Patient Care Tech (CNA) | Rotating Shifts, Growth & PTO

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

Benefits offered by this job

PTO from day 1

Retirement matching (up to 5%)

Career development / mentorship

Job summary

Avera Creighton Hospital is seeking a dedicated Nursing Assistant to provide routine patient care under supervision. You will assist with daily activities, document patient information, and follow established policies to help ensure the highest quality patient care for our diverse patient population.

Responsibilities include ambulating patients, bathing, feeding, positioning, responding to call lights, preparing charts and forms, coordinating outpatient appointments, managing department mail,

Qualifications

• Must be able to work the hours specified and perform essential job functions.
• Visual acuity adequate to perform duties; ability to communicate effectively, hear and understand.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

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 in area, answers inquiries, directs and assists, relays messages, assists with gifts/flowers/mail, runs errands for staff.
• Ambulates patients and assists in/out of wheelchairs; measures intake/output; may collect specimens and transport.
• Answers telephone, operates paging system, attends station and directs traffic during emergencies.
• Prepares requisitions for diagnostic/therapeutic services and coordinates appointments; makes outpatient appointments.
• Requisition of supplies and equipment; maintenance and repairs; prepares related forms.
• Requests services (Chaplain, social services, pastoral care) as directed.
• Performs clerical duties related to admission, discharge, charts, forms, transfer and discharge.
• Manages interdepartmental and patient mail.
• Maintains patient rooms in orderly condition, changes bed linens, performs routine cleaning tasks.

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) - Licensing Board

Job description

Avera Creighton Hospital is seeking a dedicated Nursing Assistant to provide routine patient care under supervision. You will assist with daily activities, document patient information, and follow established policies to help ensure the highest quality patient care for our diverse patient population.

Responsibilities include ambulating patients, bathing, feeding, positioning, responding to call lights, preparing charts and forms, coordinating outpatient appointments, managing department mail,