Patient Care Assistant Full Time Days

How You'll Make An Impact

• Care of medically ill acute or sub-acute patients.
• Performs direct patient care.
• Observes and reports changes in the behavior and physical status of patients.
• Provides a clean and safe environment.
• Assists with activities of daily living (bathing, dressing, grooming, shaving, oral and denture care, skin and nail care, bed making, and maintaining a clean environment).
• Promotes and maintains mobility (ambulating, transferring, transporting, turning, positioning, lifting, and performing range of motion exercises).
• Assists with nutrition and hydration (feeding and assisting patients with eating and drinking).
• Assists with toileting and elimination (assisting with the use of bedpan/urinal/bedside commode, providing catheter care, and care of the incontinent patient).
• Performs data gathering and recognizes abnormal findings (measuring and recording vital signs, weight, oral intake, output including urine, emesis, and stool).

What You’ll Need To Apply

• Required Education: None
• Required Experience: None
• Note: Minimum experience for float pool assignments is six (6) months.
• Preferred Experience: One (1) year of job-related experience preferred.
• Required Certification/License/Registry: Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Note: BLS certification is required prior to performing patient care. T allahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) may provide the opportunity for BLS certification training on-site as part of clinical orientation (as needed).

About the Role

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare (TMH) is a private, nonprofit community-based healthcare system that provides care to a 22-county region in North Florida and South Georgia. We are a career destination with over 6,000 colleagues who reflect the diversity of our community. TMH is the region's healthcare leader and top provider of advanced care with a 772-bed acute care hospital and the region's only: Level II Trauma Center, Primary Stroke Center, Level III Neonatal Intensive Care, Pediatric Intensive Care, the most advanced cancer, heart and vascular, orthopedic & surgery programs in the Panhandle. Our system also includes a psychiatric hospital, multiple specialty care centers, six residency programs and more than 50 affiliated physician practices.

Requirements

Note: Minimum experience for float pool assignments is six (6) months.

Qualifications

Note: Required Education: None

Note: Required Experience: None

Skills

Note: Preferred Experience: One (1) year of job-related experience preferred.

Benefits

Note: BLS certification is required prior to performing patient care. T allahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) may provide the opportunity for BLS certification training on-site as part of clinical orientation (as needed).

Pay

Note: Not specified.

Schedule

Note: Not specified.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare is an equal opportunity employer and drug-free workplace. All employment is contingent upon successful completion of a drug screen, background check, reference verification, health assessment, and credential/license verification.