Patient Care Technician - Self-Scheduling & Sign-On Bonus

Avera St. Anthony's Hospital; O'Neill (NE); On-site; USD 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Avera St Anthony's Hospital is seeking a Certified Nursing Assistant to provide routine patient care and support services, under nurse or physician direction, ensuring high-quality patient care in a busy hospital setting.

Hours include days and nights on a rotating schedule with every 3rd weekend/holiday. A sign-on bonus of up to $1,000 may be available; self scheduling is supported to balance shift needs and personal commitments.

Qualifications

• Must be able to work the hours specified and perform essential functions with appropriate vision and communication.
• Ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

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, answers 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.
• M akes 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

High school diploma or general education degree (GED)

Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) - Licensing Board

Job description

Avera St Anthony's Hospital is seeking a Certified Nursing Assistant to provide routine patient care and support services, under nurse or physician direction, ensuring high-quality patient care in a busy hospital setting.

Hours include days and nights on a rotating schedule with every 3rd weekend/holiday. A sign-on bonus of up to $1,000 may be available; self scheduling is supported to balance shift needs and personal commitments.