Patient Care Assistant II - Emergency (FT, Day)

Yuma Regional Medical Center; Yuma (AZ); On-site; USD 29,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Yuma Regional Medical Center dba Onvida Health in Yuma, AZ is seeking a Patient Care Assistant II to support nursing within the LNA scope of practice. This role provides direct and indirect patient care and collaborates with the care team to ensure high-quality outcomes.

The position emphasizes compassion, proper handoffs, ADL support, safety and documentation, with duties that may include unit secretarial tasks and education responsibilities as part of a dynamic healthcare team.

Qualifications

• High School Equivalency Diploma.
• 0 Years of Experience.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) from American Heart Association (AHA).
• Licensed Nurse Assistant (LNA).

Responsibilities

• Adheres to workflows and patient care tasks outlined by training and orientation. Accepts delegation from nurses to provide care in alignment with scope of practice.
• Conducts effective handoff between care team members, including communication with the nurse regarding the patient’s care plan each shift. Contributes to the admission, transfer, and discharge processes.
• Attentive to patient and visitor needs, maintaining compassionate care that addresses both physical and emotional aspects of well‑being and communicates clearly and effectively through established systems concerning relevant information.
• Assists patients with activities of daily living (ADL's), including patient hygiene, pressure injury prevention, and safe mobility and reduces risk of harm to patients through safety interventions.
• Serves to transport patient specimens safely and effectively, documents accurately and timely in the Medical Record and appropriately reports to the nursing staff any concerns identified.
• Contributes to seamless department operations by demonstrating sufficient work habits such as dependability, workplace cleanliness and organization, supply management and vigilant patient care equipment maintenance and management.
• Maintains professional responsibilities related to education, training, and accountability to department communication methods.
• May be oriented to unit secretarial duties to include responding to incoming calls, supporting personnel through interdepartmental and interprofessional communications; uses organizational communication systems to notify of codes.
• Specific to inpatient locations: purposeful rounding in alignment with Policy, educates patient to call light use, and is committed to call light responsiveness.
• Specific to Women’s and Children’s: responsibilities related to registration, certification, patient admission, insurance authorization process, electronic birth records, paternity testing, and recording fetal death.
• Other duties as assigned by department leadership.

Education

High School Equivalency Diploma

0 Years of Experience

Basic Life Support (BLS) from American Heart Association (AHA)

Licensed Nurse Assistant (LNA)

Job description

Yuma Regional Medical Center dba Onvida Health in Yuma, AZ is seeking a Patient Care Assistant II to support nursing within the LNA scope of practice. This role provides direct and indirect patient care and collaborates with the care team to ensure high-quality outcomes.

The position emphasizes compassion, proper handoffs, ADL support, safety and documentation, with duties that may include unit secretarial tasks and education responsibilities as part of a dynamic healthcare team.