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Complete CNA coursework while you work at CHI as a Healthcare Support Tech.  You’ll gain valuable skills and experience to aid in the successful completion of the CNA Advance program. If you have a desire to advance your career in a healthcare community paired with a strong work history and customer service skills, we want to talk to you.    What you’ll do: - Screen employees, patients, and guests before gaining admittance to our facilities. - Contribute to a culture of safety by providing assistance to coworkers in use of personal protective equipment. - Distribute medical supplies and equipment to patient care areas. Restocks supplies and rotates inventory.  - Under the direction and supervision of the Registered Nurse, participates in providing a safe and therapeutic environment for the patient who is confused, impulsive, unable to perform teach back, unable to understand, or at risk for self-harm or injury. - Documents per policy in the healthcare record - Facilitate effective communication by fielding incoming calls, accepting and communicating with visitors, and relaying pertinent information to appropriate staff. - Respond appropriately in emergency situations as support for clinical staff. - Actively participates in ongoing education to take and pass the CNA state exam in order to transition to a CNA role.

Complete CNA coursework while you work at CHI as a Healthcare Support Tech.  You’ll gain valuable skills and experience to aid in the successful completion of the CNA Advance program. If you have a desire to advance your career in a healthcare community paired with a strong work history and customer service skills, we want to talk to you.    What you’ll do: - Screen employees, patients, and guests before gaining admittance to our facilities. - Contribute to a culture of safety by providing assistance to coworkers in use of personal protective equipment. - Distribute medical supplies and equipment to patient care areas. Restocks supplies and rotates inventory.  - Under the direction and supervision of the Registered Nurse, participates in providing a safe and therapeutic environment for the patient who is confused, impulsive, unable to perform teach back, unable to understand, or at risk for self-harm or injury. - Documents per policy in the healthcare record - Facilitate effective communication by fielding incoming calls, accepting and communicating with visitors, and relaying pertinent information to appropriate staff. - Respond appropriately in emergency situations as support for clinical staff. - Actively participates in ongoing education to take and pass the CNA state exam in order to transition to a CNA role.

As a Registered Nurse, you will be responsible for delivering the highest quality patient care according to the specific orders of each patient’s individual physician. This will involve, utilizing your knowledge and skills to educate patients and their families on prevention and healthy habits. Additional responsibilities for this health care role include: - Monitoring patients’ conditions and assessing their needs - Collaborating with physicians and nurses to devise individualized care plans for patients - Administering patients’ medications and providing treatments according to physicians’ orders - Fostering a supportive and compassionate environment to care for patients and their families

**Eligible for New Hire $10,000 Sign-on Bonus!** **Up to $10,000 Education Assistance  Available**   The newly expanded Heart/Vascular Unit at CUMC-Bergan offers universal care of all levels related to heart/vascular.  As a Registered Nurse, you will be responsible for delivering the highest quality patient care according to the specific orders of each patient’s individual physician. This will involve, utilizing your knowledge and skills to educate patients and their families on prevention and healthy habits. Additional responsibilities for this health care role include: - Monitoring patients’ conditions and assessing their needs - Collaborating with physicians and nurses to devise individualized care plans for patients - Administering patients’ medications and providing treatments according to physicians’ orders - Fostering a supportive and compassionate environment to care for patients and their families

Expectations: - Support and maintain patient flow to reduce patient wait times during clinic - Efficiently manage time by prioritizing each patients’ needs - Return/ Direct patient phone calls  - Record/ verify medical records such as medical histories, medication reconciliations, and vital signs - Coordinate with hospital admissions and laboratory services - Diagnostic Testing: EKGs, Stress Echos, Lab, Nuclear Medicine

