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Patient Care Associate - Intensive Care Unit - 20 Hours Facility: Mount Auburn Hospital Cambridge, MA 08/09/2024

Mount Auburn Hospital
Cambridge, MA
Part-time

Job Type : Regular

Time Type : Part time

Work Shift : Rotating (United States of America)

FLSA Status : Non-Exempt

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Patients will receive care that meets their individual needs in all patient settings.

Job Description :

Essential Duties & Responsibilities (including but not limited to) :

1. Assists with activities of daily living such as hygiene, nutrition, elimination, mobility, comfort, and safety.

2. Monitors and documents vital signs, patient weights, intake / output, and other data.

3. Completes patient treatments as directed, and assists healthcare professionals with more complex treatments

4. Performs phlebotomy and EKGs, applies Holter monitors, and performs glucometer. Collects and labels specimens.

5. Answers patient call lights and ensures resolution of patient issues.

6. Transports discharged patients.

7. Participates in patient care rounds.

8. Provides one-to-one observation of patients as needed.

9. Participates in conferences and educational programs as appropriate.

10. Maintain BCLS certification and attend the annual Safety Education Fair

11. Maintain unit competencies.

Minimum Qualifications :

1. High school graduate or equivalent.

2. Ability to read and write at level 8, as documented on "Invest," the hospital's Employee Learning Laboratory software.

3. Good oral communication skills to ensure the accurate transfer of information, and strong interpersonal skills to facilitate courteous interaction with patients, visitors, and other hospital staff members.

Physical Requirements & Environment :

1. Normal hospital environment.

2. Exposure to infectious diseases, chemicals, and other toxic agents.

3. Ability to walk and stand for up to 90% of work time, and to push and pull heavy work objects (including patients), and lift 50 lbs.

4. Fine motor control for limited periods to perform patient treatments.

5. Repetitive hand movements, and ability to type 40 words per minute.

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities.

Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment.

about this requirement.

More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives.

Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled

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