Nursing Department Assistant (NDA) III - Float Pool

Join Cleveland Clinic and experience world-class healthcare at its best. Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital is a proud Magnet Hospital awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice. On our team, you will provide stellar patient care, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a meaningful career at one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

The Float Pool offers the opportunity to care for diverse patient populations across multiple departments and units within the Cleveland Clinic system, including Medical-Surgical/Telemetry, Orthopaedics, the Emergency Department, and Behavioral Health. In this role, you will gain broad clinical experience while supporting Adult Behavioral Health, Geriatric Psychiatry, Mood Disorders, and Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation units, making it an excellent opportunity to build a well-rounded nursing career across a variety of specialty areas. As Nursing Department Assistant III on this unit, you will provide support with patient daily living activities and room maintenance alongside your fellow caregivers. In this role, you will also assist with various related tasks, such as performing EKGs, monitoring blood glucose levels, collecting specimens, documenting vital signs and more. This position is an excellent entry point into an exciting nursing career, propelling you into a world of innovation at Cleveland Clinic.

A caregiver in this role works days from 7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. with rotating weekend requirements.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Assist with wide variety of patient care tasks and collaborate with members of health care teams to promote the delivery of patient care.

• Organize patient care assignments to ensure timely delivery and completion of care on assigned patients.

• Document the care provided in patient record and label specimens properly.

• Ask patient about pain and report to the RN/LPN as needed.

• Maintain orderliness and cleanliness of units, including patient/unit equipment.

• Keep patient areas neat and uncluttered and prepare rooms for patient admissions.

• Clean and maintain patient/unit equipment (i.e., over-bed tables, bed pans, bedside commodes, etc.).

• Report any problems (i.e., equipment, supplies and maintenance problems) immediately to the RN.

• Make hourly patient rounds to assure safety measures are in place (i.e., side rails up as needed, beds are in low, locked position, phone and call lights are within the patients' reach and restraints are applied appropriately).

• Ensure all bed alarms are activated during hourly rounds.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• High School Diploma/GED

• Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• State Tested Nursing Assistant (STNA) Certification

• Previous nursing assistance experience

Physical Requirements:

• Requires full range of body motion including handling and lifting patient, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination.

• Requires frequent standing, walking, kneeling, reaching, squatting, bending/stooping and lifting patients.

• Requires corrected vision and hearing to normal range.

• Requires working under stressful conditions and irregular hours.

• Exposure to communicable diseases and/or body fluids.

• Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

• Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Light Work.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

Pay Range

Salaries [which may be] shown on independent job search websites reflect various market averages and do not represent information obtained directly from The Cleveland Clinic. Because we value each individual candidate, we invite and encourage each candidate to discuss salary/hourly specifics during the application and hiring process.

Cleveland Clinic Health System is pleased to be an equal employment employer: Women / Minorities / Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities