Nursing Assistant - Oncology - 36 Hours/Week - Nights

**Why work for Nebraska Methodist Health System?** At Nebraska Methodist Health System, we focus on providing exceptional care to the communities we serve and people we employ. We call it The Meaning of Care – a culture that has and will continue to set us apart. It’s helping families grow by making each delivery special, conveying a difficult diagnosis with a compassionate touch, going above and beyond for a patient’s needs, or giving a high five when a patient beats a disease or conquers a personal health challenge. We offer competitive pay, excellent benefits and a great work environment where all employees are valued! Most importantly, our employees are part of a team that makes a real difference in the communities we live and work in. **Job Summary:** Location: Methodist Hospital Address: 8303 Dodge St, Omaha, NE Work Schedule: 6:45pm to 7:15am, 3 shifts per week, every third weekend and rotating holidays Helps patients by supporting personal hygiene and daily living needs; providing comfort, transportation, and vital sign monitoring. Helps patients by cleaning and preparing treatment space while ensuring patient safety. **Responsibilities:** # **Essential Functions** 1. Provides appropriate care specific to the age of the customer/patient, to ensure understanding and comfort level of treatment, as outlined in the Age Specific Criteria. - Gives individualized customer service/patient care. - Completes age specific competency assessment. 2. Exhibits excellent interpersonal relations with patients, co-workers, physicians, and guests to ensure effective communications. - Responds to patient needs promptly and courteously. - Obtains feedback from patients and visitors regarding their hospital experience. - Communicates patient issues to the appropriate staff. - Maintains a positive attitude while responding to requests in a timely and accurate manner. - Communicates with other members of the health care team (food service, secretaries, housekeeping, etc.) as indicated. - Actively participates in report process. 3. Completes clinical activities identified in the patient's plan of care to meet patients' comfort/activity/sleep needs and other clinical patient needs as delegated by professional staff. - Reports patient comfort needs to nurse in a timely manner. - Assures that skin is clean and dry. - Reports any noticed skin changes. - Provides personal care and assists with ADL (activities of daily living). - Provides assistance with repositioning, turning and chair transfers. - Assists as necessary with ambulation. - Completes vital signs per patient's plan of care. - Weighs patients per patient's plan of care. - Reinforce patient education. - Provides transportation assistance. - Reports any variation from patient's plan of care to professional staff. - Attends to patient amenities; e.g., newspaper, mail. 4. Documents all data collected, in Cerner and/or on worksheets, accurately, completely, and in a timely manner to provide an accurate record of patient activities and response to activities. - Documentation is completed in an ongoing basis prior to end of shift. - Documentation reflects patient's responses to activities according to patient's plan of care. - Documentation reflects care delivered. 5. Provides housekeeping activities to contribute to a safe, efficient, effective and sanitary patient care environment. - Completes daily room cleaning according to established procedures for high dusting, vacuuming, mopping hard surface floors, disinfecting vertical surfaces, and spot cleaning vertical surfaces. - Keep rooms neat and tidy, free of clutter. - Removes trash and soiled linen from room each shift and as needed. - Maintains patient environment, such as spills and room temperature, or actively utilizes Integrated Services team to do so properly. - Distributes linens to servitors per par levels. - Straightens and restocks patient care areas per par levels. - Attends to patient amenities; e.g., newspapers, mail, watering…