Nursing Assistant

Franciscan Healthcare is seeking compassionate and dedicated Nursing Assistants to join our patient-centered care team. In this vital role, you’ll work alongside licensed medical professionals to deliver high-quality, hands-on care that makes a meaningful difference in patients’ lives every day.

As a Nursing Assistant, you will support patients with personal hygiene, comfort, and safety, assist with daily activities, and perform basic nursing procedures all while fostering a supportive, respectful, and healing environment. If you’re passionate about helping others and thrive in a collaborative healthcare setting, we invite you to bring your skills and heart to Franciscan Healthcare.

Hours: Part-time, day and night shifts; weekend, and holiday rotation; or PRN, hours vary as needed

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Providing patient care in regard to hygiene, mobility, comfort, psychosocial, spiritual and nutritional needs as well as assisting with admission, discharge, and transfers
• Carry out treatments, collection of specimens, vital signs, intake and output, and monitoring and emptying drainage devices
• Responsible for patient safety in regard to positioning mobility, bed rails, orientation and restraint use
• Perform clerical duties related to admission, discharge, status change, transfer and death
• Other duties expected but not limited to include: maintaining clean patient and work environments, stocking patient and work rooms and assembling patient charts, answering phones, providing family and visitor directions and helping physicians find chart reports
• Follow all applicable policies and procedures
• Responsible for fostering a team orientated atmosphere

QUALIFICATIONS: 

Education and/or Experience 

• Currently attending High School or have a High School diploma or GED
• Ability to obtain Basic Life Support within probationary period

Other Competencies

• Interpersonal skills requiring courtesy and tact are necessary to communicate effectively
• Medium strength job classification with lifting of 50 lbs. occasionally, 25 lbs. frequently and 10 lbs. constantly
• Possess level of fine motor skills to perform gripping, pinching, and grasping. Hearing and vision corrected to within normal limits
• Requires full range of body motion with frequent standing, walking, bending, stooping, and reaching
• Ability to change from one duty to another frequently
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload to meet unit needs
• Ability to follow written or verbal instructions exactly
• Ability to use computer for documentation
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload to meet unit needs