CNA Med Surg PRN

Job Summary And Responsibilities

As our CNA at CHI St. Francis Health, now part of Common Spirit Health, you’ll help our patients feel safer and more comfortable by assisting with their basic daily life activities. Your success in this role comes from your genuine desire to help patients feel better, whether that means giving them fresh bed linens or checking their vitals. You’re diligent about your tasks, observant of patients’ conditions, and accept coaching well.

The Certified Nurse Assistant (C.N.A.) assists patients and/or clients with healthcare needs by supporting personal hygiene and daily living needs, providing compassion and comfort, transportation and vital sign monitoring under the supervision of an RN or LPN.

• Fulfills basic quality of life for patients of all ages
• Answer call lights
• Serve meals, feed patients
• Vital signs (BP, T, P, R, and SaO₂), weight measurements, and accu‑checks
• Make beds, keep rooms clean
• Ambulating, turning and positioning patients; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals
• Adjunct care by ice/heat treatments, non‑sterile dressings, therapeutic baths
• Toileting, measurement of and documenting I/O
• Knowledge of isolation techniques
• Reporting observations of patient to attending or charge nurse
• Documentation of care provided
• Safe patient handling (for self and patient)
• Rounding in ER
• Strong work ethic and ability
• Completion of mandatory regulatory and educational assignments
• Clerical duties:
• Answer/transfer calls using proper phone etiquette
• Print/FAX medical records
• Patient charges
• Assembling patient charts/folders
• ER quality controls
• Clean refrigerators ER/AC weekly
• Wipe down ER stretchers and commodes daily/WCs weekly

• Successful completion of a nursing assistant training course is required
• BLS certification
• Current education on age‑specific assessment and interventions from neonate through geriatric

• Previous experience as a nursing assistant in a hospital setting
• Certification of Nursing Assistant License
• High School Diploma

CHI St. Francis Health is a ministry serving the head of the Red River basin located in Breckenridge, Minnesota, founded by the Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls in 1899. St. Francis provides a full continuum of health care services, promoting health, healing, and community through works of care and compassion. It is part of Common Spirit Health.

$15.71 – $22.19 /hour

Entry level

Contract

Health Care Provider

Hospitals and Health Care