Patient Care Assistant
3 days ago
Covenant Health is seeking a skilled Patient Care Assistant to join our team in the Acute-Renal, Pulmonary department. As a Patient Care Assistant, you will play a vital role in providing direct patient care and support to our patients and their families.
Key Responsibilities- Assist registered nurses with patient care tasks, including taking vital signs, recording intake and output, and providing basic care such as bathing and dressing patients.
- Encourage patients to turn, cough, and take deep breaths, and to use incentive spirometry as specified by the 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, including distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers.
- Provide morning or evening care, which may include bed bath, 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 use of bedpan, urinal or commode; preoperative supportive care; and application/removal of abdominal binders or anti-embolism stockings and sequential compression devices.
- Collect urine, stool, and sputum specimens as ordered.
- Perform tasks such as ROM, assist with ambulatory devices as specified by the patients' Plan of Care.
- Perform phlebotomy (requires additional training) and 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 environments.
- 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 records as appropriate.
- High school diploma or equivalent required.
- No prior experience required, but preference may be given to individuals with prior healthcare experience.
- CPR certification required.
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