PRN Patient Care Tech — Compassionate Patient Support

Sioux Center Health; Miller (SD); On-site; USD 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Avera Hand County Memorial Hospital is seeking a PRN patient care assistant to support routine patient care and allied services under nurse or physician direction. The role emphasizes safety, accuracy in documenting dietary info, and patient comfort.

Responsibilities include assisting with mobility, meals, call lights, transport, and clerical duties for admissions and discharges. CNA certification is preferred, with a minimum high school diploma or GED; age 16 not specified here.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED is required.
• Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) licensure or endorsement preferred.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Greets all persons, answers inquiries, directs and assists visitors, relays messages, assists with gifts, flowers, and mail for patients, and runs errands for department staff.
• Ambulates patients and assists them in and out of wheelchairs; measures intakes/outputs; may collect specimens and transport patients.
• Answers telephone, operates paging system, and attends station; directs traffic during emergencies.
• Prepares requisitions for diagnostic and therapeutic services and coordinates appointments with departments; makes outpatient appointments for discharges.
• Requisition of supplies and equipment; maintenance and repairs; prepares related forms.
• Requests services such as Chaplain, social services, and pastoral care as directed.
• Performs clerical duties related to admissions, discharges, charting, transfers, and other forms; maintains patient charts.
• Manages interdepartmental and patient mail.
• Maintains patient rooms; changes bed linens and performs routine cleaning tasks.

Education

High School diploma or GED

Certified Nurse Aide (CNA)

Job description

Avera Hand County Memorial Hospital is seeking a PRN patient care assistant to support routine patient care and allied services under nurse or physician direction. The role emphasizes safety, accuracy in documenting dietary info, and patient comfort.

Responsibilities include assisting with mobility, meals, call lights, transport, and clerical duties for admissions and discharges. CNA certification is preferred, with a minimum high school diploma or GED; age 16 not specified here.