Patient Care Tech (PCT) | Med Surg

Avera Health; Miller (SD); Sur place; USD 25 000 - 32 000; Temps partiel

Résumé du poste

Avera Hand County Memorial Hospital is seeking a PRN Certified Nurse Aide to provide routine patient care under nurse or physician direction. Responsibilities include ambulating, bathing, feeding patients, handling call lights, and maintaining documentation and supplies.

Ideal candidates hold a CNA certification and a high school diploma or GED. The role involves assisting with admissions, discharges, appointments, and coordinating with various departments to ensure patient comfort and safety.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED.
• Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) certification preferred.

Responsabilités

• Provides safe and direct patient care: ambulating, bathing, positioning, feeding and attending to care needs.
• Greets patients and visitors, answers inquiries, and assists with messages and errands for department staff.
• Ambulates patients, measures intakes/outputs, collects specimens, and transports patients as needed.
• Answers telephone and paging system, assists with emergencies and directs traffic as required.
• Prepares requisitions for diagnostic and therapeutic services and coordinates outpatient appointments.
• Requests services such as Chaplain, social services, and pastoral care as directed.
• Performs clerical duties related to admissions, discharges, charts, transfers, and related forms.
• Manages interdepartmental and patient mail; maintains patient room cleanliness and supplies.

Formation

High School diploma or GED

CNA - Licensing Board

Description du poste

Location:

Avera Hand County Memorial Hospital

Worker Type:

PRN

Work Shift:

As Needed (United States of America)

Pay Range:

The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience.

$18.00 - $23.50

Position Highlights:

You Belong at Avera

Be part of a multidisciplinary team built with compassion and the goal of Moving Health Forward for you and our patients. Work where you matter.

A Brief Overview:

Responsible for providing routine patient care and support services in accordance with established policies and procedures, and as may be directed by the nurse or physician, to assure that the highest degree of quality patient care is maintained at all times.

What you will do:

• Provides safe and direct patient care: ambulating, bathing, positioning, entering diet information into the computer system, passing meal trays, feeding and attending to other care needs. Responds promptly to patient call lights and special needs, ensures that patient valuables and personal items are properly handled and accounted for.
• Greets all persons coming to the area assigned, answer inquiries, may direct and assist them, take and relay messages, assist with gifts, flowers, and mail for patients, run errands for department staff.
• Ambulates patients and assist them in and out of wheelchairs, measures intakes and outputs, may collect specimens and transport patients as needed.
• Answers telephone, operates paging system, and attends station and direct traffic during emergencies.
• Prepares requisitions for diagnostic and therapeutic services patients as directed and coordinate appointments with respective departments. Makes outpatient appointments for discharging patients.
• Requisition of supplies and equipment, maintenance and repairs services and prepares related forms.
• Requests services such as the following as directed: Chaplain, social services, and pastoral care.
• Performs clerical duties related to procedures such as admission, discharge, preparing appropriate charts and forms, transfer, and death.
• Manages interdepartmental and patient mail.
• Maintains patient rooms in an orderly condition, changes bed linens and provides routine cleaning tasks.

Essential Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds. These requirements and those listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the essential job functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions, as long as the accommodations do not cause undue hardship to the employer.

Preferred Education, License/Certification, or Work Experience:

• High School or GED Equivalent High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
• Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) - Licensing Board

Minimum Age Requirements:

16

Expectations and Standards:

• Commitment to the daily application of Avera’s mission, vision, core values, and social principles to serve patients, their families, and our community.
• Promote Avera’s values of compassion, hospitality, and stewardship.
• Uphold Avera’s standards of Communication, Attitude, Responsiveness, and Engagement (CARE) with enthusiasm and sincerity.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Work effectively in a team environment, coordinating work flow with other team members and ensuring a productive and efficient environment.
• Comply with safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards associated with, but not limited to, CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA if applicable.

Avera is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, Veteran Status, or other categories protected by law.