CTA - Care Team Associate - Medicine Stepdown/Critical - Days

3 weeks ago


Oklahoma City, United States OU Health Full time
Position Title:
CTA - Care Team Associate - Medicine Stepdown/Critical - Days

Department:
Med Specialty Step Down

Job Description:
New to OU Health? Ask your recruiter about our competitive total rewards package including a $1,000 or $2,000 sign-on bonus

Location: University of Oklahoma Medical Center 6w

Shifts Available: Full-Time (36 hours/week) Days (7a-7p)

Working in OU Health's Medicine Specialty/Critical Care Stepdown, you have the opportunity to gain critical thinking, communication skills, time management, while making an impact in our community. This 31-bed step down unit is looking for team-oriented motivated, compassionate, and disciplined nurses who crave a stimulating learning experience. Our nurses provide care for patients with complex, varied, multifaceted disease processes and administer various drips (insulin, heparin, ketamine and cardiac). As a nurse in Medicine Specialty/Critical Care Stepdown, you will learn, and gain a deeper understanding of disease processes and care for patients with conditions ranging from renal failure, blood disorders, liver disease, pyschiatric, diabetes, respiratory failure, septic patients and more

General Description:

Under general supervision of a registered nurse, performs routine tasks in patient care.

Essential Responsibilities:

Responsibilities listed in this section are core to the position. Inability to perform these responsibilities with or without an accommodation may result in disqualification from the position.
  • Under direct supervision of the RN and in collaboration with the patient and family, systematically and continually monitors the patient's health status and implements the plan of care.
  • Carries out physician and nursing orders as directed by the RN.
  • Takes/records blood pressures, temperatures, pulse and weighs patients.
  • Performs blood glucose monitoring.
  • Monitors intravenous infusions and transfusions as directed by RN.
  • Sets up and discontinues telemetry monitor.
  • Collects specimens as directed.
  • Applies sterile dressings, removal of sutures, staples and/or drains. Performs all sterile procedures as assigned.
  • Performs stomal irrigation and applies colostomy pouches.
  • Performs oral and tracheostomy suctioning.
  • Administers tube feedings to patients.
  • Takes emergency actions as required.
  • Performs all treatments and procedures as defined on initial skills checklist.
  • Reports symptoms and significant changes in patient's condition or behavior to RN.
  • Assists with admission, discharge and transfer process.
  • Transports patients to and from various treatment centers when necessary; assists transporters in moving patients in and out of stretchers and wheelchairs.
  • Keeps the patient's room in clean and orderly condition; makes beds, replaces soiled linen.
  • Assists in restocking rooms with supplies and equipment as directed.
  • Duties may be performed for one patient or more than one patient.
  • When assigned to one patient, provides care, observes the patient and does not leave the patient alone.

General Responsibilities:
  • Performs other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:

Education & Experience: Six (6) months experience in a healthcare setting OR completion of a health related vocational education course OR completion of the first semester of clinical education in an associate or bachelor's degree program from a health care discipline.

License(s)/Certification(s)/Registration(s) Required: Current Basic Life Support issued by the American Heart Association required upon hire.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Knowledge of basic nursing techniques and procedures. Ability to communicate effectively, and follow written and oral instructions; and to maintain effective working relations with others.

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