Patient Care Assistant (PCA), Cardiac/Neuro Med Surg, Full Time, Nights

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually we need to use headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections that have real content. We need to parse the job description. Key info: - Title: Full-Time Patient Care Assistant (PCA) for the 1st floor Cardiac/Neuro Med Surg unit for Day Shift at West Chester Hospital. - About the role: description: provides basic direct patient care as delegated... maintains orderly clean safe environment. - About West Chester Hospital: description of hospital. - Unit Details: mentions welcome to New Grads, opportunities for growth, cross train. - Benefits Details: list: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance; Employee Paid Short- and Long-Term Disability; 401K; Tuition Reimbursement Opportunities; Community Discounts. - Location: West Chester, OH, United States. - Qualifications: Education and Experience Requirements: Minimum Required: High School Diploma or GED required. LICENSE & CERTIFICATION: None required. Minimum Required: Minimum Required: 0-6 Months of experience required. Preferred: 1 - 2 Years equivalent experience. - Required Skills And Knowledge: Trained and maintains proficiency in AHA CPR and patient care skills. Completes unit-specific hospital safety education. One of the following criteria is required for this role: State Tested Nursing Aide Training; Acute Medical Surgical Training or Hospital Specific Training. May be a student from an accredited RN program that has successfully completed a medical surgical rotation or another acute care rotation. If candidates do not have either of the initial two requirements, the candidate must successfully complete the UC Health competency training for PCA’s and additional orientation before being permitted to care for patients. - Then a paragraph about joining team. - About UC Health: description. - Responsibilities: a big list broken into subheadings: PATIENT POPULATION - (CLINICAL ONLY): ... Patient Care Provides ... Communication ... Environment ... Teamwork ... Safety Measures ... We need to output sections: maybe About the role (could be combined with About West Chester Hospital? but we need headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We have Benefits content. Pay and Schedule not present, so we should NOT include those sections. We have Qualifications (education/experience). We have Skills (maybe Required Skills And Knowledge). We have Requirements (maybe Education and Experience Requirements). However the instructions: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits. We need to decide what goes where. - About the role: could include the initial description: "The Patient Care Assistant provides basic direct patient care as delegated by clinical professional personnel..." plus maybe location? But location maybe separate? Not required. - Responsibilities: the big list under Responsibilities heading. - Requirements: maybe Education and Experience Requirements (High School Diploma, experience). Could also include license/certification none required. - Qualifications: maybe the Required Skills And Knowledge (AHA CPR, etc.)? But they also said Qualifications heading. Could combine education/experience under Requirements and skills under Qualifications. Or vice versa. Let's follow typical: Requirements = education/experience; Qualifications = skills/certifications. - Skills: maybe the specific skills like AHA CPR, patient care skills, etc. But we already have that under Qualifications? Might be overlapping. Better to put Required Skills And Knowledge under Skills section. And Qualifications could be education/experience? Hmm. Let's decide: Section About the role: brief overview of role and hospital. Section Responsibilities: the big responsibilities list. Section Requirements: Education and Experience Requirements (HS diploma/GED, 0-6 months experience, preferred 1-2 years, license/certification none). Section Qualifications: maybe the Required Skills And Knowledge (AHA CPR, unit-specific safety education, one of the criteria: State Tested Nursing Aide Training, Acute Medical Surgical Training, Hospital Specific Training, or RN student with med surg rotation, or UC Health competency training). That seems like qualifications. Section Skills: maybe we could list specific skills like measuring vital signs, ADL assistance, etc. But those are in responsibilities. Could combine. But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps we combine Requirements and Qualifications into one? But instructions say prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We have Benefits substantive. Responsibilities substantive. About the role substantive. We could have Requirements (education/experience) and Qualifications (skills/training) as two sections. That's four sections total: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits. That's five sections. That's okay. We must not include Pay or Schedule. Now we need to format: use

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  for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate etc. We need to include location? It's substantive but not under a heading; we can put in About the role paragraph. We need to include "Unit Details" about welcoming new grads, opportunities for growth, cross train. That could be part of About the role. We need to include "Join our team as a Patient Care Assistant..." paragraph maybe also About the role. We need to include About UC Health description maybe also About the role? Could be separate but we don't have a heading for About UC Health. Could incorporate into About the role or maybe a separate section "About UC Health" but not in allowed headings list. The allowed headings list includes About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we should not add other headings. So we need to fit UC Health description somewhere, maybe under About the role as additional prose. Thus About the role will contain: role description, hospital description, unit details, location, UC Health description, join team paragraph. Now Responsibilities: we need to capture all responsibilities bullet points. The original has headings within responsibilities: PATIENT POPULATION - (CLINICAL ONLY): ... Patient Care Provides ... Communication ... Environment ... Teamwork ... Safety Measures ... We need to turn each of those into

