Patient Care Assistant - Recovery PRN

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, and 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.

Responsibilities

• Under direct supervision of a licensed nurse, the Patient Care Assistant performs a variety of routine duties involving: 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.
• Assisting with activities of daily living (bathing, dressing, grooming, shaving, oral and denture care, skin and nail care, bed making, and maintaining a clean environment.)
• Promoting and maintaining mobility (ambulating, transferring, transporting, turning, positioning, lifting, and performing range of motion exercises.)
• Assisting with nutrition and hydration (feeding and assisting patients with eating and drinking.)
• Assisting 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 (measures and records vital signs, weight, oral intake, output including urine, emesis, and stool.)
• NOTE: Orientation requires your availability to complete Clinical Orientation on your first full week (Monday-Friday from 8am-5pm.)

Reports To: Registered Nurse (RN)/Nurse Manager [JC 031001] and/or RN/Assistant Nurse Manager [JC 030303]; Supervises: None.

Requirements

• 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 (required prior to performing patient care)
• NOTE: TMH may provide the opportunity for BLS certification training on-site as part of clinical orientation (as needed)