PATIENT CARE ASSISTANT

Overview

Patient Care Assistant, Medical Surgical Unit

Full Time, 72 Hours Per Pay Period, Day Shift

Parkwest Overview:

Parkwest Medical Center , Covenant Health’s flagship facility in West Knoxville, combines world-class cardiac expertise with the warmth of home in serving a vibrant East Tennessee community. Since 1973, Parkwest has grown into the region’s largest hospital in the area, offering advanced services like an all-digital catheterization lab, comprehensive breast health, emergency, and critical care. It’s consistently ranked among Tennessee's top 10 hospitals by U.S. News & World Report and earns national recognition as a Top 100 Heart Hospital, as well as an “A” safety grade from Leapfrog. As part of Covenant Health, the region’s largest employer, Parkwest Medical Center, marries cutting-edge technology with compassionate, community-centered care, earning accolades for cardiology, stroke, surgical excellence, and patient safety.

To learn more about Parkwest Medical Center and our units, visit Covenant Health Parkwest Medical Center Opportunities .

Position Summary:

Functions as a direct patient caregiver performing tasks to assist registered nurses. Performs hands-on care, assistance with ADL’s and specified technical tasks for a group of patients under the supervision of the Team Leader. May also function as a sitter for patients in need of full-time supervision in the hospital.

Responsibilities

• Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements.

• Encourage patients to turn, cough, and take deep breaths and to use incentive spirometry as specified by Plan of Care.

• Ambulate, and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs and transport when necessary.

• Attends to nutritional needs of patient which may include distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers,

• Provides morning or evening care, which may include bed bath, oral hygiene, combing hair, back care, dressing patient, changing bed linen, cleaning over-bed table and bedside stand, straightening room, and other supportive care as needed.

• Empty drains, canisters, urine bags, bedpans and emesis basins and record intake and output.

• Assists in maintaining a safe environment, which may include reporting equipment that is out of order, appropriate handling of linen and storing of supplies.

• Provides general care such as positioning, lifting or turning patients; assisting in use of bedpan, urinal or commode; preoperative supportive care; and application/removal of abdominal binders or anti-embolism stockings and sequential compression devices.

• Empty & clean ostomy bag, per procedure.

• Collect urine, stool and sputum specimen as ordered.

• Perform tasks such as ROM, assist with ambulatory devices as specified by the patients' plan of care.

• Perform phlebotomy (requires additional training). To include correct labeling using two patient identifiers, maintenance of lab-draw supplies, rotating and restocking.

• Perform EKG (requires special training).

• Promptly answer patient call lights and respond to patient requests.

• Report significant changes in patients' condition to RN.

• Help to maintain clean and orderly patient and work environment.

• Employ all established infection control policies including standard precautions, transmission-based isolation precautions, OSHA standards, safety measures and proper body mechanics in performance of job.

• Document/maintain patient record as appropriate.

• Gathers equipment for O2 set up. Checks O2 for connection and proper placement.

• Checks for proper functioning of equipment at patient bedside

• Ambulate patients with oxygen.

• Set up suction equipment and check for proper function.

• Demonstrates knowledge and competency in providing for age-specific needs of the population served.

• Demonstrates ability to perform skills on the Nursing Assistant checklist.

• Follows policies, procedures, and safety standards. Completes required education assignments annually. Works toward achieving goals and objectives, and participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested.

• Must be trained and willing to function in a Sitter capacity for patients who need full-time supervision in the hospital.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Education:

None specified; will accept any combination of formal education and/or prior work experience sufficient to demonstrate possession of the knowledge, skill and ability needed to perform the essential tasks of the job, typically such as would be equivalent to a high school diploma or GED. Preference may be given to individuals possessing a HS diploma or GED.

Minimum Experience:

None.

Licensure Requirement:

CPR required

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Job Title PATIENT CARE ASSISTANT

ID 4482207

Facility Parkwest Medical Center

Department Name MEDIC SURGICAL UNIT