Patient Care Coordinator, Acute-Renal, Pulmonary
3 days ago
As a Patient Care Assistant, you will play a vital role in providing direct patient care and support to patients with acute renal and pulmonary conditions. You will work under the supervision of a registered nurse to perform tasks that assist with daily living activities, technical tasks, and other supportive care as needed.
Key Responsibilities- Take and record vital signs, including 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 the patient's plan of care.
- Ambulate patients and assist them in and out of bed, into wheelchairs, and transport them when necessary.
- Attend to the nutritional needs of patients, which may include distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers.
- Provide morning or evening care, which may include bed baths, oral hygiene, combing hair, back care, dressing patients, changing bed linen, cleaning over-bed tables and bedside stands, straightening rooms, and other supportive care as needed.
- Empty drains, canisters, urine bags, bedpans, and emesis basins and record intake and output.
- Assist in maintaining a safe environment, which may include reporting equipment that is out of order, appropriate handling of linen, and storing of supplies.
- Provide general care, such as positioning, lifting, or turning patients; assisting in the use of bedpans, urinals, or commodes; preoperative supportive care; and application/removal of abdominal binders or anti-embolism stockings and sequential compression devices.
- Empty and clean ostomy bags, per procedure.
- Collect urine, stool, and sputum specimens as ordered.
- Perform tasks such as ROM, assist with ambulatory devices as specified by the patient's plan of care.
- Perform phlebotomy (requires additional training), including 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' conditions to RNs.
- Help to maintain clean and orderly patient and work environments.
- Employ all established infection control policies, including standard precautions, transmission-based isolation precautions, OSHA standards, safety measures, and proper body mechanics in the performance of the job.
- Document/maintain patient records as appropriate.
- Gather equipment for O2 setup, check O2 for connection and proper placement.
- Check for proper functioning of equipment at patient bedside.
- Ambulate patients with oxygen.
- Set up suction equipment and check for proper function.
- Demonstrate knowledge and competency in providing for age-specific needs of the population served.
- Demonstrate ability to perform skills on the Nursing Assistant checklist.
- Follow policies, procedures, and safety standards. Complete required education assignments annually. Work toward achieving goals and objectives, and participate in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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