CNA Float Pool Part Time Nights
Tenet Healthcare
- Palm Springs, CA
- Permanent
- Part-time
- Maintains current California Nursing Assistant Certification at all times
- Maintains current Basic Life Support (BLS) at all times
- Maintains current Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) training at all times
- Performs general nursing procedures, teaching, interventions, goal setting and treatments (within scope of practice) and reports significant findings to the Registered Nurse (RN)
- Supports changes in clinical practice and assists the department director with implementing changes in the hospital policies or practices
- Participates in orientation of new staff as needed
- Ensures compliance, knowledge and adherence with hospital's policies and procedures
- Maintains competence in practice
- Participates in quality improvement programs
- Provides skin care and hourly rounding to all assigned patients
- Knowledgeable of growth, development and treatment needed in various populations served
- Orients patients to room/unit and ensures, patient communication, white boards are complete
- Utilizes universal precautions and ensures others do so as well
- Ensures call lights are answered timely and report patient needs, which are outside of the scope of practice, to the appropriate personnel
- Adheres to hospital attendance/tardiness policy
- Attends all required education
- Organizes care and assumes responsibility for assigned group of patients
- Demonstrates guest relations in communication, cooperation and providing assistance to patients, physicians, co-workers and visitors in a prompt and courteous manner
- Advocates and ensures patient rights are upheld
- Identifies patient safety risks and ensures patient safety is maintained
- Obtains and records vital signs, patient weight, activities of daily living, intake and output
- Notifies RN and documents changes in patient's appearance or behavior
- Applies telemetry leads and troubleshooting if working on telemetry monitoring unit
- Proficient with braces and specialized equipment utilized by patients
- Assists in monitoring mental health patients
- Other duties as appropriately assigned by unit director
- High School Diploma or GED
- Education - entry level, vocational training, specialized skills and certification
- Current California Nursing Assistant Certification
- Current American Heart Association BLS
- CPI training completed within three months of hire
- Excellent customer service skills
- Ability to work with staff, patients and families
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work in a dynamic environment