Patient Care Tech | Flexible Shifts + CNA Preferred

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

Benefits offered by this job

PTO day 1

Retirement plan with employer match

Career development

Job summary

Avera Health in Sioux Falls is seeking a Nursing Assistant (CNA) to provide routine patient care in a multidisciplinary team. The role supports nurses and physicians, with responsibilities ranging from ambulation to meal delivery and documentation.

The position requires CNA certification and a High School diploma or GED. Shifts include mornings, afternoons, evenings, nights, and every third weekend/holiday; patient care quality and safety are paramount.

Qualifications

• Must be able to work the hours specified.
• Visual acuity adequate to perform position duties.
• Ability to communicate effectively with others.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job 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.
• Responds promptly to patient call lights and special needs, ensures that patient valuables and personal items are properly handled and accounted for.
• 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.

Education

High School or GED Equivalent

Certified Nurse Aide (CNA)

Job description

Avera Health in Sioux Falls is seeking a Nursing Assistant (CNA) to provide routine patient care in a multidisciplinary team. The role supports nurses and physicians, with responsibilities ranging from ambulation to meal delivery and documentation.

The position requires CNA certification and a High School diploma or GED. Shifts include mornings, afternoons, evenings, nights, and every third weekend/holiday; patient care quality and safety are paramount.