Patient Care Coordinator

6 days ago

Sparks, Nevada, United States Covenant Health Full time

Job Summary:

Covenant Health is seeking a skilled Patient Care Assistant to join our team. As a Patient Care Assistant, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality patient care and support to our patients and their families.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide direct patient care and assistance to registered nurses, including performing tasks such as taking vital signs, assisting with ADLs, and providing technical support.
  • Strive to achieve high customer satisfaction by using Journey to Excellence tactics, including AIDET, bedside shift report, purposeful hourly rounding, and careboard completion.
  • Take and record 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 Plan of Care.
  • Ambulate and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs, and transport when necessary.
  • Attend to nutritional needs of patients, including distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers.
  • Provide morning or evening care, including 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, including reporting equipment that is out of order, appropriate handling of linen, and storing of supplies.
  • Provide general care, including positioning, lifting or turning patients, assisting in 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 patients' 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.
  • 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, not to exceed scope of practice.

Qualifications:

Minimum Education:

None specified; will accept any combination of formal education and/or prior work experience sufficient to demonstrate possession of the knowledge, skill, and ability needed to perform the essential tasks of the job, typically such as would be equivalent to a high school diploma or GED. Preference may be given to individuals possessing a HS diploma or GED.

Minimum Experience:

Medical terminology a plus. Must successfully complete Covenant's orientation and Nursing Assistant in-house training program before being permitted to work with patients.

Licensure Requirement:

CPR required.

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