Patient Care Assistant (CNA) - Shriners Children's

Shriners Children’s is a family that respects, supports, and values each other. We are engaged in providing excellence in patient care, embracing multi-disciplinary education, and research with global impact. We foster a learning environment that values evidenced based practice, experience, innovation, and critical thinking. Our compassion, integrity, accountability, and resilience defines us as leaders in pediatric specialty care for our children and their families.

We have an opportunity for a Patient Care Assistant (CNA/ Certified Nursing Assistant) on our Inpatient Unit.  This is a Full Time, 12 hour shift (36 hours per week) position.

The Patient Care Assistant (CNA) assists in the delivery of patient care under the supervision of a Registered Nurse.  This includes but is not limited to:

• Provides direct patient care and performs routine tasks as assigned. 
• Organizes and prioritizes workload minimizing/eliminating undue delays, blacklogs, or disorder.
• Time management incorporates purposeful rounding; hourly during the day and every 2 hours during the night, anticipating patient and family needs jointly with the RN.
• Must consistently demonstrate caring and appropriate behavior when interacting with patients and families. 
• Monitors the activities of patients and maintains a safe physical and psychosocial environment.
• Able to adapt to changes in workload or patient assignments.
• Assists patients as needed in attending Child Life Activities and special events.
• Ensures patient care areas are neat and clean.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

High School Diploma /GED 

Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) in state of SC 

Basic Life Support (BLS) - or obtained within 3 months

Nursing Assistant experience

Preferred

One year of pediatric nursing assistant experience