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Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) - Acute Care - OASIS
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Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) - Acute Care - OASIS

Denver Health

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Posted:
November 19, 2023
Location:
Denver, Colorado
Salary:
Open
We are recruiting for a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) - Acute Care - OASIS to join our team!


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Department

5 West - Oasis Unit

5W Oasis Transitional Care Unit (OTCU) is a 14-bed inpatient unit which provides care for patients with complex discharge barriers. Oasis has a diverse, interdisciplinary team to creatively address these barriers in an innovative, holistic care environment. Quality treatment for patients with multiple medical and psychosocial needs is provided by integrating nursing care and psycho-social assessment. This team facilitates meaningful, patient activities such as music, art and wellness programs. Each patient is treated with dignity and their strengths are identified in the highly personalized care provided. The Oasis team is high-performing, and with their innovative approach, they make a positive impact on patient outcomes. This nursing team is highly engaged and consistently ranks high in annual employee engagement surveys. The 5W Oasis nursing care model consists of an RN/LPN/CNA partnership. The nurse-to-patient ratio (RN/LPN) are 1:4 - 1:5. CNA staffing ratios are 1:7.

Job Description
Job Summary

Under close supervision, assists professional nursing and care providers in providing care to all patients with respect for their uniqueness. Collaborates with the RN and healthcare team. Assists with basic patient care and activities of daily living. Maintains unit specific documentation as required. Orders, maintains and utilizes supplies for the assigned unit.


Essential Functions:
  • Provides a safe environment for all patents. Assuring proper patient positions and patient care throughout the patient's stay. (10%)
  • Assists the RN/LPN in carrying out the established plan of care for assigned patients. (10%)
  • Practices sound safety and infection control practices according to hospital policy and procedures (10%)
  • Obtains vital signs and differentiates normal from abnormal findings. Reports abnormal values or conditions to the RN/LPN. (EX. Abnormal VS, bleeding, safety concerns, family issues.) (5%)
  • Participates as a member of the patient care team by asking for additional tasks, or helping others when not busy. (5%)
  • Accurately gathers information and performs data entry. (5%)
  • Performs transportation responsibilities when requested; transporting patients from one area to another; delivering laboratory specimens, blood products, medications and other hospital/medical items to the requested departments as needed; and includes access to the pneumatic tube system to transport items, including blood products and medications, to and from the tube and the desired location. (5%)
  • Documents Plan of Care making sure information is properly transcribed and complete (5%)
  • In coordination with the RN/LPN, implements care based on prioritized patient needs (5%)
  • Participates in a unique, outcome focused plan of care based on current nursing practice with measurable outcomes and goals for the patient/family (5%)
  • Participates with the Coordination of care with multidisciplinary team (5%)
  • Participates in the discharge planning process (5%)
  • Assists the RN/LPN to identify realistic expected outcomes to facilitate the patient's optimum level of health as well as the anticipated continuation of care. (5%)
  • Performs chart audits to promote quality improvement. (5%)
  • Promotes quality care based upon ongoing monitoring of patient/family response or changing condition inclusive of quality control of appropriate systems and equipment (5%)
  • Reports response of patient/family or changing condition to the RN/LPN and helps to appropriately update the plan of care. (5%)
  • Ensures practice and adheres to professional standards, statutes, regulation, hospital and departmental policies, and standards of care (5%)

Education:
  • No High School Diploma and/or No GED Required

Work Experience:
  • less than 1 year Required

Licenses:
  • CNA-Certified Nurse Aide - ANCC - American Nurses Credentialing Center Required and
  • BLS-Basic Life Support (BLS/CPR) - AHA - American Heart Association Required

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
  • Ensures all duties, responsibilities and competencies are conducted in a manner that is effective and appropriate to patients/clients to who care/service is being provided.
  • Demonstrates knowledge and applicability of the principles of growth and development over the life span, as well as demonstrating the ability to assess data reflecting the patient's status and interpreting appropriate cultural information of the patient(s) to whom care/ services is being delivered/provided.
  • Employee has completed and met their clinical competency standards
  • Ability to use medical equipment and instruments to administer patient care.
  • Skilled in maintaining effective working relationship with patients, employees, and the public.
  • Ability to react calmly and effectively in emergency situations
  • Ability to interpret adapt and apply guidelines and procedures
  • Ability to communicate clearly.
  • Microsoft Office Suite required.
  • EPIC documentation preferred.

Shift

Work Type

Regular

Salary

$18.50 - $23.08 / hr

Benefits

  • Competitive pay

  • Outstanding benefits

  • Education opportunities

  • Shared leadership and advancement opportunity

  • State-of-the-art facilities

  • Immediate retirement plan matching

  • Professional clinical advancement program

  • Participation in evidence-based projects

  • Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer

  • National Health Service Corps (NHCS) and Colorado Health Service Corps (CHSC) eligible employer

Our Values

  • Respect

  • Belonging

  • Accountability

  • Transparency

All job applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test, once a conditional offer of employment has been made.

Denver Health is an integrated, high-quality academic health care system considered a model for the nation that includes a Level I Trauma Center, a 555-bed acute care medical center, Denver's 911 emergency medical response system, 10 family health centers, 19 school-based health centers, Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety, a Public Health Institute, an HMO and The Denver Health Foundation.

As Colorado's primary, and essential, safety-net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided billions in uncompensated care for the uninsured. Denver Health is viewed as an Anchor Institution for the community, focusing on hiring and purchasing locally as applicable, serving as a pillar for community needs, and caring for more than 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year.

Located near downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer.

We strongly support diversity in the workforce and Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).


Denver Health values the unique ideas, talents and contributions reflective of the needs of our community. For more about our commitment to diversity visit: https://www.denverhealth.org/for-professionals/careers/diversity-and-inclusion

Internal Number: 10688
About Denver Health
Take your career to the next level at Denver Health, where we offer a robust benefits package and endless opportunities for growth. Denver Health is a nationally-ranked, locally-trusted, premier healthcare institution located in the heart of Denver, Colorado.Twenty-five percent of all Denver residents, or approximately 150,000 individuals, receive their health care here. We are known as an integrated health care system that encompasses multidisciplinary academic specialties, a community health system, a level I adult trauma center, pediatric emergency and urgent care center home to Denver Public Health and many of the nation's leaders in medicine.Denver Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer At Denver Health we pride ourselves on our commitment to diversity. Equal opportunity is a fundamental principle of Denver Health. As an equal opportunity employer, Denver Health is committed to recruit, hire, promote and administer all human resource actions in a non-discriminatory manner. Denver Health is committed to providing equal opportunities in all business practices and to all persons regardless of age, race, color, national origin, genetic information, religion, sex, pregnancy, disab...ility, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status or veteran status (collectively “protected status”). Denver Health strives to maintain a work environment that is free from unlawful harassment and discrimination and will not tolerate any such conduct by employees or directed at employees within the scope of their employment. Read the full Human Resources Employee Principles and Practices policy.
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