Patient Care Associate - Mother Baby - PT Evenings with Benefits (3:15pm-11:45pm)
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use
for prose.
Do not repeat job title as heading. Do not put Job ID etc.
We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate etc.
We need to include About the role section: The initial paragraph about team members, culture, etc. That's prose.
Responsibilities: The long block after "Responsibilties". Should be turned into list items? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. The responsibilities are a paragraph with many sentences; we could break into list items each duty. But we must preserve all substantive information; we can convert each sentence into a list item. However we must not lose any detail. Could also keep as
but they said use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. The responsibilities constitute a list of duties, so better to make
- . We'll split by sentences.
Qualifications: There are subparts: Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required (list), Education, Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Preferred (list), Licenses And Certifications Required (list). We'll make
- for each.
Pay: Minimum rate of $19.63 Hourly. That's a specific pay. We'll make a
maybe.
Benefits: list: health, dental, vision, paid leave, tuition reimbursement, retirement benefits.
We need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We must not include application instructions etc. The posting includes "If you feel that the above description speaks directly to your strengths and capabilities, then please apply today!" That's application instruction; we should remove. Also lines about HMH committed to pay equity etc. That's boilerplate about pay transparency; but we need to preserve substantive info about pay. The paragraph about pay equity and transparency is somewhat boilerplate but includes the posted rate of pay info. We need to keep the substantive info: "The posted rate of pay in this job posting is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay for this role at the time of posting in accordance with the New Jersey Pay Transparency Act and does not reflect the full value of our market-competitive total rewards package." plus the following sentences about starting rate etc. That's a lot of detail about pay. We should keep all that as prose under Pay section? The instruction: Use
for prose. So we can put that entire block as a
under Pay heading. However we also have the specific minimum rate line. Could combine.
We must not include the line "Job Duties The starting rate of pay is provided for informational purposes only..." That's part of pay details.
We'll create sections:
About the role
Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.
Responsibilities
- The Patient Care Associate functions as a caregiver for a specific patient population to achieve desired outcomes.
- This position focuses on expanding knowledge and skills and provides effective direct and indirect care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients.
- Under the direction and supervision of the registered nurse, promotes patient satisfaction, comfort, and safety.
- Assists with a variety of patient, unit, and environment-related tasks.
- Participates in patient safety initiatives.
- This role also serves as Unit Services Representative for this patient population.
- The Unit Services Representative acts as a welcome ambassador to facilitate and maintain positive guest relations with our patients, family members, visitors, and physicians by welcoming and explaining hospital and unit policies and procedures and addressing problems and concerns.
- The Representative also performs clerical support for the unit and Nurse Manager.
- Assumes responsibility and accountability for patient care as a team member to achieve established departmental outcomes.
- Provide patient care, based on physical, psychosocial, education, safety, and related criteria that is appropriate to the age of the patients served in assigned service.
- Provides effective and safe patient outcomes through practice, judgment, and critical actions.
- Provides ongoing communication with patients, Nurses, and other members of the health care team regarding patient status and care rendered.
- Takes self-directed or self-motivated initiative to ensure patient satisfaction.
- Participate in interdisciplinary collaboration of our patient's plan of care from admission to discharge to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.
- Participate in Unit and Departmental Quality and Safety initiatives and activities.
- Welcomes patients and checks for proper identification bracelets.
- Prepares patients for assessment/admission, physical examination, and procedures.
- Takes vital signs under the direction of the RN and documents electronically according to the Medical Center policy, reporting abnormal results immediately to the RN.
- Performs and documents glucose finger stick/heel stick and collects other specimens including stool, urine, and sputum when directed by the RN.
- Observe and document patient intake and output.
- Provides hygiene and comfort care to patients including bathing, toileting/diapering, feeding, and bed making.
- Provides a safe patient environment by answering call lights/ phone calls from patients promptly and communicating with the RN immediately for any changes in patient condition.
