Care Partner

7 hours ago


St Louis MO USA, United States SSM Health Full time
Job Title: Care Partner

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Job Summary:

As a Care Partner, you will work under the direction of a Registered Nurse to provide skilled levels of bedside patient care. Your responsibilities will include meeting the basic needs of patients, performing clerical duties, and ensuring a safe and comfortable environment.

Key Responsibilities:
  1. General Patient Care:
  • Carry out patient plans of care, delivering care requiring broad knowledge of aseptic technique, medical terminology, and equipment.
  • Assist nurses and physicians with procedures, maintain knowledge of and operate equipment used in patient care safely.
  • Retrieve patient care items, retrieve, recover, or follow up on patient care needs.
  • Complete unit clerical duties, including coordination of designated unit activities, transcription of orders, medical record maintenance, and serving as a unit receptionist.
  • Prepare rooms prior to admissions and following discharges, complete patient belongings lists on admission and transfer.
  • Direct prompt and courteous attention to the needs of patients, families, and visitors, round with purpose, engage in service recovery activities, and refer unusual problems to the Nurse Manager/Designate.
Safety and Comfort:
  • Correctly place restraints, observe for constriction of circulation, changes to skin integrity, adequate breathing, know when and how to change position, provide range of motion (ROM) and skin care, toileting, and opportunities for socialization.
  • Operate Cardiac Monitor, including on/off switch, alarms/stand-by, obtaining strip, and lead placement.
Vital Signs/Measurement:
  • Complete Point of Care Testing as approved by hospital and competency, obtain vital signs including temperature, measure abdominal girth, weigh patients, measure intake and output.
Mobility and Exercise:
  • Apply Pneumatic Air Stockings/Ted Hose, ambulate, turn, and position patients.
Respiratory Care:
  • Assist with incentive spirometry and cough/deep breath, set up oxygen therapy such as nasal cannula or mask as directed by Registered Nurse, monitor pulse oximetry, complete tracheostomy care, and perform suctioning.
Wound Care:
  • Place patient on specialty bed, perform dressing changes (sterile and clean), care for pin care site after assessment has been completed by the Registered Nurse, and assist in monitoring traction weights are hanging freely and in good alignment.
Bowel and Bladder Elimination:
  • Administer enemas, perform straight catheterization, provide catheter care.
Hygiene:
  • Provide hygiene and grooming daily, mouth care (including dentures) at least twice/day, fresh water at 0800, 1600, 2400, and as needed, perineal care, toileting.
Specimen Collection:
  • Obtain midstream (clean-voided) urine specimen, timed urine specimen, sterile urine specimen from an indwelling catheter, urine specific gravity (5 South and 5 ICU only), urine pH, expectorated sputum specimens, blood specimens by venipuncture, stool specimens.
Clerical:
  • Answer phone within 3 rings, identifying self, title, and nursing unit, do not keep person on hold for extended periods, provide directions to physicians, hospital personnel, and visitors to patient's room, notify the physician and nursing staff of new patient's arrival to unit, assist in the receiving of articles brought to the nursing unit, answer pneumatic tube promptly, and return carriers to the appropriate area.
Requirements:
  • Minimum Education: High School graduate or GED equivalent and at least 18 years of age.
  • Minimum Experience: None.
  • Required Course: Completion of learning program with 80% passing score on written and skills performance examination.
Work Environment:
  • Regular exposure to the risk of blood-borne diseases.
  • Contact with patients under wide variety of circumstances.
  • Exposure to unpleasant elements (accidents, injuries, illness).
  • Subject to trying and unpredictable situations.
  • May perform emergency care.
  • Subject to irregular hours.
  • Pressure due to multiple competing demands.
Physical Requirements:
  • Prolonged, extensive, or considerable standing/walking.
  • Lifts, positions, pushes, and/or transfers patients.
  • Lifts supplies/equipment.
  • Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, lifting, pushing, pulling 100+ pounds.

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