UC/NA

CommonSpirit Health; San Luis Obispo (CA); On-site; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Dignity Health - French Hospital Medical Center in San Luis Obispo, CA, is seeking a Unit Clerk/Nurse's Aide to support the nursing team with continuous patient monitoring and collaboration across disciplines.

The role requires CNA certification and unit clerk training, with CPR certification preferred. You will monitor patients, greet and assist with admissions, maintain census logs, and help care for adult patients in a compassionate clinical setting.

Qualifications

• Basic patient-care skills including hygiene and comfort.
• Ability to measure vital signs and inputs/outputs accurately.
• Safely assist with mobility and transfers.
• Provide range of motion exercises and repositioning.
• Maintain clean and organized patient-care areas and logs.
• Report observations to the RN promptly.

Responsibilities

• Provide essential support to the nursing team and ensure continuous patient monitoring.
• Monitor cardiac patterns and communicate significant changes.
• Greet patients, maintain census logs, and support the care of adult patients.
• Build collaborative relationships across disciplines to enhance care.

Skills

Patient care

Vital signs

Safe mobility

ROM exercises

Hygiene care

RN communication

Education

CNA Certification

Unit Clerk Training

CPR Certification

Equivalent work experience

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Unit Clerk/Nurse's Aide, you will provide essential support to the nursing team, ensuring continuous, vigilant patient monitoring, and fostering collaborative relationships for quality healthcare services.

Every day you will provide continuous observation of cardiac monitor patterns, recognizing and communicating significant changes. You will proficiently use the H.I.S. computer system, serve as a unit representative, greet patients, maintain census logs, and support team members in the care of adult patients. You will also actively build collaborative relationships across disciplines.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate a strong commitment to patient care, meticulous attention to detail for monitoring, and proficiency in healthcare information systems. You will take responsibility for your competency, continuously evaluate performance, and stay informed of developments in nursing and your clinical specialty.

• Demonstrates basic patient-care skills, including, but not limited to, patient hygiene (bathing, grooming, oral and perennial care, backrubs).


• Measures vital signs, weights, and measures I/O accurately and within expected time frames.


• Safely ambulates, lifts, moves, and transports patients as delegated.


• Positions patients and performs range of motion exercises.


• Maintains clean patient-care area. Completes delegated unit assignments.


• Reports observations regarding patient status to the RN.

Job Requirements

Required

• Acute care experience within the last two years


• Nurse assistants/unit clerks without acute care experience within the last two years will be considered on an individual basis.


• Completion of education for a certified nursing assistant - CNA


• Equivalent work experience


• Completion of education to become a unit clerk


• Certified Nursing Assistant: CA


• Basic Life Support - CPR

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1946, Dignity Health - French Hospital Medical Center is a 112-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in San Luis Obispo, California. Serving over 150,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, orthopedics, and a family birthing center. Additionally, French Hospital Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and has achieved an "A" Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group for every reporting period since 2012.

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