The Role
Provide clerical and patient care support, manage equipment, respond to communication devices, and assist with patient needs while maintaining confidentiality and compliance.
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Where compassion meets innovation and technology and our employees are family.
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** The standard shift is Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM; however, scheduling changes may occur based on staffing requirements. **
General Purpose of Job:To provide general clerical, equipment and patient care support to patient care units.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintains utmost level of confidentiality at all times.
- Adheres to hospital policies and procedures.
- Demonstrates personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines.
- Clerical duties: respond to communication devices such as phone//call bells, able to complete basic entries into the electronic medical record; records patient data in EMR, transcribes written orders
- Room/Patient care/Equipment management: stocks supplies, checks for expiration dates, orders supplies, cleans equipment, cleans toys
- Infectious material exposure: transports blood borne pathogen or other patient specimens, picks up blood from blood bank and delivers to the unit; sprays surgical instruments with enzymatic cleanser and prepares/transports them for processing, packages or moves infectious waste containers for disposal; may provide in rooms support for patients on airborne precautions
- Patient care support: measures, records and empties urine collection devices, empties bedpans/commodes, reinforces established education material or room orientation with patients/families; transports patients off unit for tests/procedures, discontinues Peripheral IV’s, obtains Point of Care specimens and urine, wound, stool throat and nasal specimens
- Patients at risk for self-harm or harm to others: performs room safety check, performs non-clinical patient assistant in addition can perform 1:1 supervision for at risk patients including patients in restraints (not hard restraints) basic data collection and documentation.
Education and/or Experience:
Graduate from a Nurse Aide School
CERTIFICATES, LICENSURE, REGISTRATION:
- Nurse Aide Certification
- American Heart Association – Basic Life Support (BLS) obtained within prior to hire and maintained continuously thereafter. May onboard with AHA or Red Cross CPR and then transition to AHA upon first renewal.
- Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NCI) or other DHS deemed relevant course equivalent within 6 months of hire and maintained continuously thereafter
Top Skills
Electronic Medical Record (Emr)
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The Company
What We Do
We provide the absolute best pediatric care in South Texas, where care and community come together. Together, we heal
