Nurse Aide, Float Pool

Monument Health

Job Summary

Begin your healthcare career with Monument Health, no experience necessary! As a Nurse Aide, you will be a valued as an essential team member providing compassionate, patient-focused care. A Nurse Aide will improve patient experience and demonstrate what it means to be part of a team and raise the bar for patient care. You will make a difference. Every day!

Key Responsibilities

• Assist the nursing staff in providing excellent, effective, and safe patient care.
• Provide patient personal care, bathing, and personal hygiene.
• Participate in admission, dismissal, and transfer processes.
• Contribute to the permanent documentation of patient data.
• Complete essential functions of constant observer or telesitter where applicable, including monitoring the patient at bedside and/or remotely via audio/visual technology to promote patient safety while maintaining patient privacy and dignity.
• Completes patient cares and documentation accurately and in a timely manner according to policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Demonstrates the desire to grow as an employee, team, and facility.
• Positively supports and contributes to departmental development as evidenced by participating in meetings and training.
• As a member of the multidisciplinary team, contributes valuable input to the patient’s care planning process.
• Assesses and provides direct resident care needs to residents with supervised personal/rehabilitative cares as outlined in their individualized care plan to assist with maintaining or improving functional abilities, comfort, independence, and safety.
• Reports any safety concerns, abnormal parameters as defined for the patient population, or health concerns of the patient to the nurse.
• Encourages the patient to participate in their own activities of daily living and other aspects of the plan of care as appropriate.
• All other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• High School Diploma/GED Equivalent in General Studies
• Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) - South Dakota Board of Nursing
• 1+ years of related experience
• Ability to work assigned schedules and hours as determined by the department.

Physical Requirements

• Very Heavy work - exerting over 25 pounds of force constantly, and/or more than 50 pounds frequently, and/or more than 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or more than 100 pounds of force seldomly to move objects.
• Possible exposure to radiation.
• Frequent exposure to contaminated needles and infectious body substances.

About the Role

• Location: Rapid City, SD USA
• Department: RCH Clinical Coordinator Staff
• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 32
• Starting Pay Rate Range: $18.20 - $21.83
• Nurse Aide - Acute: $18.20-$20.92
• Certified Nurse Aide - Acute: $18.99-$21.83
• (Determined by the knowledge, skills, and experience of the applicant.)
• On the job training and continual support will help build knowledge and skills needed to provide best-in-class care and demonstrate cohesive teamwork.
• Vision: To be one team, to listen, to be inclusive, and to show we care. To do the right thing. Every time.