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Patient Care Assistant PRN - Providence Float Pool - Providence Hospital
Overview:
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
USA Health is Transforming Medicine along the Gulf Coast to care for the unique needs of our community. USA Health is changing how medical care, education, and research impact the health of people who live in Mobile and the surrounding area. Our team of doctors, advanced care providers, nurses, therapists, and researchers provides the region's most advanced medicine at multiple facilities, campuses, clinics, and classrooms. We offer patients convenient access to innovative treatments and advancements that improve the health and overall well-being of our community.
Responsibilities:
- Functions as a member of a coordinated patient care team and receives direction, assignment, and supervision from a Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to support the delivery of patient care services throughout the organization.
- Accepts assignments across multiple patient care units based on staffing and patient care needs
- Provides one-to-one patient safety observation for patients requiring continuous monitoring due to behavioral health concerns, cognitive impairment, confusion, elopement risk, suicide precautions, or other safety concerns
- Maintains continuous visual observation of assigned patients in accordance with hospital policy and physician orders
- Recognizes and immediately reports changes in patient behavior, condition, or safety risks to the RN/LPN
- Uses therapeutic communication and de-escalation techniques as appropriate for behavioral observation patients
- Identifies and reports environmental safety hazards and assists in maintaining a safe patient environment
- Documents observation activities and patient behaviors according to organizational policy
- Transitions between Patient Care Assistant duties and patient safety observation duties during a shift based on patient needs and staffing requirements
- Demonstrates flexibility in adapting to different units, patient populations, workflows, and care environments
- Provides support during periods of increased census, staffing shortages, admissions, transfers, discharges, and other operational needs
- Maintains competency to work in multiple patient care areas as assigned
- Communicates effectively with interdisciplinary team members across multiple departments
- Employee may be assigned to any patient care area for which competency has been demonstrated and may perform Patient Care Assistant duties, Patient Sitter duties, or a combination of both during a scheduled shift based on patient care needs and staffing requirements
- Completes all mandatory department, educational and hospital requirements
- Adheres to current Infection Control and Safety Standards
- Regular and prompt attendance
- Ability to work schedule as defined and overtime as required
- Related duties as assigned
Employees must be in a regular position, working 20 hours or more per week (.50 FTE or greater) to qualify for benefits.
Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or equivalent. Experience may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for the required education. Required
- Comparable combination of education and experience may substitute for the above requirements.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Knowledge of basic patient care principles and activities of daily living. Knowledge of basic patient care principles and activities of daily living.
- Knowledge of infection prevention, safety practices, and standard precautions. Knowledge of infection prevention, safety practices, and standard precautions.
- Knowledge of vital signs, intake and output monitoring, blood glucose monitoring, and patient observation techniques. Knowledge of vital signs, intake and output monitoring, blood glucose monitoring, and patient observation techniques.
- Knowledge of patient rights, confidentiality requirements, and HIPAA regulations. Knowledge of patient rights, confidentiality requirements, and HIPAA regulations.
- Knowledge of behavioral observation procedures, suicide precautions, elopement precautions, and patient safety practices. Knowledge of behavioral observation procedures, suicide precautions, elopement precautions, and patient safety practices.
- Knowledge of proper body mechanics and safe patient handling techniques. Knowledge of proper body mechanics and safe patient handling techniques.
- Knowledge of electronic medical record documentation requirements. Knowledge of electronic medical record documentation requirements.
- Skill in obtaining and recording vital signs, weights, intake and output, and blood glucose measurements. Skill in obtaining and recording vital signs, weights, intake and output, and blood glucose measurements.
- Skill in observing, recognizing, and reporting changes in patient condition or behavior. Skill in observing, recognizing, and reporting changes in patient condition or behavior.
- Skill in effective verbal and written communication with patients, families, and healthcare team members. Skill in effective verbal and written communication with patients, families, and healthcare team members.
- Skill in therapeutic communication and de-escalation techniques. Skill in therapeutic communication and de-escalation techniques.
- Skill in accurately documenting patient information in electronic and paper medical records. Skill in accurately documenting patient information in electronic and paper medical records.
- Skill in prioritizing multiple tasks in a fast-paced healthcare environment. Skill in prioritizing multiple tasks in a fast-paced healthcare environment.
- Skill in operating patient care equipment and unit-specific equipment as assigned. Skill in operating patient care equipment and unit-specific equipment as assigned.
- Ability to provide compassionate and patient-centered care. Ability to provide compassionate and patient-centered care.
- Ability to maintain continuous observation of patients for extended periods while remaining attentive and alert. Ability to maintain continuous observation of patients for extended periods while remaining attentive and alert.
- Ability to recognize and promptly report patient safety concerns, behavioral changes, and changes in patient condition. Ability to recognize and promptly report patient safety concerns, behavioral changes, and changes in patient condition.
- Ability to adapt quickly to varying patient populations, clinical environments, and unit workflows. Ability to adapt quickly to varying patient populations, clinical environments, and unit workflows.
- Ability to work effectively as a member of a coordinated healthcare team under the direction of a Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN). Ability to work effectively as a member of a coordinated healthcare team under the direction of a Registered Nurse (RN) or Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN).
- Ability to follow verbal and written instructions accurately. Ability to follow verbal and written instructions accurately.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment in patient care situations. Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment in patient care situations.
- Ability to manage stressful situations and remain calm during emergencies or behavioral events. Ability to manage stressful situations and remain calm during emergencies or behavioral events.
- Ability to safely assist with lifting, transferring, repositioning, and ambulating patients. Ability to safely assist with lifting, transferring, repositioning, and ambulating patients.
- Ability to work flexible assignments across multiple departments based on patient care and staffing needs. Ability to work flexible assignments across multiple departments based on patient care and staffing needs.
- Ability to perform Patient Care Assistant duties, Patient Safety Attendant duties, or a combination of both during a scheduled shift. Ability to perform Patient Care Assistant duties, Patient Safety Attendant duties, or a combination of both during a scheduled shift.
The University of South Alabama is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or any other applicable legally protected basis. EO Employer – minorities/females/veterans/disabilities/sexual orientation/gender identity.
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