- Identifies delivering parent/significant other and infant accurately.
- Obtains and documents patient weight, height/length, and head circumference as appropriate to the patient population.
- Assists with preparation as necessary assuring the patient is assisted with meals or fed as needed.
- Downloads Glucometer and TcB information per established policies.
- Demonstrates the knowledge and skill necessary to provide age-appropriate care to patients and families.
- Recognizes and responds to opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction.
- Maintains BLS certification and initiates interventions in emergent situations.
- Assists with patient transport to and from the unit/department as needed.
- Acts as a patient sitter when needed.
- Assists patients and families with any non-clinical questions, concerns, and/or personal needs (i.e. belongings, delays, support departments, etc.).
- Provides clerical support in completing Advance Directives including documentation, informing the physician, and collaborating with The Office of Patient Experience.
- Creates awareness of patient satisfaction in the unit by managing public displays with this information, i.e. communication boards.
- Orients families to the unit and room and reviews the welcome information and what to expect including instructions for the television, the telephone, meal ordering, visiting policy, parking, discharge options, and other non-clinical needs.
- Acts as a service recovery champion by handling, and routing inquiries/issues to appropriate individuals. Proactively seeks out issues and addresses them.
- Assures the environment is in appropriate condition and free of safety concerns. Reports safety concerns to the manager or designee.
- Initiates help desk tickets to resolve any IT and equipment issues as they occur.
- Monitors inventory, orders supplies, and equipment, and procures all items as needed using established channels.
- Performs A/D/T functions and patient charge entries that include makes bed assignments and/or moves in EPIC and inputs patient charges (billing ) for unit-specific procedures in Epic.
- Initiates, and maintains patient medical records by established policies.
- Identifies the needs of the patient population served and assists the professional nurse to modify and deliver care that is specific to those needs (i.e.: age, culture, language, hearing, and/or visually impaired).
- Communicate with patients and primary caregivers at their level of understanding.
- Adheres to HMH organizational standards, competencies, and standards of behavior.
- Performs other appropriate duties or projects of the department as assigned.
Qualifications
Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
- High School diploma, general equivalency diploma (GED), and/or GED equivalent programs.
- Completion of one of the following: Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA, or Medical Assistant (CMA), or Patient Care Technician program (PCT), or Fundamentals of Nursing program from an accredited school of nursing, or HMH PCT Apprenticeship Program, or have equivalent patient-facing healthcare experience.
Education, Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Preferred:
- Experienced in checking EKG, vital signs, and blood sugar preferred.
Licenses And Certifications Required:
- AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification within 60 days of entering position.
Pay
The posted rate of pay in this job posting is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay for this role at the time of posting in accordance with the New Jersey Pay Transparency Act and does not reflect the full value of our market-competitive total rewards package. The starting rate of pay is provided for informational purposes only and is not a guarantee of a specific offer. Posted hourly rates may be stated as an annual salary in the offer and posted annual salaries may be stated as an hourly rate in the offer, depending on the level and nature of the job duties and credentials of the candidate. The base compensation determined at the time of the offer may be different than the posted rate of pay based on a number of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to: Labor Market Data: Compensation is benchmarked against market data to ensure competitiveness; Experience: Years of relevant work experience; Education and Certifications: Level of education attained, including specialized certifications, credentials, completed apprenticeship programs or advanced training; Skills: Demonstrated proficiency in relevant skills and competencies; Geographic Location: Cost of living and market rates for the specific location; Internal Equity: Compensation is determined in a manner consistent with compensation ranges for similar roles within the organization; Budget and Grant Funding: Departmental budgets and any grant funding associated with the job position may impact the pay that can be offered. Some jobs may also be eligible for performance-based incentives, bonuses, or commissions not reflected in the starting rate. Certain positions may also be eligible for shift differentials for work performed on evening, night, or weekend shifts. In addition to
for prose. Do not repeat job title as heading. Do not put Job ID etc. We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate etc. We need to include About the role section: The initial paragraph about team members, culture, etc. That's prose. Responsibilities: The long block after "Responsibilties". Should be turned into list items? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. The responsibilities are a paragraph with many sentences; we could break into list items each duty. But we must preserve all substantive information; we can convert each sentence into a list item. However we must not lose any detail. Could also keep as
but they said use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. The responsibilities constitute a list of duties, so better to make
- . We'll split by sentences.
