Nursing Assistant - Medical Surgical - Full Time - Nights

Best Care; Council Bluffs (IA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Shift differentials

Tuition assistance

Academic sponsorship with Methodist <|

Methodist College sponsorship

Job summary

Nebraska Methodist Health System is seeking a dedicated caregiver for the Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs, IA. The role supports patients and families with quality care in a fast-paced hospital setting.

Work schedule is 7p-7a, 3x12hr shifts per week, with every third weekend and rotating holidays. Incentives may include shift differentials, tuition assistance, and academic sponsorship with Methodist College.

Responsibilities

• Provides age-specific patient care according to the plan of care.
• Delivers individualized patient service and completes age-specific competency assessments.
• Exhibits strong interpersonal relations with patients, staff and guests to ensure clear communication.
• Documents all data collected in Cerner and/or on worksheets promptly and accurately.
• Performs housekeeping tasks to maintain a safe and sanitary patient care environment.
• Responds to Call Lights promptly and assists with ADLs as needed.

Job description

Why work for Nebraska Methodist Health System?
At Nebraska Methodist Health System, we focus on providing exceptional care to the communities we serve and people we employ. We call it The Meaning of Care – a culture that has and will continue to set us apart. It’s helping families grow by making each delivery special, conveying a difficult diagnosis with a compassionate touch, going above and beyond for a patient’s needs, or giving a high five when a patient beats a disease or conquers a personal health challenge. We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits and a great work environment where all employees are valued! Most importantly, our employees are part of a team that makes a real difference in the communities we live and work in.

Job Summary:

Location: Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital
Address: 933 E Pierce St, Council Bluffs, IA

Work Schedule: 7p - 7a, 3x12hr Shifts/Week. Every third weekend and rotating holidays

Accountable for the delivery of quality care to patients and families according to the individualized needs of the patient.

Ask your recruiter/hiring manager about the following incentives that may be available for this position:

• Shift differentials & other financial incentives
• Tuition assistance
• Academic sponsorship with Methodist College

Responsibilities:

Essential Functions

1. Provides appropriate care specific to the age of the customer/patient, to ensure understanding and comfort level of treatment, as outlined in the Age Specific Criteria.

• Gives individualized customer service/patient care.
• Completes age specific competency assessment.

1. Exhibits excellent interpersonal relations with patients, co-workers, physicians, and guests to ensure effective communications.

• Responds to patient needs promptly and courteously.
• Obtains feedback from patients and visitors regarding their hospital experience.
• Communicates patient issues to the appropriate staff.
• Maintains a positive attitude while responding to requests in a timely and accurate manner.
• Communicates with other members of the health care team (food service, secretaries, housekeeping, etc.) as indicated.
• Actively participates in report process.

1. Completes clinical activities identified in the patient’s plan of care to meet patients’ comfort/activity/sleep needs and other clinical patient needs as delegated by professional staff.

• Reports patient comfort needs to nurse in a timely manner.
• Assures that skin is clean and dry.
• Reports any noticed skin changes.
• Provides personal care and assists with ADL (activities of daily living).
• Provides assistance with repositioning, turning and chair transfers.
• Assists as necessary with ambulation.
• Completes vital signs per patient’s plan of care.
• Weighs patients per patient’s plan of care.
• Reinforce patient education.
• Provides transportation assistance.
• Reports any variation from patient’s plan of care to professional staff.
• Attends to patient amenities; e.g., newspaper, mail.

1. Documents all data collected, in Cerner and/or on worksheets, accurately, completely, and in a timely manner to provide an accurate record of patient activities and response to activities.

• Documentation is completed in an ongoing basis prior to end of shift.
• Documentation reflects patient’s responses to activities according to patient’s plan of care.
• Documentation reflects care delivered.

1. Provides housekeeping activities to contribute to a safe, efficient, effective and sanitary patient care environment.

• Completes daily room cleaning according to established procedures for high dusting, vacuuming, mopping hard surface floors, disinfecting vertical surfaces, and spot cleaning vertical surfaces.
• Keep rooms neat and tidy, free of clutter.
• Removes trash and soiled linen from room each shift and as needed.
• Maintains patient environment, such as spills and room temperature, or actively utilizes Integrated Services team to do so properly.
• Distributes linens to servitors per par levels.
• Straightens and restocks patient care areas per par levels.
• Attends to patient amenities; e.g., newspapers, mail, watering plants.

1. Consistently recognizes and utilizes measures to provide for safe, efficient, patient care and work environment.

• Answers Call Lights in a timely manner and response to the patient request and/or relays request to appropriate resource when necessary.
• Performs other duties as delegated/under the direction of the professional staff.