What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nurse Aide position at Huron Regional Medical Center?
Description
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Reports To: Medical/Surgical Unit Director
Status: 48-60 hours per two week pay period
Shift: 12 Hours - Rotating Shifts
Job Schedule: up to 3 shifts per week; every third weekend, every third holiday.
Weekly Hours: up to 30 hours
Remote Position: No
Pay: Competitive salary
Benefits: HRMC offers an attractive benefits package for qualifying full-time and part-time employees. Depending on eligibility, a variety of benefits include health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, sick leave and paid time off. To review your benefit eligibility, visit HRMC Benefits.
Job Summary
Performs a variety of nurse aide duties and functions to meet and exceed the customer's expectations while providing continuity of care to the patients we serve.
Demonstrates the mission of HRMC by displaying REACH, our core value system:
- Respectful - We value the unique talents, ideas, contributions, and circumstances of each individual.
- Engaged - We value being active, positive participants at work and in our communities.
- Available - We value providing local access to care for our communities while being present for each other.
- Competent - We value knowledgeable, people-centered, innovative, and technology driven teams.
- Helpful - We value always helping others with kindness and compassion.
Requirements
- High School graduate or equivalent work experience, including ability to read, write, and comprehend medical terminology.
- Certified Nurse Aide license in the state of South Dakota preferred.
- Physical demands necessitate frequent assistance of patient which require knowledge and proper use of body mechanics. Requires standing or walking during the majority of the shift.
- Ability to communicate with co-workers, patients and visitors.
- Cross training is required.
Working Conditions
- Work involves one-to-one contact with patients and visitors and may involve exposure to communicable disease. Frequent exposure to the chemicals used in cleaning and disinfecting solutions.
- Work is performed inside a well lighted, heated and air conditioned space. Work is intermittently moderate (exerting/lifting up to 50 pounds occasionally, up to 20 pounds frequently, or up to 10 pounds constantly) to heavy (exerting/lifting up to 100 pounds occasionally, up to 50 pounds frequently or up to 20 pounds constantly) in using various types of equipment, moving furniture, and patients.
- Work requires frequent walking, standing, sitting, stooping, bending, pushing, pulling, stretching, kneeling, crouching, feeling, talking, hearing and lifting.
- Subject to inside environmental conditions (protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature change) and to atmospheric conditions (one or more of the following conditions that affect the respiratory system or the skin: fumes, odors, dust, mists, gases or poor ventilation).
- Job hazards are minimal.