RN/LPN Student Nursing Assistant Per Diem - 5 South (Start Over Winter Break)

RN/LPN Student Nursing Assistant

Are you a nursing student looking to build clinical experience outside the classroom while gaining exposure to patient care and unit operations? Geisinger South Wilkes Barre is hiring RN/LPN Student Nursing Assistants to join our 5 South team in a per diem capacity. This role begins over winter break to allow for a two-week orientation and continues into the spring semester, offering flexible scheduling that works around your academic commitments. As a Student Nursing Assistant, you'll support the care team by performing a variety of direct patient care tasks and clerical duties, depending on unit needs. Your contributions will help enhance the team's ability to deliver high-quality care. You'll also gain valuable experience working with patients across different age ranges in your assigned clinical area.

Job Duties:

• Provides patient care as directed, within the nursing assistant scope of practice, in meeting the multidisciplinary care plan established for each patient.
• Identifies, observes, and documents the physical needs of the patient according to established standards. Reports any changes in patient condition to licensed personnel in a timely manner.
• Obtains and maintains the integrity of specimens in accordance with policy and procedure, according to physician order.
• Provides for or assists patients with activities of daily living and fulfills designated and delegated responsibilities for ongoing continuum of care. Includes patient hygiene and changing linens.
• Provides one to one patient safety watch as assigned following established policies and procedures.
• Accurately processes specimens and provides timely transport of the specimen to the laboratory.
• Performs point of care patient testing and point of care instrument maintenance and quality control.
• Assists in problem solving, trouble shooting and taking corrective measures in care and maintenance of equipment and supplies.
• Serves as a preceptor and mentor for new staff and students in a positive manner.
• Performs clerical duties for admissions, transfers, discharges, and deaths according to standards and facilitates patient throughput activities. Transcribes and processes orders according to unit standard.
• Releases and confirms ordered tests to appropriate departments.
• Coordinates transportation of patients to multiple tests.
• Participates in obtaining and communicating electronic information as pertinent to the nursing unit. Schedules tests, faxes consults, etc.
• Assists in ordering supplies. Stationery items as well as floor stock, patient needs, individual nursing supplies.
• Communicates with food services to ensure appropriate patient diets.
• Operates, problem solves, and takes corrective measures for clerical equipment. To include scheduling maintenance of computers, fax machines, phones, etc.
• Staff have access to non-controlled medications storage and supply areas and can transport non-controlled medications as necessary to meet the needs of the clinic or unit.
• Assists with transporting non-controlled medications to and from Pharmacy and within the unit as needed.
• Assists with transporting blood products to and from Blood Bank as needed.

Position Details:

• Per diem, non-benefits eligible position.
• Rotation schedule based on department needs.
• Must be currently enrolled in an RN or LPN educational program with a goal to attain licensure.
• Must successfully complete a 2-week Residency Program/Orientation training which will require full time hours for initial orientation period.

Education: High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED)-Nursing (Required)

Experience: Minimum of 1 year-Related work experience (Preferred)

Certification(s) and License(s):

Skills:

• Our Purpose & Values: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.

• Kindness: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
• Excellence: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
• Learning: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
• Innovation: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
• Safety: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality.

We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran.