What are the responsibilities and job description for the Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) - Med/Surg, Full Time, Nights position at St Croix Health?
Job Type
Full-time
Description
St. Croix Health is looking for full-time (.75 FTE) CNA to work on our Med / Surg department. This position will work straight night shifts (7 pm-7 : 30 am), every 3rd weekend and holiday rotation.
The Certified Nursing Assistant is responsible for performing many basic care tasks for patients, like grooming, dressing, bathing, eating and exercising. They also assist the nursing staff with medical tasks like taking blood, monitoring vitals with medical equipment and reporting patient behavior and wellbeing. Their role is to ensure patients are comfortable and well cared working under the scope of a Registered Nurse.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities :
1. Assist patients to perform ADLs, such as getting out of bed, bathing, dressing, using the toilet, standing, walking, or exercising
- Delivers efficient / excellent care to all patients on the unit. Duties include performing ADL's, transferring, ambulation, dressing, toileting, turning and repositioning, feeding, bathing, etc.
- Keeps rooms and patient care supplies clean including changing soiled linen, emptying commodes or bedpans
- Turn or reposition bedridden patients
- Answer patient call signals to determine patients' needs
- Assist patients to eat or drink
- Undress, wash, and dress patients who are unable to do so themselves
- Lift or assist others to lift patients to move them on and off beds
- Supply, collect, or empty bedpans
- Wash, groom, shave, or drape patients to prepare them for surgery, treatment, or examination
2. Works directly with the care team to deliver quality patient care
3. Maintains unit order, cleanliness and safety.
4. Document or report observations of patient behavior, complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses or in EMR
Requirements
Education & Licensure :
Experience :
St. Croix Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
St. Croix Health has been a healing force in the St. Croix Valley for over 103 years. We are a purpose-driven organization with a dedicated team committed to serving our patients and communities throughout the St. Croix Valley. This commitment is rooted in our mission, vision and values.
Mission : We help people live healthier, happier, and longer lives.
Vision : To transform from quality sick care to quality well care that is sustainable and affordable.
Values : People Centered, Trust, Innovation, and Growth.
Here at St. Croix Health we offer our employees with a robust benefits package that includes :
St. Croix Health is a not-for-profit healthcare system located in St. Croix Falls, WI dedicated to helping people live healthier, happier, and longer lives. St. Croix Health offers the services of 80 providers and 20 specialties with five community clinics in Minnesota and Wisconsin all supported by a critical access hospital on the main campus in St. Croix Falls, just an hour northeast of Minneapolis / St. Paul. Nestled in the bluffs of the St. Croix River Valley, St. Croix Falls is the ideal place to work, live and play.
