Patient Care Technician - Rotating Shifts, 20 hrs/wk

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

Job summary

Avera McKennan Hospital is seeking a part-time Certified Nurse Aide to provide routine patient care under nurse or physician direction. The role features rotating days/evenings/nights with weekends and holidays, 20 hours per week, and pay ranging from $18.00 to $23.50 per hour depending on experience.

Responsibilities include ambulating, bathing, feeding, charting, and responding to call lights. Requirements: high school diploma or GED and CNA certification; minimum age 16.

Qualifications

• Essential Qualifications: must be able to work the hours specified with adequate vision and effective communication; reasonable accommodations may be made.
• Preferred Education, License/Certification, Or Work Experience: High School or GED; CNA certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides safe and direct patient care: ambulating, bathing, positioning, entering diet information, passing meal trays, feeding and attending to other care needs.
• Greets all persons, answers inquiries, direct and assist, take messages, assist with gifts/flowers/mail, run errands for department staff.
• Ambulates patients and assists in/out of wheelchairs, measures intake/output, may collect specimens and transport patients.
• Answers telephone, operates paging system, attends station and directs traffic during emergencies.
• Prepares requisitions for diagnostic/therapeutic services and coordinates appointments with respective departments. Makes outpatient appointments.
• Requests services such as Chaplain, social services, pastoral care.
• Performs clerical duties related to admissions, discharges, charts and forms, transfers, and death.
• Manages interdepartmental and patient mail.
• Maintains patient rooms, changes bed linens, and provides routine cleaning tasks.

Education

High School or GED Equivalent

Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) - Licensing Board

Job description

Avera McKennan Hospital is seeking a part-time Certified Nurse Aide to provide routine patient care under nurse or physician direction. The role features rotating days/evenings/nights with weekends and holidays, 20 hours per week, and pay ranging from $18.00 to $23.50 per hour depending on experience.

Responsibilities include ambulating, bathing, feeding, charting, and responding to call lights. Requirements: high school diploma or GED and CNA certification; minimum age 16.