Patient Care Unit Clerk & Tech

Northwell Health; Town of Riverhead (NY); Presencial; USD 40.000 - 64.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Northwell Health in New York seeks a patient care assistant to provide unit clerical support and direct patient care on the designated unit. You will help coordinate care and communicate with the health team under the supervision of a registered nurse.

The role includes assisting with ADLs, maintaining a neat, orderly unit, documenting patient status, and supporting the RN during shifts that include every other weekend and holidays.

Responsabilidades

• Organizes patient care assignment and sets priorities.
• Alerts RN to changes in patient status.
• Documents patient care and status changes in hospital system.
• Communicates routine information to RN during shift.
• Prepares patients for meals, and feeds or assists with meals.
• Provides between-meal nourishment and fresh water to patients.
• Bathes or assists patient to bathe, provides oral hygiene.
• Toilets patients as necessary.
• Maintains patient’s mobility with range of motion exercises and ambulation.
• Grooms patient, including shaving, as needed.
• Participates with the RN in the development of a plan of care for assigned patient.
• Utilizes a plan of care in carrying out patient assignments.
• Changes and makes beds.
• Cleans and straightens bedside table and over-bed tables, as needed.
• Strips patient units upon discharge of patient, in preparation for cleaning by Housekeeping Department.
• Removes equipment from room.
• Cleans and place it in appropriate area.
• Prepares room for new admissions, transfers and post-operative patients.
• Takes and records temperature, pulse, respiration rate and B.P. on admission and as assigned.
• Measures and records fluid intake and output; totals at shift end.
• Perform, mount and process EKG’s.
• Draw and process blood, as appropriate, within State and County guidelines.
• Obtains specimens, such as urine, stool and sputum.
• Administers enemas, as directed.

Descripción del empleo

Northwell Health in New York seeks a patient care assistant to provide unit clerical support and direct patient care on the designated unit. You will help coordinate care and communicate with the health team under the supervision of a registered nurse.

The role includes assisting with ADLs, maintaining a neat, orderly unit, documenting patient status, and supporting the RN during shifts that include every other weekend and holidays.