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Patient Care Associate (PCA) - Cardiopulmonary/Renal Full Time, Nights

Mercy Hospital St. Louis Critical Care Medicine Fellowship · Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area · 4 wk ago
HealthcareFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We need to parse job description. Key content: - Under direction of RN/LPN, assists in individualized care of patient to achieve highest level of wellness. - Works cooperatively with others as part of a team; recognizes importance of group goals. - Performs designated clinical procedures and non-clinical support tasks essential to providing care to the patient. That's responsibilities. - Position Details: Why Choose Mercy? includes benefits list: Day-One Medical, Dental & Vision; Work/Life Balance with Flexible Time Off; Competitive Salary; Paid Parental Leave; Employer-Matched Retirement; Career Growth and Opportunities for Professional Development; Tuition Reimbursement: Up to $2,000/year; Supportive Leadership Culture. - About Our Facility: details about hospital, beds, specialty centers, recognitions, accreditations. - Unit Overview: fast-paced 36-bed unit serves patents (typo) with variety of diverse illnesses; provides well-rounded experience. - Education: High school diploma, G.E.D, CNA/CPTC, or enrolled in a healthcare career program through high school curriculum or age 18 and able to participate in Mercy's UAP training program, and/or a current co-worker of Mercy. - Licensure: none required. - Experience: None required. If no previous experience, Mercy will provide a required 175-hour training program that meets state requirements; must be completed within 90 days of hire. - Certifications: BLS Required within one month of hire, completion of PCA competencies within 3 months of hire. - Other: Minimum Physical Requirements: push/pull/lift 50 pounds regularly; prolonged standing/walking each shift; ability to grip, reach, bend, kneel, twist, squat. - Preferred Certifications: Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). - Why Mercy? (already covered benefits). Also mention: From day one, Mercy offers outstanding benefits - including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, tuition support, and matched retirement plans for team members working 32+ hours per pay period. Join a caring, collaborative team where your voice matters. At Mercy, you'll help shape the future of healthcare through innovation, technology, and compassion. As we grow, you'll grow with us. - keyword(s): Patient Care Associate, Nursing Assistant, PCA, Nurse Tech, Nurse Technician. We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. No Job ID. We need to include sections only if real content. Potential sections: - About the role: could be the introductory paragraph describing role. - Responsibilities: bullet list of duties. - Requirements: education, licensure, experience, certifications, physical requirements. - Qualifications: maybe preferred certifications? Could combine. - Skills: maybe teamwork, communication? Not explicitly given. Could omit if not specific. - Benefits: list of benefits. - Pay: "Competitive Salary" is mentioned but not specific; we should not include Pay section if only vague "Competitive Salary" without number? The rule: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state "Competitive Salary" but that's vague. However it's still stating something about pay. The rule says: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. "Competitive Salary" is somewhat vague but it's a statement. I'd consider it as stating pay exists but not specific. Might be considered filler? The rule says avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". "Competitive Salary" is similar. Safer to omit Pay section. - Schedule: not mentioned. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications (maybe Preferred Certifications), Benefits. We need to use

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    for prose. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. We need to include details like facility description, unit overview maybe under About the role or separate? Could be part of About the role. But we need to decide where to put facility details. Could be under About the role as prose. Let's structure:

    About the role

    Under the direction of the RN or LPN, assists in the individualized care of the patient to achieve the patient's highest level of wellness. Works cooperatively with others as part of a team; recognizes the importance of group goals. Performs designated clinical procedures and non-clinical support tasks essential to providing care to the patient.

    Maybe also include facility and unit overview as part of About the role? Could add another paragraph. But we must not lose substantive info. So include facility description and unit overview in About the role as separate paragraphs. Thus:

    About the role

    Under the direction of the RN or LPN, assists in the individualized care of the patient to achieve the patient's highest level of wellness. Works cooperatively with others as part of a team; recognizes the importance of group goals. Performs designated clinical procedures and non-clinical support tasks essential to providing care to the patient.

    Serving the OKC region for 135+ years, Mercy is a 24/7 full‑service hospital with 349 beds and featured specialty centers including the Mercy Breast Center, Coletta Cancer Center, Meinders Neuro Science Institute, Birthplace & Level III Neonatal ICU. The facility has been consistently recognized for excellence, including Forbes America’s Top Hospitals (2026), Newsweek Best Neurological Hospitals (2024 & 2025), U.S. News Best Hospitals for Maternity Care (2024), Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade A (multiple seasons 2024–2025), and American Heart Association Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus (2024). Accreditations include Center of Excellence for Hernia Surgery, Center of Excellence for GI, Advanced Certification for Comprehensive Stroke Centers (The Joint Commission).

