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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 Patient Care Specialist, 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 vital signs, temperature, height/length, weight, oxygen saturation, and pain scores; report abnormal values to the Registered Nurse.
- 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 supplies.
- Collect blood specimens from arterial, CVP, and PIC lines.
- Collect specimens, including urine, stool, sputum, and swabs, and perform urine determination, including sugar, acetone, specific gravity, protein, and pH.
- Intravenous Lines
- Discontinue peripheral IVs and remove peripheral IV dressings.
- Prime peripheral (without additives) and central/pressure heparin set-ups (after bag spiked by RN); time and date bag/tubing per 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, perineal care.
- Provide toileting/bedpan/urinal; remove/empty foley catheters; weigh diapers.
- Tube Feedings
- Perform tube feedings of patients, at the direction of the Registered Nurse, and after the Registered Nurse 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.
- 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 Registered Nurse with complex dressing changes.
- Respiratory Care
- Assist with tracheostomy care on stable tracheotomies, including cleaning and redressing area; assist with tape and tie changes.
- Perform endotracheal/tracheostomy tube suctioning after assessment by Registered Nurse of patient stability.
- Provide ventilation to the intubated/trached patient with an Ambu bag.
- 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.
- 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.
Hours/Week: Up to 40 hours/week, Minimum of 24 hours in a 4-week nursing schedule.
Shifts: Day/Eve/Night Rotator, possible 4-hour shifts, 8-hour shifts, or 12-hour shifts.
