Description
Summary: Facilitates the provision of patient care by performing specific nursing tasks in accordance with organizational and regulatory compliance. Responsibilities:
- Associate demonstrates competence in the performance of duties and responsibilities related to the application of CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini's Core Values.
- Maintains continuous alertness and response to patient safety issues and participates in maintaining a safe and secure patient care environment:
- Uses patient identifiers as defined by policy
- Makes rounds to assure patient safety and satisfaction
- Answers call lights promptly
- Maintains falls precautions
- Performs complete hand-off communication clearly and effectively
- Provides emergency assistance within the defined role
- Maintains a hazard-free work environment
- Maintains unit security
- Participates in emergency and disaster plans
- Initiates call for emergencies and responds to staff needs
- Complies with regulatory agency guidelines/rules
- Performs appropriate luggage package checks, removing and properly securing contraband.
- Make rounds on patients at least every 15-minute intervals on both day and night
- Adheres to CHRISTUS policies and procedures and the standards of JC, OSHA, DHH, HIPAA, etc.:
- Maintains infection control standards by using proper isolation techniques, handwashing, and standard precautions
- Provides privacy and maintenance of confidentiality
- Promotes patients' right to make personal choices to accommodate their needs and be free from abuse, mistreatment, and neglect, reporting any instances of maltreatment to appropriate personnel
- Assists in resolving grievances and disputes
- Provides needed assistance in getting to and participating in patient and family meetings and other activities
- Maintains care and security of the patient's personal possessions
- Works with nursing staff to reduce the need for restraints
- Screens telephone calls and visitor requests to protect patient confidentiality
- Restricts access to patient information (e.g., charts, computers, etc.)
- Demonstrates knowledge of informed consent
- Recognizes age, diversity, and specific needs/issues of customers served
- Communicates with patient/family/staff members in ways that demonstrate:
- Spends time with and listens to patients and families as needed. Reports patients' and families' fears, problems, and anxieties to the professional staff.
- Awareness of age-specific needs and developmental tasks
- Sensitivity and openness for allowing the patient to make personal choices
- Reinforcement of the patient plan of care and education goals, e.g., use of an incentive spirometer, frequent ambulation, NPO status, etc.
- The ability to involve the patient/family as a source of emotional support
- Has good listening skills
- Treats patients with compassion
- Exhibits motivation and interest in working with psychiatric patients
- Communicates with team members demonstrating:
- Prompt reporting of changes in patient condition
- Timely awareness & reporting of clinical and equipment alarms
- Appropriate access to the chain-of-command
- Collaboration with the multidisciplinary team
- Exhibits capability to handle crisis situations appropriately
- Exhibits assertiveness skills when enforcing guidelines and rules
- Exhibits independent decision-making skills, yet is able to discern the need for professional staff input.
- Performs communication using various technology applications:
- Communicates with patients and staff via intercom
- Sends/receives documents via fax
- Sends/receives email and uses other programs/tools
- Contacts personnel via telecommunication systems (e.g., pagers, cell phones)
- Answers and processes calls using proper telephone etiquette
- Maintains responsibility for learning needs and remains current on all aspects of the nursing assistant role:
- Attends in-services, department, staff, or other required meetings
- Reviews facility-specific publications, memos, policies, and other job-related publications
- Yearly CPI Training
- Yearly CPR
- Utilize knowledge of computer skills as changes occur
- Performs basic nursing skills competently and in accordance with CHRISTUS policies and procedures following initial competence validation within the scope of practice:
- Taking, recording, and reporting vital signs
- Taking, recording, and reporting other clinical measurements such as pulse oximetry and bedside glucose
- Measuring, recording, and reporting height/weight, nutritional, and fluid intake/output
- Recognizing and reporting abnormal changes in body functioning
- Care of catheters, colostomies, and ileostomies within the scope of practice
- Specimen collection and delivery
- Using appropriate moving and lifting techniques and equipment
- Caring for the dying patient including post-mortem care
- Performs patient care skills needed to assure patient comfort and safety:
- Bathing, grooming (mouth care, shaving, hair care) and dressing
- Toileting, walking and skin care
- Tray distribution and assisting with eating (proper feeding techniques and aspiration precautions) and hydration
- Transferring, positioning, turning, and encouraging range of motion
- Recording patient care activities
- Assisting with transporting patients
- Assisting with admission, transfer, and/or discharge processes, including securing assistive devices and personal effects
- Participates in care of the patient environment and equipment:
- Maintains the cleanliness of the room and bedside area
- Replenishes water, linen, towels, etc.
- Maintains the cleanliness of bedside mechanical equipment, including oxygen and suction
- Reapplication of sequential compression devices
Requirements: Education/Skills
- High School Diploma required.
Experience
- 6 months of Healthcare Experience preferred.
Licenses, Registrations or Certifications
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification required.
- De-Escalation Certification or completion within 90 days of employment and recertified annually.
Work Schedule: 7PM - 7AM Work Type: Full Time
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Christus Health
Feb 27, 2026