CNA Campus Float

CHI Health St. Elizabeth founded by the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in 1889 is a full-service 260-bed nonprofit regional medical center in Lincoln Neb. St. Elizabeth specializes in the treatment areas of newborn and pediatric care womens health burn and wound cardiology oncology emergency medicine orthopedics and neuroscience.

• Check-in with the outgoing CNA at the beginning of your shift to get a report on your patients.
• Conduct hourly rounds on patients checking vitals maintaining whiteboard information and assisting with care as needed.
• Assist patients with ambulation as necessary. This may mean helping them reach a recliner in their room walk to the bathroom or down the hall. Assist released patients in getting safely to their vehicles outside.
• Assist patients with hygiene needs. This can include a full bed bath an assisted bed bath or retrieving towels and soap for ambulatory patients.
• Help the bedside nurse with tube insertions such as an NG tube rectal tube or catheter. You may be holding a cup of water holding the patient or providing the nurse with supplies as needed and cleaning up after.
• Help the bedside nurse with any wound checks or dressing changes. This may mean holding the patient or supplies and cleaning up after.
• Change bed linens check patients weight and other tasks as assigned each day.

• Must be at least 16 years of age
• Successful Completion of the 75-hour state-approved Nursing Assistant course
• Active Nurse Aide (CNA) license in good standing in Nebraska
• Basic Life Support (BLS) through the American Heart Association