PATIENT CARE ASSISTANT or CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT - INTERMEDIATE CARE
Company: Bebee Healthcare
Location: Lewes
Posted on: January 27, 2023
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Job Description:
JOIN EACH WEDNESDAY FOR OUR VIRTUAL C.N.A. CHATS FROM
10AM-11AM
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Sign On Bonuses for all Full Time and Part Time
Summary:
Under the supervision and direction of a Registered Nurse, the
patient care assistant performs various clerical duties and
performs duties in the care and treatment of patients in accordance
with established methods and procedures.
Other information:
High School graduate or equivalent.
Computer literacy required.
Completion of approved Patient Care Assistant course that is
equivalent to Beebes current Patient Care Assistant program
Responsibilities:
Patient hygiene: Consistently and independently provides direct
patient care including bathing, mouth care, skin care, and ensures
clean linen. Attentive to all of the patient's personal needs
Patient safety: Maintains a safe, clean environment for patients.
Reports maintenance needs. Follows standard precautions and
isolation protocols. Follows fall prevention policy. Follows
standards for prevention of skin breakdown. Adheres to all
established cleaning guidelines. Submits and tracks maintenance
work orders for physical plant issues on the nursing unit. Promptly
answers pneumatic tube system and utilizes appropriate
follow-up.
Documentation: Accurately and promptly documents patient data
including patient care, treatments, vital signs, and intake and
output. Maintains paper charts in compliance with medical records
guidelines. Ensures integrity of record, including patient
identification on all chart forms. Ensures complete chart is sent
with patient at time of transfer to another department, transfer to
another facility or at discharge, to include both paper chart and
electronic medical record documents. Ensures nursing unit is
constantly prepared for an EMR downtime event, including
maintenance of identified downtime devices and equipment, and
keeping an adequate supply of all necessary materials to support
the downtime process.
Collection of specimens: Collects specimens following policy. Aware
of specimens needed and is active in obtaining.
Unit organization: Prepares patient rooms and beds for receiving
patient admissions, returning surgical patients, transfers, or
emergencies. Maintains safe, clean and organized patient/work area
and . Maintains inventory of supplies: , forms and materials for
unit and keeps inventory current. Assures prompt, appropriate
storage of all supplies. Requests equipment and supplies needed to
carry out physicians orders and ensures delivery. Responsible for
assisting unit manager with identifying broken/problematic EMR
devices (WOWs, tablets, wall PCs, desktop PCs), label printers,
fax/printers and other equipment. Independently reports equipment
issues to appropriate departments using established procedures, and
tracks resolution of reported problems, escalating barriers to unit
manager as needed.
Care and treatment: Assists with positioning, turning, lifting, and
ambulating patients. Applies special equipment and completes
treatments as directed. Accuchecks completed as directed.
Nutritional care: Distributes food trays / sets up trays promptly.
Assists or feeds patients as necessary. Removes trays in a timely
manner and documents accurate intake. Distributes drinking water
and other nourishment to patients throughout the shift.
Patient rounds: Completes purposeful hourly rounds to assigned
patients and anticipates patients needs. Responds promptly to call
lights, patient requests, and initiates interventions.
Communication: Proficient in receiving, greeting, and directing
patients, visitors, and hospital personnel, responding to routine
inquiries and responding to questions. Quickly determines the need
and responds accordingly. Promptly reports any changes observed in
the condition or behavior of the patient to the nurse. Gives
accurate Bedside Report as handoff to oncoming shift. Aware of
changes in patient care plan and communicates this when handing
off. Promptly monitors physician/provider orders in the electronic
medical record (EMR) when necessary. Schedules studies and
procedures appropriately, when needed. Communicates consults
promptly and appropriately according to established procedure.
Pages/contacts physician/provider when needed. Regularly reviews
tasks lists for new and stat patient orders and alerts RN caring
for patient of these orders on an ongoing basis.
Professional Accountability: Actively assists others and accepts
additional duties or assignments. Timely completion of assigned
education and annual competencies. Actively engaged in unit based
councils and performance improvement. Recognizes unit needs and
works to help facilitate solutions
Location: Hospital-Main Campus
Shift :
FTE: 0.900000
Work Status: Full Time
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