Qualifications: There are subparts: Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required (list), Education, Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Preferred (list), Licenses And Certifications Required (list). We'll make
- for each.
Pay: Minimum rate of $19.63 Hourly. That's a specific pay. We'll make a
maybe. Benefits: list: health, dental, vision, paid leave, tuition reimbursement, retirement benefits. We need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We must not include application instructions etc. The posting includes "If you feel that the above description speaks directly to your strengths and capabilities, then please apply today!" That's application instruction; we should remove. Also lines about HMH committed to pay equity etc. That's boilerplate about pay transparency; but we need to preserve substantive info about pay. The paragraph about pay equity and transparency is somewhat boilerplate but includes the posted rate of pay info. We need to keep the substantive info: "The posted rate of pay in this job posting is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay for this role at the time of posting in accordance with the New Jersey Pay Transparency Act and does not reflect the full value of our market-competitive total rewards package." plus the following sentences about starting rate etc. That's a lot of detail about pay. We should keep all that as prose under Pay section? The instruction: Use
for prose. So we can put that entire block as a
under Pay heading. However we also have the specific minimum rate line. Could combine. We must not include the line "Job Duties The starting rate of pay is provided for informational purposes only..." That's part of pay details. We'll create sections:
About the role
Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.
Responsibilities
- The Patient Care Associate functions as a caregiver for a specific patient population to achieve desired outcomes.
- This position focuses on expanding knowledge and skills and provides effective direct and indirect care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients.
- Under the direction and supervision of the registered nurse, promotes patient satisfaction, comfort, and safety.
- Assists with a variety of patient, unit, and environment-related tasks.
- Participates in patient safety initiatives.
- This role also serves as Unit Services Representative for this patient population.
- The Unit Services Representative acts as a welcome ambassador to facilitate and maintain positive guest relations with our patients, family members, visitors, and physicians by welcoming and explaining hospital and unit policies and procedures and addressing problems and concerns.
- The Representative also performs clerical support for the unit and Nurse Manager.
- Assumes responsibility and accountability for patient care as a team member to achieve established departmental outcomes.
- Provide patient care, based on physical, psychosocial, education, safety, and related criteria that is appropriate to the age of the patients served in assigned service.
- Provides effective and safe patient outcomes through practice, judgment, and critical actions.
- Provides ongoing communication with patients, Nurses, and other members of the health care team regarding patient status and care rendered.
- Takes self-directed or self-motivated initiative to ensure patient satisfaction.
- Participate in interdisciplinary collaboration of our patient's plan of care from admission to discharge to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.
- Participate in Unit and Departmental Quality and Safety initiatives and activities.
- Welcomes patients and checks for proper identification bracelets.
- Prepares patients for assessment/admission, physical examination, and procedures.
- Takes vital signs under the direction of the RN and documents electronically according to the Medical Center policy, reporting abnormal results immediately to the RN.
- Performs and documents glucose finger stick/heel stick and collects other specimens including stool, urine, and sputum when directed by the RN.
- Observe and document patient intake and output.
- Provides hygiene and comfort care to patients including bathing, toileting/diapering, feeding, and bed making.
- Provides a safe patient environment by answering call lights/ phone calls from patients promptly and communicating with the RN immediately for any changes in patient condition.
- Identifies delivering parent/significant other and infant accurately.
- Obtains and documents patient weight, height/length, and head circumference as appropriate to the patient population.
- Assists with preparation as necessary assuring the patient is assisted with meals or fed as needed.
