Patient Care Assistant, Frazier Rehab Institute, 8th Floor. Peds / Adults, 7a-7p

Primary Location :

Frazier Rehab Institute - UMC

Address :

220 Abraham Flexner Way

Louisville, KY 40202

Shift :

Days 7A - 7P (United States of America)

Job Description Summary :

The Patient Care Assistant (PCA) provides clinical patient care support, and identified nursing procedures, in a caring, safe, and efficient manner, under the supervision and delegation of the Registered Nurse. In collaboration with patients and families (as defined by the patient) the PCA is responsible for the care of the patient. The PCA demonstrates proficiency in phlebotomy and other delegated nursing procedures, in addition to the other essential functions of the role while adhering to and being supportive of the department of Nursing mission and philosophy.

Job Description :

The essential functions of this position are to :

• Delivers successful service to our internal and external customers by adhering to critical success standards : demonstrating accountability and commitment to quality and safety standards; providing exceptional customer service; and exerting effort to ensure a positive work environment that demonstrates dedication to the hospital's mission, vision and values
• Performs delegated and ancillary basic nursing skills, including activities of daily living, monitoring of patient condition, body mechanics, providing nutritional support and other activities as appropriate to clinical service, in accordance with hospital standards, nursing standards of care, and policies and procedures.
• May perform skills, within scope of practice for unlicensed assistive personnel, and communicate performance of these skills to the patient's Nurse and other members of the healthcare team. These skills include, but are not limited to :
• The collection of specimens,
• Effective use of specialized equipment such as bladder scanners,
• Electronic vital signs machines,
• Restraint monitoring and patient elimination procedures.
• Collection, documentation, and reporting of data (e.g., vital signs, oxygen saturation using pulse oximeter equipment, height, weight, intake and output, and blood glucose testing when sample is obtained from a capillary site).
• Performs delegated tasks of a routine nature, including but not limited to :
• simple non-sterile dressing changes,
• external care to urinary catheters,
• enema administration (when not contraindicated by patient's skin integrity and condition),
• bowel and bladder program care including intermittent urinary catheterization and digital rectal stimulation,
• colostomy appliance changes on mature stoma sites with sustained skin integrity.
• administration of feedings via a gastrostomy tube when the tube is in a mature stoma site with sustained skin integrity, and only when it is delegated by and performed under the supervision of a nurse.
• Performs functional assignments per unit standards of care, including such activities as patient admission and discharge procedures, unit environmental organizational tasks, and others as appropriate to service.
• Performs and documents point-of-care testing, patient mobility and exercise, comfort, rest, sleep and care needs, patient hygiene, grooming, dressing, skincare, dietary, toileting and elimination needs.
• Transport patients and specimens as needed

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