Under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse/licensed Nurse, this Job will assist with routine and repetitive patient care activities in a nursing unit. This Job also performs specific clerical, organizational, and patient-focused activities. The patient-focused tasks will be supportive in nature.
Responsibilities
Meets expectations of the applicable OneCHRISTUS Competencies: Leader of Self, Leader of Others, or Leader of Leaders.
Assists with the admission, transfer, and discharge of patients.
Completes pertinent documents.
Prepares rooms for admission by setting up IV pots, and adjusting bed to the appropriate level.
Assures that all patient belongings accompany the patient to the new unit or home at time of discharge.
Safely transports stable patients as required.
Maintains security/confidentiality when transporting patients and interacting with family and visitors.
Cleans, procures and returns equipment and supplies.
Run errands for the unit as required.
Assist Licensed personnel in providing a safe and comfortable environment at all times; replenish patient room with water, linen, and towels, as appropriate.
Perform unit-specific patient care tasks in accordance with the skills checklist and documents on the flowsheet.
Identify obvious changes in the patient's condition and take responsibility for reporting those changes promptly to the nurse in charge.
Assist with the ordering and maintenance of stock items according to established inventory when needed.
Keeps unit supplies in an organized and orderly fashion.
Respond appropriately to emergencies.
Communicate effectively with other team members during and between shifts.
Responds to phone calls and patient call lights.
Appropriately adapt assigned patient assessment, treatment, and/or care methods to accommodate the unique physical, psychosocial, cultural, age-specific, and other developmental needs of each patient served.
Demonstrates competence to perform assigned patient care responsibilities in a manner that meets the population-specific and developmental needs of patients served by the department.
Job
Requirements
Education/Skills
High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.
Experience
Patient care experience in an acute care setting is preferred.
Neighborhoods+Agua Fria is the close-in pocket repeatedly pitched to singles, young professionals, families, and retirees: Pueblo Revival, adobe, and Spanish-style homes, a $195,500 median purchase price and $722 median rent, murals, and about 15 minutes to the city center. Historic Eastside is the heritage-walkability core of classic adobe compounds. Artist–Hyde Park Road—including Bishop’s Lodge and Old Taos Highway—is alpine seclusion (median sale $1,497,500, median age 59.5, 10–20 minutes to the Plaza), not a starter-nurse neighborhood. For 15–20-minute country living, residents name Pojoaque (about $123,600), Nambe, and El Rancho; Niche’s 2026 Santa Fe-area suburb ranking puts Los Alamos and White Rock first and second and Pojoaque third, with Reddit also floating La Mesilla, Chamita, Alcalde, and Velarde.
Agua Fria is the close-in pocket repeatedly pitched to singles, young professionals, families, and retirees: Pueblo Revival, adobe, and Spanish-style homes, a $195,500 median purchase price and $722 median rent, murals, and about 15 minutes to the city center. Historic Eastside is the heritage-walkability core of classic adobe compounds.
Artist–Hyde Park Road—including Bishop’s Lodge and Old Taos Highway—is alpine seclusion (median sale $1,497,500, median age 59.5, 10–20 minutes to the Plaza), not a starter-nurse neighborhood. For 15–20-minute country living, residents name Pojoaque (about $123,600), Nambe, and El Rancho; Niche’s 2026 Santa Fe-area suburb ranking puts Los Alamos and White Rock first and second and Pojoaque third, with Reddit also floating La Mesilla, Chamita, Alcalde, and Velarde.
Getting around+These sources never name hospital campuses, transit lines, or parking. What they do give are drives to the core: Artist–Hyde Park is 10–20 minutes to Santa Fe Plaza; Agua Fria is within about 15 minutes of downtown; Pojoaque, Nambe, and El Rancho are described as 15–20-minute country commutes with groceries, fast food, and restaurants already there. La Cienega sits near the airport and I-25. Reddit commenters suggest La Mesilla, Chamita, Alcalde, and Velarde when they want a less life-consuming drive, while a Pojoaque resident notes you still commute into Santa Fe to do much of anything.
These sources never name hospital campuses, transit lines, or parking. What they do give are drives to the core: Artist–Hyde Park is 10–20 minutes to Santa Fe Plaza; Agua Fria is within about 15 minutes of downtown; Pojoaque, Nambe, and El Rancho are described as 15–20-minute country commutes with groceries, fast food, and restaurants already there.
La Cienega sits near the airport and I-25. Reddit commenters suggest La Mesilla, Chamita, Alcalde, and Velarde when they want a less life-consuming drive, while a Pojoaque resident notes you still commute into Santa Fe to do much of anything.
Outdoors+Dale Ball Trails and Ten Thousand Waves sit off the Artist–Hyde Park mountain side. Romero Park in Agua Fria is the picnic-and-jog park; Kokopelli Rafting Adventures runs regional river trips. Santa Fe National Forest trailheads are about seven miles from downtown; in-town Atalaya Mountain tops 9,000 feet, and the ski area tops 12,000 feet for skiing, sledding, hiking, and mountain biking. White Rock is cited for riverside recreation; Los Alamos reviews lean hard on nature access.
Dale Ball Trails and Ten Thousand Waves sit off the Artist–Hyde Park mountain side. Romero Park in Agua Fria is the picnic-and-jog park; Kokopelli Rafting Adventures runs regional river trips.
Santa Fe National Forest trailheads are about seven miles from downtown; in-town Atalaya Mountain tops 9,000 feet, and the ski area tops 12,000 feet for skiing, sledding, hiking, and mountain biking. White Rock is cited for riverside recreation; Los Alamos reviews lean hard on nature access.
Check the commute at your shift’s start and end, upfront housing costs, and whether moving assistance must be repaid if you leave.
Living in Santa Fe
Santa Fe is not a generic job-market city. At about 7,000 feet it is The City Different: Historic Eastside adobe, Canyon Road galleries, Meow Wolf, and Santa Fe National Forest trailheads roughly seven miles from downtown, with Atalaya over 9,000 feet and a ski area over 12,000. Housing splits hard—the citywide median is near $510,000, while 2026 suburb snapshots put Agua Fria around $195,500 (rent about $722) and Pojoaque around $123,600 versus Artist–Hyde Park near $1.5 million. Nurses who want a short hop to the core often look at Agua Fria (Ramirez Thomas, Capital High, Romero Park, Second Street Brewery); those who want acreage try Pojoaque, Nambe, or El Rancho at 15–20 minutes. Budget 30 days to acclimate, nearly 300 sunny days, July monsoon cells that usually pass in under an hour, and ice scraping if you lack a garage. Eat at The Shed and Tia Sophia’s downtown, Tortilla Flats and Plaza Cafe Southside for chile. The tradeoff is pace: four real seasons, thin late-night energy, and outlying towns that still send you into Santa Fe for most of life.
