Unit Sec Tech

Northwell Health; Town of Riverhead (NY); On-site; USD 40,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Job description

Every other weekend and holidays

Job Description

This position is responsible for providing a combination of unit clerical duties and direct patient care duties as needed on the designated Patient Care Unit. The incumbent ensures that accurate and complete information is completed to facilitate coordination and communication between healthcare team. The incumbent performs clerical duties associated with supporting the Patient Care Unit and provides assigned direct patient care duties under the supervision of the registered nurse.

Job Responsibility

*1.Functions as a co-worker to the nurse and a key member of the nursing care team:

• Organizes patient care assignment and sets priorities.
• Alerts RN co-worker to changes in patient status i.e., alteration in comfort, skin integrity, alterations in breathing pattern, etc.
• Documents patient care and patient status changes hospital computer system and on the appropriate chart forms.
• Communicates routine information to RN periodically during shift i.e., intake and output.

*2.Assists RN in providing for ADL needs of patients:

• 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.

*3.Maintains patient care units including nursing station in a neat and orderly condition:

• 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 are.
• Prepares room for new admissions, transfers and post-operative patients.

*4.Assists Registered Nurse by performing selected procedures and simple treatments:

• 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.