Patient Sitter

HCA Healthcare, Inc.; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Wellbeing support

Paid time off

401(k) matching

Job summary

HCA Healthcare is seeking a Patient Safety Attendant (PSA) at Overland Park Regional Medical Center. The PSA provides continuous observation and helps ensure a safe environment for high-risk patients, working with the nursing team to minimize falls and self-harm risks while assisting with basic daily activities.

You will maintain direct patient visibility, accompany patients during transports, and apply fall prevention and infection control measures.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in a healthcare setting preferred.
• BLS certification required within 30 days of hire.
• De-Escalation training required within first 90 days of hire.
• Must be comfortable staying with patient(s).
• Great attention to detail to maintain line of sight with patients.
• Experience from transporter or sitter roles in nursing/home care is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a direct line of sight with the patient at all times.
• Accompany patients during transportation, testing, and procedures away from their room.
• Establish a safe environment using fall prevention and infection control practices.
• Perform regular room assessments after visits.

Skills

Attention to detail

Patient safety

Communication

De-escalation

Stays with patient

Job description

Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career as a Patient Sitter with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized.

Job Summary and Qualifications

The Patient Safety Attendant (PSA) participates in high quality, patient-centered care by providing continuous observation and monitoring for high-risk patients. In collaboration with the nursing team, the PSA ensures the patient environment is free of obstacles and minimizes risk of falls and accidental or intentional self-harm. The Sitter may also assist with basic activities of daily living. Our Patient Safety Attendants are passionate about ensuring an exceptional patient experience and committed to caring like family.

What Will You Do In this Role:

• You will maintain a direct line of sight with patient at all times, including while family and/or visitors are in the room.

• You will accompany patients and ensure safety during transportation, testing and procedures occurring away from the patient’s normal environment.

• You will establish a safe, risk-free patient environment by utilizing knowledge of fall prevention protocols, infection control measures and self-harm prevention.

• You will perform room assessment regularly and after any visitations.

What Qualifications You Will Need:

• 1+ years of experience in a healthcare setting preferred

• Basic Life Saving Support certification required within 30 days of hire

• De-Escalation Training required within first 90 days of hire

• Must be comfortable with staying with patient(s).

• Must have great attention to detail to maintain line of sight with patients.

• Experience from positions like transporters, patient sitters in nursing home settings, other hands-on care could work well.

Benefits

Overland Park Regional Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefitsfor medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support,including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from workprograms for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education supportthrough tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefitsfor fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated 3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it.
- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

Overland Park Regional Medical Center is a 340+ bed facility offering acute medical services to our patients. We are Johnson County’s only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Level II Trauma Center. We have an Accredited Stroke and Chest Pain Center. Our hospital is a premier area destination for Womens & Children’s healthcare services. We offer the region’s only Maternal Fetal Health Center to care for critically ill mothers and their babies. Our hospital has an antepartum unit, a labor and delivery unit, and a Level III NICU. We have four emergency rooms, including a dedicated Pediatric emergency room and two freestanding ERs located in Olathe and Shawnee. Each year our colleagues treat over 45,000 patients. Caring for patients is more than a job for us, its our mission and our calling. OPRMC is part of HCA Midwest Health, Kansas City’s leading healthcare provider in the region.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.