Per Diem Patient Care Associate
2 weeks ago
**Description**
As an integral part of the clinical care team, the Patient Care Associate is responsible for patient care and support activities promoting patient focused care within the Specialty Service. The Patient Care Associate supports the 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.
**Responsibilities**
1. Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care, based on physical, psychosocial, educational, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the age of the patients served in assigned area.
2. Performs and records patients vital signs, such as blood pressure, pulse, temperature and respirations. Documents intake and output and other data as assigned
3. Obtains patients rating on pain scales as a fifth vital sign in all areas except Pediatrics
5. Assists patient with activities of daily living, such as feeding, bathing and/or toileting. Orients patients to clinical environment. Assists patient with ambulation and all levels of mobilization.
6. Assists with dietary functions, including delivering and collecting patient trays at bedside, passing menus to patients and assisting them with menu completion, mixing nutritional supplements, reporting variation in eating patterns to RN/Dietitian, and maintaining accurate and timely systems for transmission of patient dietary orders and changes
7. Maintains a safe, clean and functional environment, including ensuring for the comfortable
8. Movement of the patient. Assists the patient in room maintenance, such as bed-stripping and trash removed, when necessary
9. Performs on-to-one observation or close observation status of patients, e.g. safety, elopement risk, or suicide prevention
10. Maintains isolation status for patients under direction of an RN and according to set procedures
11. Performs scheduled rounding on patients with emphasis on caring for toileting needs, comfort, and positioning and pain awareness. Documents on rounding log. Notifies RN is rounding has not been completed.
12. Utilizes Vocera system according to sign in/sign out protocol where activated
13. Greets visitors and answers telephones promptly and courteously. Escorts visitors to appropriate area, when necessary. Provides information as appropriate.
14. Answers Patient Call System and refers calls to appropriate staff.
15. Maintains a safe, clean and functional environment, including removing trash and bringing physical plant and equipment problems to the attention of the managers.
16. Transports patients to stretchers or wheelchairs, as required
17. Delivers and collects trays and bedside, delivers flowers to patients.
18. Strips units/cubicles
19. Preform emergency clean-up and transports.
20. Transport specimens.
**Qualifications**
- High School Diploma (graduate or equivalent).
- Certificate of completion of a medical assistant/patient care assistant with skills in venipuncture and EKG
- Three to nine months of healthcare experience preferred
- Heartsaver and/ or BCLS Certification from American Heart Association
Collective bargaining unit: SEIU 1199-MSBI
**Employer Description**
**Strength Through Diversity**
The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:
- Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential.
- Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination.
- Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers.
We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong and are able to professional advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.
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**“About the Mount Sinai Health System**:
The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, s
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