Find Jobs
Find Jobs Near You – Available Work in Your Location
Skip to job details
UO
University of Missouri
Nursing Assistant - Ellis Fischel Cancer Clinic - PRN
Career Insights for Nursing Assistant
See where this job fits in the broader career landscape. Knowing your career path helps you see what's possible from here.
Scorecard
Based on Missouri data
Review key factors to help you decide if this role fits your goals. How is this calculated?
What they do
A Nursing Assistant provides hospital and nursing home patients with basic care and assists them with daily activities. Helps patients with dressing, washing, and feeding. May perform basic medical care under the direction of a nurse or other medical professional. These roles typically require completion of a regional agency-approved training program in order to obtain a certification before practicing.
$36,872 / year median in Missouri
-2% projected decline
Job Description
Shift :
PRN during Monday- Friday, 8am
- 5pm
Work Arrangement :
On-Site Department :
Ellis Fischel Cancer Center Clinic Facility :
Ellis Fischel Cancer Center- 1
Hospital Drive, Columbia, MO Compensation :
Base Pay:
$16.93 per hourABOUT THE JOB MU
Health Care is seeking a caring and dynamic Care Team Associate- Ambulatory to join our team at Ellis Fischel.
ABOUT MU HEALTH CARE MU
Health Care is proud to be named one of Forbes' Best-in-State Employers seven years in a row, and that's largely a result of the incredible culture and team we've built. At MU Health Care, we have an inspired, hard-working and collaborative environment driven by our mission to save and improve lives. Here, we believe anything is possible and rally around solutions. We celebrate innovation and offer opportunities to be a part of something bigger — to have a voice and role in the work that is serving our community and changing the field of medicine. Our academic health system — the only in mid-Missouri — is home to seven hospitals, including the region's only Level 1 Trauma Center and region's only Children's Hospital, as well as over 90 specialty clinics. Here you can define your career among our many clinical and nonclinical positions — with growth, opportunity and support every step of the way. Learn more about MU Health Care. Learn more about living in mid-Missouri.DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION
- Confirm the purpose for each visit, verify patient information by interviewing the patients, reviewing, or recording medical history, completing the clinic visit form, taking vital signs, and documenting this information in Electronic Medical Record (EMR).
- Prepare patients for the health care visit by providing examination gowns and drapes; positioning patients for examination or treatment; arranging examining room instruments, supplies, and equipment.
- Demonstrate the ability to organize workload and manage multiple tasks. Prompt responsiveness to patient needs and delivery of messages to the care team.
- Support care delivery by helping health care providers during examinations, preparing laboratory specimens, performing basic laboratory tests on specimens, disposing of contaminated supplies, sterilizing medical instruments, preparing patients for x-ray, taking electrocardiograms, changing dressings, removing IVs, point of care glucose testing, performing venipuncture to obtain a blood sample, and maintaining quality control checks.
- Maintain stock levels and order clinic supplies. Keep equipment operating by following operating instructions, troubleshooting breakdowns, maintaining supplies, performing preventive maintenance, and calling for repairs.
- May complete unit/department specific duties and expectations as outlined in department documents.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES
- Strong customer service team orientation.
- Consistently communicate in a professional and courteous manner.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Requires one of the following:- Completion of a Fundamentals of Nursing course; or
- Certified Nursing Assistant certification (CNA) or Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) exam registration; or
- Direct patient care experience in the past three (3) years as a nursing assistant, emergency medical technician, or surgical technician; or
- Completion within the last three (3) years of an Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP) training program; or
- Nursing licensure candidate who was unsuccessful on the state licensure examinations in the past three (3) years; or
- Completion of a nursing program outside the United States and is awaiting the licensure examination in this country; or
- Completion of the MU Health Care CTA-A specific training through the Center for Education and Development (CED) within thirty (30) days of start date.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Additional license/certification requirements as determined by the hiring department.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met with or without reasonable accommodation. The performance of these physical demands is an essential function of the job. This position is very active and requires ambulating, reaching, and moving objects weighing up to and over 20 lbs. This role also routinely comes into contact with patients who may have contagious illnesses. This position is in an ambulatory setting associated with an academic health system. Hours are established by each clinic but are generally 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday- Friday.