Patient Care Associate is responsible for patient care and support activities promoting patient focused care within the Specialty Service. Supports registered nurse in patient care activities, such as assisting patient with activities of daily living, collecting specimens and performing procedures, maintaining a safe, clean environment, and other duties as needed.
Requirements
- Demonstrates ability to perform clinical/technical/service/administrative tasks
- Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care, based on physical, psychosocial, educational, safety, and related criteria
- Performs and records patient’s vital signs, documents intake and output and other data as assigned
- Obtains patient’s rating on pain scales as a fifth vital sign in all areas except Pediatrics
- Performs clinical procedures, such as specimen collection, blood glucose, venipuncture, EKG, application of compression devices, post-mortem care, and maintenance of skin integrity
- Assists patient with activities of daily living, such as feeding, bathing and/or toileting, ambulation, and mobilization
- Assists with dietary functions, including delivering and collecting patient trays at bedside, passing menus to patients and assisting them with menu completion
- Maintains a safe, clean and functional environment, including removing trash and bringing physical plant and equipment problems to the attention of the managers
- Transports patients to stretchers or wheelchairs, delivers and collects trays and bedside, delivers flowers to patients
- Strips units/cubicles, performs emergency clean-up, performs emergency transport, performs discharge bed making, transports specimens
- Updates communication board/discharge log, assembles medical records, updates Admission/Transfer/Discharge System/Processes
- Maintains supplies and care of equipment
- Participates in the department’s performance improvement activities, maintains patient/employee confidentiality, observes the Health Care System’s compliance policies
- Participates in the development of other staff members, meets regulatory, licensure and annual health assessment requirements, identifies learning strengths and needs, utilizes learning resources
- Demonstrates a professional, courteous, and respectful attitude in dealing with patients, families and significant others, displays courtesy, tact and patience during interactions with all members of the hospital staff and extended community
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Retirement Plan
- Paid Time Off
