Certified Nursing Assistant; CNA

Position Overview

IL-SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital – Mount Vernon, Worker Type:
Regular. Job Highlights:
Float pool y's Hospital – Centralia and Good Samaritan Hospital – Mount Vernon.

Schedule:

Part‑time Nights 7p–7a with every third weekend rotation.

Join Our Team and make a difference each day while enjoying competitive pay, great benefits, and a supportive work environment. We offer competitive, affordable health insurance and benefits designed to support you and your family. Fulfill your calling with SSM Health.

Pay Range: $15.63–$23.45 per hour.

SSM Health values the skills and talents that each team member brings to our organization. Compensation for this role is based on a variety of components including relevant experience, labor market, and other qualifications.

Assists in performing a variety of nursing care services for patients.

• Receives patient care assignment from the registered nurse (RN) in charge.
• Initiates delegated tasks based on demonstrated competence in performing nursing activities for specific patient age group served.
• Collects and documents data for admission assessment and reassessment at specific times for patient population.
• Documents and provides appropriate data to the RN and/or LPN for analysis and validation of patient’s response to care or treatment when significant change occurs in the patient’s condition.
• Contributes to safety and quality care by relaying information via charting and communicating to team members.
• Informs licensed nurse of any changes in patient condition/needs, patient complaints, and patient/significant other educational needs.
• Answers patients’ calls for help, takes vital signs, and monitors behavior and physical condition for progress or deterioration.
• Assists with baths, ambulating, feeding, skin care, personal and oral hygiene and making occupied and unoccupied beds.
• Performs dressing changes, enemas, ostomy care, toileting, turning, cough and deep breathing, catheter care, collection of biological specimens, measuring and recording intake and output of fluids.
• Prepares patients for discharge and accompanies them upon dismissal as indicated.
• Stocks and maintains supplies and equipment in keeping with patient care needs and cost containment.
• Utilizes time and supplies economically and conscientiously.
• Assists with delegated clerical duties such as answering telephones, relaying messages, transcription of physician orders, preparing and organizing the patient’s medical record.
• Orients new patients and significant others to the nursing unit.
• Performs mechanical and manual operation of equipment as recommended in user’s manual, with ability to recognize common mechanical problems and initiate appropriate corrective action.
• May perform point of care testing according to policies and procedures.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education equivalency for licensing. No experience required.

Constant standing and walking; frequent use of hearing and speech to share information via oral communication; frequent use of hearing to distinguish body sounds or alarms; frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0–25 lbs.; frequent reaching, gripping, keyboard use/data entry; frequent use of vision for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors;

occasional bending, stooping, crawling, kneeling, sitting, squatting, repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements; occasional use of vision to judge distances and spatial relationships; occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25–50 lbs.; occasional lifting/moving patients; occasional use of smell to detect/recognize odors; occasional driving.

• State of Illinois:
  Basic Life Support Health Care Provider (BLS HCP) – American Heart Association (AHA) and Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) – Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH).
• State of Missouri:
  Basic Life Support Health Care Provider (BLS HCP) – American Heart Association (AHA) and Certified Nurse…