Patient Care Assistant II | Tower 4 | Nights

Summary

The Patient Care Assistant II is a member of the healthcare team who provides direct and indirect patient care duties, supporting nursing within the Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) scope of practice.

Responsibilities

• Adheres to workflows and patient care tasks outlined by training and orientation.
• Accepts delegation from nurses to provide care in alignment with scope of practice.
• Conducts effective handoff between care team members, including communication with the nurse regarding the patient's care plan each shift.
• Contributes to the admission, transfer, and discharge processes.
• Attentive to patient and visitor needs, maintaining compassionate care that addresses both physical and emotional aspects of well-being and communicates clearly and effectively through established systems concerning relevant information (verbally, non-verbally, and in writing).
• Assists patients with activities of daily living (ADL's), including patient hygiene, pressure injury prevention, and safe mobility and reduces risk of harm to patients through safety interventions.
• Serves to transport patient specimens safely and effectively, documents accurately and timely in the Medical Record and appropriately reports to the nursing staff any concerns identified.
• Contributes to seamless department operations by demonstrating sufficient work habits such as dependability, workplace cleanliness and organization, supply management and vigilant patient care equipment maintenance and management.
• Maintains professional responsibilities related to education, training, and accountability to department communication methods.
• May be oriented to unit secretarial duties to include responding to incoming calls, supporting personnel through interdepartmental and interprofessional communications; uses organizational communication systems to notify of codes (e.g. Code White, Code Neuro).
• Specific to inpatient locations: purposeful rounding in alignment with Policy, educates patient to call light use, and is committed to call light responsiveness.
• Specific to Women's and Children's: responsibilities related to registration, certification, patient admission, insurance authorization process, electronic birth records, paternity testing, and recording fetal death.
• Other duties as assigned by department leadership.

Qualifications

• High School Equivalency Diploma
• Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) from American Heart Association (AHA)
• 0 years of experience

Pay

Min = $20.95 Mid = $26.19 Max = $31.43

Schedule

Nights, 72.00 hours every two weeks

Location

Yuma Medical Center