Responsible for covering all Patient Services personnel and their job responsibilities.  This includes the following positions:  Switchboard Operator, Front Desk Check In, Physician Scheduler, and Device Desk. Responsible for checking in patients, verify demographic information for nuclear studies.  Responsible for obtaining prior authorization from insurance carriers for nuclear studies. This may require traveling to our satellite clinics to cover staff when necessary.  This position also may include other duties as assigned by Patient Services Supervisor.    - Attention to Detail: Able to accurately perform the assigned work without error.  Expected to understand patient health insurance providers and scheduling protocol for physicians and APNs.   - Multi-tasking: Able to work through large volume reports, communicate to hospital staff, clinic staff and patients, and assist with answering the phone or helping a patient in the office while maintaining accuracy and complete tasks.  Able to schedule clinic appointments per protocol for different physician and departments. - Reasoning Abilities: Exhibits ability to think through the scheduling process and appropriately schedule hospital and clinic procedures/appointments. Understands where to direct patient questions when answering the phone and can successfully hand off to other team members when appropriate.  Identifies problems and presents to Supervisor if unable to resolve.  - Teamwork Orientation: Works cooperatively & collaboratively with others toward the accomplishment of shared goals. - Achieves Results: Reflects a drive to achieve and outperform.  Accepts responsibility for actions and results. - Learning and Growth: Has a commitment to continuous learning. - Communication: Practices attentive and active listening and can restate opinions of others; communicates messages in a way that has the desired effect.

Expectations: - Support and maintain patient flow to reduce patient wait times during clinic - Efficiently manage time by prioritizing each patients’ needs - Return/ Direct patient phone calls - Record/ verify medical records such as medical histories, medication reconciliations, and vital signs - Coordinate with hospital admissions and laboratory services - Diagnostic Testing: EKGs, Stress Echos, Lab, Nuclear Medicine - Assist clinic RN staff as needed

Expectations: - Support and maintain patient flow to reduce patient wait times during clinic - Efficiently manage time by prioritizing each patients’ needs - Return/ Direct patient phone calls - Record/ verify medical records such as medical histories, medication reconciliations, and vital signs - Coordinate with hospital admissions and laboratory services - Diagnostic Testing: EKGs, Stress Echos, Lab, Nuclear Medicine - Assist clinic RN staff as needed

Expectations:   - Answers phones promptly and courteously - Responds to mail regarding account inquiries - Answers patient questions - Maintains records and files current for easy retrieval - Enters patient information for appointments - Reviews daily transaction journals to ensure all transaction batches are balanced - Handles patient accounts confidentially - Post all charges and payments to each designated patient account - Handles collections of patient money in accurate honest mannerism - Handles patient accounts in confidential mannerism - Effective in personal time management - Maintains good working relationships with patients, clinic staff, billing agency and insurance companies - Comply with regulatory standards for the industry and the clinic - Schedule patient appointments

Expectations:   - Answers phones promptly and courteously - Responds to mail regarding account inquiries - Answers patient questions - Maintains records and files current for easy retrieval - Enters patient information for appointments - Reviews daily transaction journals to ensure all transaction batches are balanced - Handles patient accounts confidentially - Post all charges and payments to each designated patient account - Handles collections of patient money in accurate honest mannerism - Handles patient accounts in confidential mannerism - Effective in personal time management - Maintains good working relationships with patients, clinic staff, billing agency and insurance companies - Comply with regulatory standards for the industry and the clinic - Schedule patient appointments

Working as a RN Coordinator in our Heart Clinic offers a variety of clinical challenges to nurses choosing this clinical area. Your care focuses on the medical, surgical and educational care of patients with advanced heart failure who are potential candidates for mechanical circulatory support. You will guide patients through clinic testing and provide the continuum of care throughout cardiac workups and interact with patients and their family as you advocate with multidisciplinary care teams.

**Eligible for $10,000 Sign-on Bonus & $10,000 Educational Assistance!**   As a Registered Nurse, you will be responsible for delivering the highest quality patient care according to the specific orders of each patient’s individual physician. This will involve, utilizing your knowledge and skills to educate patients and their families on prevention and healthy habits. Additional responsibilities for this health care role include: - Monitoring patients’ conditions and assessing their needs - Collaborating with physicians and nurses to devise individualized care plans for patients - Administering patients’ medications and providing treatments according to physicians’ orders - Fostering a supportive and compassionate environment to care for patients and their families

**Eligible for New Sign-on Bonus!** As a Registered Nurse, you will be responsible for delivering the highest quality patient care according to the specific orders of each patient’s individual physician. This will involve, utilizing your knowledge and skills to educate patients and their families on prevention and healthy habits. Additional responsibilities for this health care role include: - Monitoring patients’ conditions and assessing their needs - Collaborating with physicians and nurses to devise individualized care plans for patients - Administering patients’ medications and providing treatments according to physicians’ orders - Fostering a supportive and compassionate environment to care for patients and their families

