Join a dedicated healthcare team providing compassionate, patient-centered care across various departments including medical, emergency, ICU, imaging, and obstetrics in a regional healthcare setting within the Midwest. This part-time role involves assisting licensed nursing staff with direct patient care and supportive activities, ensuring safety principles are upheld, and escalating patient concerns appropriately.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform individualized patient care tasks such as vital signs monitoring, assisting with hygiene, feeding, mobility, and specimen collection under nurse delegation.
• Support emergency department functions including phlebotomy, EKG testing, and specimen handling after completing required training.
• Assist ICU staff with patient monitoring, clerical duties, and recognizing abnormal cardiac rhythms following arrhythmia course completion.
• Provide technical and clerical support in imaging, preparing patients and equipment, and maintaining cleanliness and supply levels.
• In obstetrics, perform scrubbing for deliveries and tubal ligations, assist with circumcisions, prepare delivery suites, and support newborn screenings and specimen preparation.
• Offer continuous video observation and verbal redirection for patient safety in telesitter duties.

Education

• Completion of a nurse assistant training program, or
• Six months of nurse assistant experience, or
• Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) or Advanced EMT experience, or
• Successful completion of the first semester of nursing school clinical including basic clinical skills.

Preferred Education and Experience

• One year of nurse assistant experience in an acute care environment.
• Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certification.
• Phlebotomy Technician (PBT) certification (ASCP preferred).

Licenses and Certifications

• Healthcare Provider Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through AHA or ARC prior to start date.

Skills and Attributes

• Effective communication and multitasking abilities.
• Basic computer and data entry skills.
• Integrity, compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence in patient care and teamwork.
• Ability to manage conflict, inspire others, and maintain positive relationships.

This role offers competitive pay and a supportive environment where you can take pride in making a meaningful difference every day in a regional healthcare setting serving a diverse population from newborns to geriatrics.