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Patient Care Specialist
2 months ago
We are seeking a highly skilled and compassionate Patient Care Specialist to join our team at the University of Michigan Hospital. As a key member of our healthcare team, you will play a vital role in providing exceptional patient care and support to our patients and their families.
Key Responsibilities- Observation and Monitoring
- Obtain and record vital signs, including temperature, height/length, weight, oxygen saturation, and pain scores, and report any abnormal values to the Registered Nurse (RN).
- Respond to monitor alarms and utilize palpation/auscultation and Doppler to determine heart rate and blood pressure.
- Observe, monitor, and report the overt physical condition of assigned patients.
- Specimen Collection
- Perform point-of-care testing, maintain and calibrate equipment, and collect blood specimens from arterial, CVP, and PIC lines.
- Collect urine, stool, sputum, and swab specimens, and perform urine determination, including sugar, acetone, specific gravity, protein, and pH.
- Initiate, maintain, and record 24-hour urine collections.
- Intravenous Lines
- Discontinue peripheral IVs and remove peripheral IV dressings.
- Prime peripheral and central/pressure heparin set-ups, and time and date bags/tubing according to policy.
- Patient ADLs
- Assist patients with or administer routine personal hygiene, including baths, oral care, skin care, umbilical cord, and circumcision care.
- Perform preventative skin care, pre-operative preps, and perineal care.
- Provide toileting/bedpan/urinal, remove/empty foley catheters, and weigh diapers.
- Accompany, escort, ambulate, move, turn, dangle, lift, transport, and attend/hold/position patients.
- Assist with range of motion, apply rehabilitation equipment, release and apply devices, and provide patient nourishment.
- Tube Feedings
- Perform tube feedings of patients at the direction of the RN, and after the RN has established placement just prior to each tube feeding.
- Urinary Catheters
- Perform intermittent sterile urinary catheterizations.
- Perform clean urinary catheterizations (Pediatrics only).
- Connect, drain, and disconnect urinary catheters.
- Assemble intermittent bladder irrigation supplies.
- Discontinue urinary catheters.
- Apply condom catheters.
- Determine bladder status with Bladder Scanner.
- Enemas/Suppositories
- Administer cleansing enemas that do not contain medication.
- Apply external Fecal Incontinence Device bags.
- Wound Care
- Cleanse and redress non-sterile wounds.
- Perform simple sterile dressing changes, as in central line dressings.
- Assist RN with complex dressing changes.
- Care for permanent drainage sites and apply appropriate collection devices.
- Apply binders, ACE wraps, hot and cold applications, provide soaks, and special baths.
- Respiratory Care
- Assist with tracheostomy care on stable tracheotomies, including cleaning and redressing the area, and assisting with tape and tie changes.
- Perform endotracheal/tracheostomy tube suctioning after assessment by RN of patient stability.
- Provide ventilation to the intubated/trached patient with an Ambu bag.
- Assist with Endotracheal tube care and tape changes.
- Assist with P&PD by holding the patient.
- Measure and record chest tube drainage, set up Pleurevac, check Pleurevac water levels, and notify RN as needed.
- Coach/prompts patient to use incentive spirometer, and in coughing and deep breathing.
- Perform routine nasal and/or oral suctioning.
- Other Interventions
- Measure and obtain TED hose, apply Sequential Compression Devices.
- Perform post-mortem care and transport deceased patients to the morgue/pathology.
- Respond to call lights and alarms, answer unit telephone, and relay messages as needed.
- Empty and measure drainage collection and emesis.
- Assist RN with admissions, discharges, and transfers.
- Provide skin care at the direction of the RN, applying select topical emollients containing medication.
- Initiate emergency care utilizing the?ABC?s??Airway, Breathing, Circulation.
- Transport materials, supplies, medications, specimens, patient belongings, equipment, and medical records.
- Perform patient care comfort-safety rounds per unit routine.
- Assist with application and maintain restraints.
- Document care provided.
- Perform 12-lead ECG.
- Environment
- Stock supplies and equipment in patient care spaces.
- Set up patient rooms for admission or procedure.
- Maintain orderliness of the patient room and unit, including equipment/cords, linen, trash, patient belongings, etc.
- Clean and maintain inventory and outdates of equipment and supplies in patient care spaces.
- Clean assigned equipment and areas of work.
- Obtain, open, and arrange sterile instruments and supplies for specific procedures.
- Clean, pack, sterilize, and store instruments.
- Check emergency equipment.
- Perform clerical duties as needed.
- High school diploma, GED, or equivalent.
- Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) or Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) or junior status in an accredited BSN program or 2nd year in accredited ADN program or Bachelors Degree in Applied Medical Science.
- A minimum 1-year recent experience in an unlicensed assistive role in a patient care setting, such as nurse aide in a hospital setting, or a minimum 2 years experience in such a role in a nursing home or other healthcare environment.
- Ability to read and write.
- Basic computer skills.
- Coursework in an Allied Health field.