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    • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can treat each bullet as list item. However there are subheadings; we could keep them as part of list items or we could keep headings as plain text? But we cannot use other headings besides

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      • . We need to ensure we capture all details. Let's extract responsibilities list: Under PATIENT POPULATION - (CLINICAL ONLY): - Engages in population appropriate communication. - Has knowledge of growth and development milestones and tasks. - Gives clear instructions to patients/family regarding treatment. - Involves family/guardian in the assessment, initial treatment and continuing care of the patient. - Identifies any physical limitations of the patient and deploys intervention when necessary. - Recognizes and responds appropriately to patients/families with behavioral health problems. - Interprets population related data and plans care appropriately. - Identifies and responds appropriately to different needs resulting from, unique psychological needs or those associated with religious / cultural norms. - Performs treatments, administers medication or operates equipment safely. - Recognizes and responds to signs/symptoms of abuse or neglect. Patient Care Provides all patient care in a manner that is culturally-based and age-specific. - Measures vital signs, records observation of skin integrity, intake & output, height & weight (bedside or w/c scale); reports all changes including mental status. - Specimen collection: routine urine, clean catch urine, 24-hour urine, collection of self-expectorant sputum. - Assists with activities of daily living (ADL’s), skin care, tube and catheter care, turning, positioning, transfer and ambulating, range of motion (ROM), hot and cold compresses. - Provides hygiene and comfort measures to include Bathing/showering, Pericare. - Changes linens as needed. - Empties drainage bags and records outputs, disposes of bodily fluids/waste. - Utilizes patient care equipment such as manual/hydraulic/electronic lift/hoyer lift/bed scale. - Removes and reapplies splints, braces, cervical collars, skin and skeletal traction, anti-embolic stockings. - Performs post-mortem care. - Distributes and removes food trays, sets up meal trays, positions and prepares patient for meals, assists and/or feeds patient, assists with menu selection, records calorie counts, provides snacks and fluids, monitors head of bed (HOB) with patients receiving tube feedings. - Assists with turning, coughing and deep breathing; provides follow-up to incentive spirometry; reapplies O2 cannula/mask, provide portable oxygen tank for transport. - May perform EKG’s, mobile care phlebotomy (MCP), and blood glucose. Communication - Communicates patient observations to RN timely and appropriately. - Orients patients and visitors to room and unit and updates the white boards appropriately. - Records measurements and patient data. - Documents treatments and procedures performed. - Responds to and utilizes nurse call system. - Reception and phone duties, as directed. - Retrieves information from the computer. Environment - Facilitates the maintenance of a clean, safe and organized environment for patients and coworkers. - Removes equipment when no longer in use to appropriate area for cleaning. - Re-orders and stocks materials as necessary. - Reports maintenance issues. Teamwork - Participates in patient admission, transfer and discharge. - Demonstrates helpfulness, cooperation and respect for team members in pursuit of unprecedented patient care. - Other duties as delegated Safety Measures - Ensures call lights are within reach of patients. - Answers call lights promptly. - Ensures placement of patient identification bands. - Ensures that side rails and restraints are applied for patient safety and per policy. - Uses proper body mechanics and universal precautions. We need to include all these as list items. Now Requirements: Education and Experience Requirements: Minimum Required: High School Diploma or GED required. LICENSE & CERTIFICATION: None required. Minimum Required: Minimum Required: 0-6 Months of experience required. Preferred: 1 - 2 Years equivalent experience. We need to preserve all. There's some duplication "Minimum Required: Minimum Required:" maybe a mistake but we keep as is. We'll put in
        • items. Now Qualifications: Required Skills And Knowledge: Trained and maintains proficiency in AHA CPR and patient care skills. Completes unit-specific hospital safety education. One of the following criteria is required for this role: State Tested Nursing Aide Training; Acute Medical Surgical Training or Hospital Specific Training. May be a student from an accredited RN program that has successfully completed a medical surgical rotation or another acute care rotation. If candidates do not have either of the initial two requirements, the candidate must successfully complete the UC Health competency training for PCA’s and additional orientation before being permitted to care for patients. We'll put as list items. Now Benefits: list: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance; Employee Paid Short- and Long-Term Disability; 401K; Tuition Reimbursement Opportunities; Community Discounts. We'll put as list. Now About the role: we need to include prose paragraphs. Let's craft About the role paragraph(s): - "UC Health is hiring a Full-Time Patient Care Assistant (PCA) for the 1st floor Cardiac/Neuro Med Surg unit for Day Shift at West Chester Hospital. The Patient Care Assistant provides basic direct patient care