Nurse Helper
Tampa, FLFull-timeSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
The Nurse Helper assists nursing staff with patient care under the direction of a Registered Nurse. The role includes helping with activities of daily living while avoiding purposeful contact with body fluids or devices containing them. It also provides patient transport and mobility assistance, sitter duties, and visual monitoring within the hospital.
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At BayCare, we are proud to be one of the largest employers in the Tampa Bay area. Our network consists of 16 community-based hospitals, a long-term acute care facility, home health services, outpatient centers and thousands of physicians. With the support of more than 30,000 team members, we promote a forward-thinking philosophy that’s built on a foundation of trust, dignity, respect, responsibility and clinical excellence.
Summary:
Assists the nursing staff in delivery of patient care according to BayCare role specific responsibilities and as directed by the Registered Nurse (RN). Assists with activities of daily living without purposefully encountering any body fluids (i.e. blood, urine, stool, saliva, emesis, etc.) or any devices that contain body fluids (such as but not limited to urinary catheters, nasogastric tubes, drains, used basins, IV catheters, IV tubing, wounds, specimens, blood products, etc.). Performs patient transport assistance within the hospital, mobility assistance, sitter duties, and visual monitoring.
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Required Qualifications: Completion of Basic Life Support (BLS) certification within 30 days of hire. Standard WELLE® training is required. Must complete Nurse Helper training class prior to orientation on the nursing unit.
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Facility:
BayCare Health System, Nursing Administration-SJH
Location: St Josephs Main and Childrens
Status: Full Time, Exempt: No
Shift Hours: 6:45pm-7:15am
Shift: Shift 3
Shift 1 = Days, 2 = Evenings, 3 = Nights, 4 = Varies
Weekend Work: Every Other
On Call: No
How often will this team member be working remotely? Never
Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled
Position Nurse Helper
Location Tampa:St Josephs | Clinical | Full Time
Req ID 180273
How this job compares
Set against the 3,363 open Patient Care jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$70–94K/yr161 salary ranges
- Florida median$24–42/hr128 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 191 open Patient Care jobs in Florida and 3,363 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Florida
- AdventHealth81 open
- CVS Health26 open
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- Experience
- Patient Care postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (869 postings).
- Education
- 608 of the 3,363 open Patient Care jobs (18%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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