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Knoxville, Tennessee
PATIENT CARE ASSISTANT
Overview
Patient Care Assistant, Post Intervention Unit
PRN/OCC, Hours vary, Night Shift
Parkwest Overview:
Since admitting our first patient in 1973, Parkwest has been at the vanguard of healthcare in East Tennessee. We are an eight-time Top 100 Heart Hospital and have received multiple awards for excellence in emergency care, clinical practice, and patient satisfaction. Learn more about our professional accolades.
Position Summary:
Functions as a direct patient caregiver performing tasks to assist registered nurses. Performs hands-on care, assistance with ADL’s and specified technical tasks for a group of patients under the supervision of the Team Leader.
Recruiter: Jason Shubert || jshuber1@covhlth.com || 865-374-5393
Responsibilities
+ Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements.
+ Encourage patients to turn, cough, and take deep breaths and to use incentive spirometry as specified by Plan of Care.
+ Ambulate, and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs and transport when necessary.
+ Attends to nutritional needs of patient which may include distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers,
+ Provides morning or evening care, which may include bed bath, oral hygiene, combing hair, back care, dressing patient, changing bed linen, cleaning over-bed table and bedside stand, straightening room, and other supportive care as needed.
+ Empty drains, canisters, urine bags, bedpans and emesis basins and record intake and output.
+ Assists in maintaining a safe environment, which may include reporting equipment that is out of order, appropriate handling of linen and storing of supplies.
+ Provides general care such as positioning, lifting or turning patients; assisting in use of bedpan, urinal or commode; preoperative supportive care; and application/removal of abdominal binders or anti-embolism stockings and sequential compression devices.
+ Empty & clean ostomy bag, per procedure.
+ Collect urine, stool and sputum specimen as ordered.
+ Perform tasks such as ROM, assist with ambulatory devices as specified by the patients' plan of care.
+ Perform phlebotomy (requires additional training). To include correct labeling using two patient identifiers, maintenance of lab-draw supplies, rotating and restocking.
+ Perform EKG (requires special training).
+ Promptly answer patient call lights and respond to patient requests.
+ Report significant changes in patients' condition to RN.
+ Help to maintain clean and orderly patient and work environment.
+ Employ all established infection control policies including standard precautions, transmission-based isolation precautions, OSHA standards, safety measures and proper body mechanics in performance of job.
+ Document/maintain patient record as appropriate.
+ Gathers equipment for O2 set up. Checks O2 for connection and proper placement.
+ Checks for proper functioning of equipment at patient bedside
+ Ambulate patients with oxygen.
+ Set up suction equipment and check for proper function.
+ Demonstrates knowledge and competency in providing for age-specific needs of the population served.
+ Demonstrates ability to perform skills on the Nursing Assistant checklist.
+ Follows policies, procedures, and safety standards. Completes required education assignments annually. Works toward achieving goals and objectives, and participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
+ Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Education:
None specified; will accept any combination of formal education and/or prior work experience sufficient to demonstrate possession of the knowledge, skill and ability needed to perform the essential tasks of the job, typically such as would be equivalent to a high school diploma or GED. Preference may be given to individuals possessing a HS diploma or GED.
Minimum Experience:
None
Licensure Requirement:
CPR required
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Job Title PATIENT CARE ASSISTANT
ID 3920366
Facility Parkwest Medical Center
Department Name POST INTERVENTN UNIT
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