Position Summary
Responsible to coordinate activities at the Nurses Station, including receptionist, general clerical and information management duties with computer skills. Provide direct patient care, both medical and non-medical. Cares are directed and supervised by the RN or LPN. Assures the maintenance of a safe and clean environment.
Excellence in Practice
- Time management: completes assignments and assists others willingly; answers call lights; greets and directs patients, visitors and hospital personnel in a friendly and courteous manner, assists in room preparation, admissions and discharges.
- Assists patients with activities and meal time set up, ambulation, transfers, positioning, and dressing. Attends to physical and emotional needs.
- Computer skills: able to admit patients with knowledge about inpatient/outpatient status, obtain charts, able to use order entry for physician orders, specimen collections, equipment repairs and dietary needs.
- Performs duties independently with little or no supervision.
- Good technical skills: vital signs, specimen collection, weights, isolation, hot/cold packs; cooperates in unit cleaning, maintenance, restocking, diet kitchen, utility room, patient rooms and equipment; had good knowledge of phone system, pager system, alarms and proper response to each.
- Able to prioritize and multitask – separate emergency orders and request for regular work flow. Adapts to changes in workload while remaining calm and reassuring. Takes direction from medical professionals, follows stat orders.
- Treats patients with dignity and respect providing for privacy in all cares.
- Completes assignments, good time managements. Assists others willingly. Answers call lights promptly. Makes hourly rounds.
- Assists patients with activities of daily living: meal time set up and feeding, toileting, ambulation, transfers, positioning, dressing, AM & PM cares – bathing, oral hygiene, shave, skin and nail care. Attends to physical, spiritual and emotional needs.
- Accurately documents care provided: Activity, Meals, I & O, Vital Signs, Weights, Swing Bed activities and ADL assessments.
- Assist with admissions and discharges – room preparation.
- Cooperates with unit cleaning, maintenance and restocking: Diet kitchen, utility room, report room, patient rooms, supply room, med carts, IV trays, equipment, etc.
- Good technical skills: Vital Signs, I & O, specimen collection, WBG, Weights, Isolation, hot and cold pads and SCD’s.
- Respectfully takes direction from medical professionals and reports changes in patient condition timely
- Assists in maintaining equipment and reports any faulty or unsafe equipment.
- Collects, compiles and organizes data for stats as designated.
- Assists with maintaining equipment and reports all faulty equipment.
Essential Job Requirements
• Education: High School Graduate, not required but preferred.