    This fast‑paced 36‑bed unit serves patients with a variety of diverse illnesses, providing well‑rounded experience in many different aspects of medical needs and patient care.

    Now Responsibilities: we already covered some duties; but we could list them as bullet points: - Assist in individualized patient care to achieve highest level of wellness. - Work cooperatively with team members, recognizing group goals. - Perform designated clinical procedures. - Perform non‑clinical support tasks essential to patient care. We could also include other duties like following RN/LPN direction etc. But we already have. Thus:

    Responsibilities

    • Assist in the individualized care of the patient to achieve the patient's highest level of wellness.
    • Work cooperatively with others as part of a team; recognize the importance of group goals.
    • Perform designated clinical procedures.
    • Perform non‑clinical support tasks essential to providing care to the patient.
    Now Requirements: include education, licensure, experience, certifications, physical requirements. We need to list as bullet points maybe. Education: High school diploma, G.E.D, CNA/CPTC, or enrolled in a healthcare career program through high school curriculum or age 18 and able to participate in Mercy's UAP training program, and/or a current co-worker of Mercy. Licensure: None required. Experience: None required. If no previous experience, Mercy will provide a required 175‑hour training program that meets state requirements; must be completed within 90 days of hire. Certifications: BLS required within one month of hire; completion of PCA competencies within 3 months of hire. Other: Minimum Physical Requirements: push, pull, and/or lift 50 pounds regularly; prolonged standing and walking each shift; ability to grip, reach, bend, kneel, twist, and squat. We could also mention Preferred Certifications: CNA. But maybe put Preferred Certifications under Qualifications. Thus Requirements section bullet list. Now Qualifications: maybe Preferred Certifications: Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). Also maybe mention "keyword(s)"? Not needed. We could also include "Ability to work in fast‑paced environment" but not explicit. Thus:

    Qualifications

    • Preferred certification: Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA).
    Now Benefits: list from Why Choose Mercy? and Why Mercy? plus other benefits. List: - Day‑One Medical, Dental & Vision - Work/Life Balance with Flexible Time Off - Competitive Salary (maybe include but it's vague; but we already omitted Pay section; but we can include as benefit? It's still a benefit. The rule about Pay section only; we can include Competitive Salary as benefit under Benefits. It's not a separate Pay section. So we can include it. - Paid Parental Leave - Employer‑Matched Retirement - Career Growth and Opportunities for Professional Development - Tuition Reimbursement: Up to $2,000/year - Supportive Leadership Culture (description) - From day one, Mercy offers outstanding benefits - including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, tuition support, and matched retirement plans for team members working 32+ hours per pay period. - Join a caring, collaborative team where your voice matters. - At Mercy, you'll help shape the future of healthcare through innovation, technology, and compassion. - As we grow, you'll grow with us. But we need to avoid duplication. The list already includes medical/dental/vision, paid time off, tuition support, matched retirement. The later paragraph repeats some. We should preserve all substantive information but avoid duplicated lines. So we can combine. Thus Benefits section bullet list with unique items: - Day‑One Medical, Dental & Vision coverage - Flexible Time Off for work/life balance - Competitive Salary - Paid Parental Leave - Employer‑Matched Retirement plan - Career growth and opportunities for professional development - Tuition reimbursement: up to $2,000 per year - Supportive leadership culture that emphasizes collaboration, empowerment, decision‑making, and compassion/accountability - Opportunities to shape the future of healthcare through innovation, technology, and compassion as Mercy grows We could also mention "For team members working 32+ hours per pay period" but that's detail; we could include in bullet. Let's include: "Benefits available to team members working 32+ hours per pay period: medical, dental, vision, paid time off, tuition support, matched retirement." But we already have those. Ok. Now we need to ensure we don't include any boilerplate like EEO etc. Not present. Now output only HTML fragment. Let's craft final HTML. Check for any missing substantive info: The keyword list maybe not needed but could be included as a paragraph under About the role? Not required. We should not invent or summarize away detail. We have preserved details: education specifics, licensure, experience, training program, certifications, physical requirements, preferred certification, benefits details, facility description, unit overview. We didn't include the "Position Details Why Choose Mercy?" heading but we incorporated its content. We didn't include the "Why Mercy?" paragraph separate but we incorporated. We didn't include the "Accreditations & Centers Of Excellence" list but we included in facility paragraph. We didn't include the "Consistently Recognized For Excellence" list but we included. We didn't include the "Featured specialty centers include:" list but we included. We didn't include the "Serving the OKC region for 135+ years" etc. We didn't include the "U.S. News Best Hospitals for Maternity Care (2024)"

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