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. Its helping families grow by making each delivery special conveying a difficult diagnosis with a compassionate touch going above and beyond for a patients 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:

Responsibilities:

Essential Functions

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.

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.

Completes clinical activities identified in the patients 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.
• Ensures that skin is clean and dry.
• Reports any noticed skin changes.
• With oversight and/or direction provides personal care and assists with ADL (activities of daily living).
• With oversight and/or direction provides assistance with repositioning turning and chair transfers.
• With oversight and/or direction assists as necessary with ambulation.
• With oversight and/or direction completes vital signs per patients plan of care.
• With oversight and/or direction weighs patients per patients plan of care.
• With oversight and/or direction reinforces patient education.
• Provides transportation assistance.
• Reports any variation from patients plan of care to professional staff.
• Attends to patient amenities; e.g. newspaper mail.

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 patients responses to activities according to patients plan of care.
• Documentation reflects care delivered.

Provides 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 plants.

Consistently recognizes and utilizes measures to provide for safe efficient patient care and work environment.

• Answers Call Lights in a timely manner and response to the patient request and/or relays request to appropriate resource when necessary.
• Performs other duties as delegated/under the direction of the professional staff.
• Ensures coverage of all duties when self or other staff are off the nursing unit.
• Assists other team members when own work is complete.
• Appropriately reports incidents.
• Utilizes Standard Precautions and Transmission-based Precautions infection control techniques correctly and consistently.

Directly responsible to the licensed nurse and assists in the care of the patient by performing activities delegated by the license nurse based on task circumstance person communication and supervision.

Schedule:

28-40 hours per week. Variable schedule to include a variety of shifts.

Job Description:

Job Requirements

About Methodist:

Nebraska Methodist Health System is made up of four hospitals in Nebraska and southwest Iowa more than 30 clinic locations a nursing and allied health college and a medical supply distributorship and central laundry facility. From the day Methodist Hospital was chartered in 1891 service to our communities has been a top priority. Financial assistance health education outreach to our diverse communities and populations and other community benefit activities have always been central to our mission.

Nebraska Methodist Health System is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex age national origin disability veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or any other classification protected by Federal state or local law.