinking skills and decisive judgment.
• Able to work in a stressful environment.
• Must be able to work with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Greets and orients new patients to the hospital environment, room and unit routines.
• Creates positive patient experience by focusing on what matters most to the patient and visitor/s.
• Fosters patient engagement by involving the patient and/or significant others in handoff to proactively meet patient needs and assure a safe environment through intentional rounding.
• Provides ongoing communication through regular updates to the patient-room care board.
• Promotes a Culture of Safety by mindfully integrating Error Prevention tools into daily routines.
• Contributes to the assessment of patients by collecting data for review by a nurse and reports abnormal findings.
• Documents patient progress toward goals and ensures documentation is accurate, complete, specific, and timely.
• Assists nursing staff to identify physical, psychosocial, age-specific, and cultural considerations of each patient.
• Works with the nursing staff to provide personal care according to organizational standards and policies.
• May monitor tube system and handle medication in accordance with medication safe handling practice.
• May update diet orders and verifies tray deliveries meet diet requirements.
• May electronically transfer patients in and out of the unit including facilitation of direct admit process, completion of discharge in electronic medical record (EMR), assembling paper-lite chart, and assisting with patient bed placement.
• May arrange for patient transport services.
• May enter work orders and obtain supplies from materials.
• May enter staff assignments into Responder 5 System and verify staff have logged in and out of the system.
• May perform continuous observation of EKG monitors for assigned groups of patients, while communicating to appropriate staff any changes in cardiac rhythm, including interpreting and documenting rhythm, heart rate, and appropriate measurements in the electronic medical record (EMR).
• May run telemetry strips whenever a significant change in rhythm, rate, or conduction occurs, and/or according to policy and scan all appropriate strips into EMR per policy.

Skills

Critical thinking

Decisive judgment

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

Owensboro Health Regional Hospital in Owensboro, KY seeks an SRNA to provide direct patient care under the supervision of a nurse. The role collaborates closely with the care team to support patient safety and a high-quality care experience.

Responsibilities include patient orientation, ongoing communication, data collection for nurse review, accurate EMR documentation, and flexible tasks within organizational standards. Weekend rotation is every other week as part of a 0.9 FTE schedule.