- Downloads Glucometer and TcB information per established policies.
- Demonstrates the knowledge and skill necessary to provide age-appropriate care to patients and families.
- Recognizes and responds to opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction.
- Maintains BLS certification and initiates interventions in emergent situations.
- Assists with patient transport to and from the unit/department as needed.
- Acts as a patient sitter when needed.
- Assists patients and families with any non-clinical questions, concerns, and/or personal needs (i.e. belongings, delays, support departments, etc.).
- Provides clerical support in completing Advance Directives including documentation, informing the physician, and collaborating with The Office of Patient Experience.
- Creates awareness of patient satisfaction in the unit by managing public displays with this information, i.e. communication boards.
- Orients families to the unit and room and reviews the welcome information and what to expect including instructions for the television, the telephone, meal ordering, visiting policy, parking, discharge options, and other non-clinical needs.
- Acts as a service recovery champion by handling, and routing inquiries/issues to appropriate individuals. Proactively seeks out issues and addresses them.
- Assures the environment is in appropriate condition and free of safety concerns. Reports safety concerns to the manager or designee.
- Initiates help desk tickets to resolve any IT and equipment issues as they occur.
- Monitors inventory, orders supplies, and equipment, and procures all items as needed using established channels.
- Performs A/D/T functions and patient charge entries that include makes bed assignments and/or moves in EPIC and inputs patient charges (billing ) for unit-specific procedures in Epic.
- Initiates, and maintains patient medical records by established policies.
- Identifies the needs of the patient population served and assists the professional nurse to modify and deliver care that is specific to those needs (i.e.: age, culture, language, hearing, and/or visually impaired).
- Communicate with patients and primary caregivers at their level of understanding.
- Adheres to HMH organizational standards, competencies, and standards of behavior.
- Performs other appropriate duties or projects of the department as assigned.
Qualifications
Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
- High School diploma, general equivalency diploma (GED), and/or GED equivalent programs.
- Completion of one of the following: Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA, or Medical Assistant (CMA), or Patient Care Technician program (PCT), or Fundamentals of Nursing program from an accredited school of nursing, or HMH PCT Apprenticeship Program, or have equivalent patient-facing healthcare experience.
Education, Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Preferred:
- Experienced in checking EKG, vital signs, and blood sugar preferred.
Licenses And Certifications Required:
- AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification within 60 days of entering position.
Pay
The posted rate of pay in this job posting is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay for this role at the time of posting in accordance with the New Jersey Pay Transparency Act and does not reflect the full value of our market-competitive total rewards package. The starting rate of pay is provided for informational purposes only and is not a guarantee of a specific offer. Posted hourly rates may be stated as an annual salary in the offer and posted annual salaries may be stated as an hourly rate in the offer, depending on the level and nature of the job duties and credentials of the candidate. The base compensation determined at the time of the offer may be different than the posted rate of pay based on a number of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to: Labor Market Data: Compensation is benchmarked against market data to ensure competitiveness; Experience: Years of relevant work experience; Education and Certifications: Level of education attained, including specialized certifications, credentials, completed apprenticeship programs or advanced training; Skills: Demonstrated proficiency in relevant skills and competencies; Geographic Location: Cost of living and market rates for the specific location; Internal Equity: Compensation is determined in a manner consistent with compensation ranges for similar roles within the organization; Budget and Grant Funding: Departmental budgets and any grant funding associated with the job position may impact the pay that can be offered. Some jobs may also be eligible for performance-based incentives, bonuses, or commissions not reflected in the starting rate. Certain positions may also be eligible for shift differentials for work performed on evening, night, or weekend shifts. In addition to
- for each.
Pay: Minimum rate of $19.63 Hourly. That's a specific pay. We'll make a
- . We'll split by sentences.
Qualifications: There are subparts: Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required (list), Education, Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Preferred (list), Licenses And Certifications Required (list). We'll make
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. The responsibilities constitute a list of duties, so better to make