Patient Care Associate - Telemetry

Baptist Healthcare; Little Rock (AR); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking a Patient Care Associate to support the Telemetry team on days. The role focuses on basic patient care, monitoring, hygiene, and ensuring complete care for each patient and guest on the unit.

You'll work with nursing staff across the hospital, may float to other units when needed, and must have a high school diploma with additional college credits. Epic charting will be used to document tasks and patient status.

Qualifications

• Requires High School diploma or equivalent.
• Must complete 12 hours of college credit to promote to next level.
• May be required to float to another unit/department when necessary.

Responsibilities

• A Patient Care Associate serves as a technical assistant to nursing on the unit whose primary function is to assist with basic patient care, monitoring, hygiene, and to help ensure care is complete.
• The nursing assistant works as part of the nursing team on a unit and throughout the hospital to ensure that each and every patient and guest to the hospital has their needs met, whether that need is physical, spiritual or educational.
• Ability to read, write, understand and follow instructions. Basic addition and subtraction skills; verbal skills to relate to patients, visitors, staff and physicians; ability to utilize Epic to chart and monitor tasks to be completed.

Skills

Reading/writing

Patient communication

Epic charting

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

12 college credits for promotion

Tools

Epic

Job description

Patient Care Associate - Telemetry

| Telemetry | Job ID:

59601

Job Details

BHMC- North Little Rock

Nursing Support

Full Time

Department: Telemetry

Shift: Day

Working Hours: 0630-1900

A Patient Care Associate serves as a technical assistant to nursing on the unit whose primary function is to assist with basic patient care, monitoring, hygiene, and to help ensure care is complete. The nursing assistant works as part of the nursing team on a unit and throughout the hospital to ensure that each and every patient and guest to the hospital has their needs met, whether that need is physical, spiritual or educational.

• Requires High School diploma or equivalent
• Must complete 12 hours of college credit to promote to next level.
• May be required to float to another unit/department when necessary.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Needed: Ability to read, write, understand and follow instructions. Basic addition and subtraction skills. The verbal skills to effectively relate to patients, visitors, staff, and physicians. Ability to utilize Epic to chart and monitor tasks to be completed.

This job will be authorized72.00 hours bi-weekly.

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