Evening Patient Care Support Specialist

NYU Langone; New York (NY); On-site; USD 53,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

NYU Langone Health is seeking a Patient Support Associate for the Central Nursing Service on the Evening Shift (37.5 hours). You will assist in maintaining the unit environment, set up equipment, manage supplies, and support patient care activities under supervision of the Nurse Manager.

Responsibilities include linen handling, patient transport, inventory management, pneumatic tube and pharmacy coordination, and enforcing infection prevention standards. Health system benefits available.

Qualifications

• High school education or equivalent.
• Proficient in English (verbal and written).
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Removes linen from patient care areas and assists in changing linen on unoccupied patient beds.
• Distributes water pitchers, cups, and straws as directed by the RN.
• Assists in the management of patient belongings by conducting an inventory, securing and transporting patient belongings.
• Performs patient transport of discharged patients on occasion to meet our target of discharge before noon.
• Prepares patients through notification and place said patient on mode of transportation prior to patient transport arrival (Future scope)
• Assures adequate inventory of patient care supplies
• Removes waste as needed within patient rooms and only when overflowing and BSD personnel are not readily available. Assists with food service to insure patient tray return from patient room.
• Redistributes supplies within the unit and maintains pars across clean supply room (including secured intravenous solutions and medication preparation supplies), nurse servers, patient rooms, unit-specific carts (e.g. dressing carts) and other point-of-use areas.
• Retrieves supplies (e.g. emergency supply requests, supplemental patient supply deliveries), from Pneumatic Tube, Central Distribution and replenishes to appropriate locations or assigned nurse. Retrieves supplies from the service corridor and replenishes appropriate locations.
• Redistribute medications that they pick up from the pneumatic tube system.
• Picks up and drops off medications from the inpatient pharmacy.
• Notifies SCM / Logistics Manager of non-par stocked specialty order needs.
• Performs regular regulatory compliance rounds (e.g. Supply expiration checks. Ensures supply locations are clean, orderly and free of loose trash and supply bins are free of dust or dirt and are not damaged).
• Facilitates exchange of emergency code carts and intubation boxes to/from Pharmacy, Central Sterile Processing, Central Distribution.
• Transport of clinical equipment to and from various departments (e.g. Clinical Engineering, Central Sterile Processing)
• Demonstrates understanding of infection prevention standards.
• Cleans spills and unit-based equipment and stores as instructed
• Assembles, locates and maintains unit specific equipment (e.g. trapeze, CPMs, Hip Chairs)

Skills

English proficiency

Communication

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Job description

NYU Langone Health is seeking a Patient Support Associate for the Central Nursing Service on the Evening Shift (37.5 hours). You will assist in maintaining the unit environment, set up equipment, manage supplies, and support patient care activities under supervision of the Nurse Manager.

Responsibilities include linen handling, patient transport, inventory management, pneumatic tube and pharmacy coordination, and enforcing infection prevention standards. Health system benefits available.