Expectations:  - File and scan medical records into electronic medical records system according to established policies and procedures. - Request and provide medical information to and from patient care providers in strict accordance with HIPAA and all policies and procedures. - Maintain medical records and other correspondence according to policy. - Maintain organization of information center and physical charts. - Manage fax queue and assist callers by answering and referring phone calls or other inquiries to ensure accurate and timely communication. - Manage the flow of interdepartmental, outgoing, and incoming mail. - Pull and file charts for patient appointments, staff, physicians and/or other requests. - File loose sheets (patient records) in appropriate chart. - May answer phone inquiries regarding medical records. - Perform other duties as assigned.

Provides specialized and routine histologic procedures and tests to aid in the detection, diagnosis and treatment of disease.  Demonstrates knowledge learned through certification. Essential Key Job Responsibilities - Works all benches of histology workflow-registration, embedding, microtomy, distribution - Tissue processors- works with, performs troubleshooting - Maintains accuracy of patient identification on all specimens throughout the histology workflow - Performs histochemical and immunohistochemical staining - Routine maintenance of equipment/reagents - Grossing bench-performs surgical specimen dissection on simple to mildly complex specimens, frozen sections, maintain cryostats - Dictates complete and accurate descriptions using voice recognition technology

GENERAL SUMMARY: Acts as technical information resource for MercyOne Des Moines Laboratory. Identifies problems that may adversely affect test performance and/or results and uses knowledge, critical thinking skills, and judgment to troubleshoot and resolve them.  May be assigned to assume the duties of a charge technologist. Performs tasks and procedures specific to assigned department with minimal supervision.       ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: - Uses educational and technical expertise to troubleshoot issues related to specimen quality, instrument/method performance and analytical interferences to ensure patient results match clinical status. - Assists and supports quality management systems and performance improvement initiatives. - Works independently, organizing work to meet established deadlines and records. - Maintains supply inventories. - Trains new employees and acts as a preceptor for medical laboratory science students. - Operates laboratory information systems, personal computers, and instrument-related computer software. - Provides exceptional customer service to internal and external customers.   Functions specific to West Lakes Lab, Blood Bank, Hematology, Chemistry and Microbiology Sections: - Performs complex laboratory procedures utilized for the diagnosis and treatment of disease as appropriate for patient age to include neonates, infants, children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric adults; recognizes deviation from expected results; analyzes and corrects problems using scientific principles. - Analyzes quality control data, makes judgments concerning the results, and takes appropriate action to maintain test accuracy and precision. - Performs preventive maintenance and basic troubleshooting of instrumentation and equipment. - Performs new instrument or procedure implementation and training. - May be assigned to assume duties of charge technologist in absence of supervisor/manager.   Functions specific to Technical Resolution Section: - Serves as technical resource for tests referred from MercyOne Des Moines Laboratory to other testing facilities.  - Scans or enters send-out testing reports into LIS and maintains standing orders for outreach patients/clients. - Performs billing functions including but not limited to:  entering test charges & credits and proper diagnosis codes when provided by client. - Ensures timely follow-up of customer complaints, issues and need for redraws.  - Documents all contact made with client in client services incident management system. - Rectifies registration errors on outreach patients such as updating/correcting demographic information, updating “bill to” information, and ensuring patient report is issued under correct registration account.  #MissionCritical

GENERAL SUMMARY: Performs highly complex clinical laboratory tests in histocompatibility and flow cytometry that requires a professional level of knowledge to analyze and interpret results.  Performs testing for both living and deceased donor transplantation including human leukocyte antigen (HLA) testing, antibody screening, and flow cytometric crossmatches.  Requires ability to work independently, use of critical thinking, and strong communication skills to ensure vital patient information is accurately shared between transplant teams.  Uses flow cytometry skills to perform antigenic testing on blood, tissue, and body fluids for diagnosis of disease.       ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: - Performs immunological work-ups within the required time of current organ preservation methods. - Independently verifies results and reports conclusions directly to physicians. - Performs crossmatches between recipients and donors (live or deceased) identified by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) and the Iowa Donor Network. Responsible for extent of crossmatching and selection of appropriate sera. - Screens potential recipients for anti-HLA antibody determination. - Records and reviews test results for accuracy. Completes required administrative tasks and gives reports to medical director for review. - Performs flow cytometry analysis for lymphoma/leukemia immunotyping and lymphyocyte subsets/CD4s among other tests. - Participates in competency assessments and proficiency testing. - Performs complex laboratory procedures utilized for the diagnosis and treatment of disease as appropriate for patient age to include neonates, infants, children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric adults; recognizes deviation from expected results; analyzes and corrects problems using scientific principles. - Rotates into call schedules as determined by department. - Analyzes quality control data, makes judgments concerning the results, and takes appropriate action to maintain test accuracy and precision. - Assists and supports quality management systems and performance improvement initiatives. Utilizes LEAN principles/productivity standards. - Performs preventive maintenance and basic troubleshooting of instrumentation and equipment. - Works independently, organizing work to meet established deadlines and records. - Performs new instrument or procedure implementation and training. - Maintains supply inventories. - Trains new employees and acts as a preceptor for medical laboratory science students. - Operates laboratory information systems, personal computers, and instrument-related computer software. #MissionCritical #CHH-LI

Histology Lab Assistant As a Lab Assistant, you will be responsible for performing specimen processing, storage, and transport of laboratory specimens. Accession specimens into the Laboratory Information System (LIS), assist Medical Technologists or Medical Laboratory Technicians by processing specimens, help with inventory management, be proficient in phlebotomy and related duties, and cross-trained in all areas as determined. Also, as a Lab Assistant II, you will also be responsible for daily coordination of section assignments to ensure efficient specimen collection and processing if applicable; training and continuing education of section employees, maintaining quality assurance records, and monitoring maintenance records.

Our Histotechnicians play a huge role in supporting the healthcare team members in determining the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. Our patients rely on their skills and expertise in supporting their healthcare needs and we want to add more talent to our already incredible team in our Histology department. If you have a passion for histology, we want to talk to you!   What you will do: - Receives, accessions as required, and prepares tissues and other biological materials using accepted histological techniques; performs proper labeling, fixation, embedding, microtomy, staining, and coverslipping. - Prepares and evaluates stains, reagents, and solutions necessary for slide preparation following established policies and procedures. - Performs quality control, preventative maintenance, and troubleshooting of instruments and stains for optimal performance. - Follows all CAP and regulatory guidelines, demonstrating consistent adherence to national patient safety goals

At CHI Franciscan Health at Home, we're dedicated to making a difference in peoples' lives every day. It's what made you become a nurse in the first place. Join our team and make a difference with us!   We are offering a $2,500 Sign on Bonus!   The Licensed Practical Nurse performs patient care duties based on approved treatment plans. The Licensed Practical Nurse must be able to observe and report abnormal occurrences or changes in patients to the supervisor and document care provided. The Licensed Practical Nurse uses the nursing process to provide quality services to patients in a compassionate, professional, ethical and knowledgeable manner, thereby creating high levels of customer satisfaction and successful outcomes.   - Collaborates and coordinates patient care as a team with the designated RN Case Manager and other disciplines following plan of treatment and patient care plan, focusing on the right care at the right time for the right outcomes. - Performs visits as prescribed in the physician’s plan of treatment and in compliance with federal, state and county guidelines. - Makes skilled observations regarding patient’s physical and mental condition. - Reports changes in patient condition to appropriate personnel and the attending physician. - Provides patient care education to patient and other caregivers. - Participates in case conferences, summary reports, quarterly record review, annual program review and in-services or special case orientations. - Completes and submits all required documentation in an accurate and timely manner.   Why should you join our team? - Sign on Bonus! - Competitive pay with opportunities for bonuses - Referral Bonus - Flexible work schedule - Free CEUs - Mileage Reimbursement - Electronic charting - Paid Vacation, Holidays and Personal Days - Inexpensive Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance with different plans to choose from - Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) - Company paid Short term and Long term disability - Company-paid Life insurance equal to 2x annual salary - 401K Retirement Plan with employer contribution AND employer match!