Patient Care Associate (PCA)- PRN Pelham

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for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections where posting has real specific content. The posting includes: Position Summary (maybe About the role). Minimum Requirements (Education, Experience, License/Registration/Certifications). Preferred Requirements (Education, Experience, License/Registration/Certifications). Job Responsibilities (list). Also there is "Further details on activities of daily living..." etc. So we can have sections: About the role (position summary). Requirements (minimum requirements). Preferred Qualifications (preferred requirements). Responsibilities (core job responsibilities). Possibly Skills (maybe implied but not explicit). Benefits, Pay, Schedule not present, so omit. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. We need to preserve all substantive info. Use

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  for prose. We need to include headings only when there is real specific content. Let's extract content. Position Summary: "The Patient Care Associate (PCA) is responsible for patient related clerical activities, unit clerical duties, computerized order entry procedures, and other unit activities, as applicable. The PCA must be able to provide and understand the specific communication needs of patients, families, and visitors. Under the direction of a Registered Nurse, the PCA provides focused non-licensed clinical care for patients throughout the age continuum including phlebotomy, basic nursing skills, etc., and environmental assistance to facilitate quality service and improve patient outcomes. The PCA will document and communicate with team members in a timely manner the patient progress, needs and problems. Collaborates with Leadership in developing and implementing the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare Systems, Mission, and Goals." That's prose. Minimum Requirements: Education: High School Graduate or equivalent 17-year-olds that will obtain a High School Diploma or GED within six months. Experience: N/A (so we should not include if it's N/A? The rule: do NOT emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text like "N/A". So we should omit Experience line if it's N/A. License/Registration/Certifications: N/A also omit. So Minimum Requirements only has Education line. Preferred Requirements: Education: N/A (omit). Experience: Hospital experience, Graduate Nurse, Certificate from an approved multi-skilled technician program, Completion of 1st semester of Nursing Clinicals. License/Registration/Certifications: Phlebotomy Certificate, CNA, BLS. Thus Preferred Requirements includes Experience list and Certifications list. Job Responsibilities: list of many items. We need to turn into

  • . The list includes many bullet-like sentences separated by line breaks. We'll parse them. Let's extract responsibilities lines: - Basic Computer Skills - Assists patients with activities of daily living in a safe, timely and courteous manner - Performs personal hygiene care with respect to privacy, dignity and needs of the patient - Offers back rubs, prepares for meal times and sleep hours - Delivers meals/snacks and water in a timely manner - Performs vital signs, weights/heights, intakes and outputs with accuracy and within established time frame and/or as requested. - Documents written and verbal communication, which is timely and effective, communicates changes in patient status, actual and potential needs of patient/families/visitors to registered nurse. - Provides care relative to the age-specific needs of the patient on the unit by demonstrating knowledge of the principles of growth and development - Knowledgeable in use of and response to Code Alert/ Facility Alerts - Identifies areas for improvement and seeks ways to work on self-defined weaknesses - Remains committed to unit, department and division goals - Attends continuing education classes for improvement offered at Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System. - Reports risk management concerns to appropriate person - Adheres to proper chain of command. - Hourly Rounds - Bedside Shift Report - Further details on activities of daily living, hygiene care, unit activities, and procedures below: (then sublist) Then sublist: Bathing Shower Bed Personal Hygiene Incontinent Care Mouth Care Nail Care Bed Making Care of Dentures Hair Care Personal Care Back rubs Call lights within reach Side rails up/bed low position Anticipates needs Prepares patients for meals Delivers and collects meal trays Assists with feedings Provides fresh water and nourishments Unit Activities Puts supplies away Keeps refrigerator clean and organized and ensures all contents are within current date of use. Straightens, tidies and organizes clean/dirty utility rooms Performs other activities as assigned. Special Procedures Applies, removes and records as directed non-sterile heat and cold therapy. Assists with admissions, discharges, transferring and placing patients. Empty drainage devices Foley bags Ostomy bags Oral/NG suction catheter Records and advises nurse of findings Collects as directed and records routine non-sterile specimens. Urine Feces Sputum Performs and records peri and Foley catheter care as directed Measures and records PO intake and output Takes and records height and weight as directed Performs as directed turning, positioning, coughing and deep breathing patients. With proven competency, performs other functions for particular specialty areas (enemas, placement of monitoring leads, documentation). Other Duties as Assigned We need to include all these as list items. Could flatten. We should not include headings like "Further details on activities of daily living, hygiene care, unit activities, and procedures below:" as a separate heading; it's just prose maybe. Could treat as a

    then list. Simplify: We'll create a

    for responsibilities, each line as
    • . Might be long but okay. We must not include filler like "N/A". Already omitted. We need sections: About the role (position summary). Requirements (minimum requirements). Preferred Qualifications (preferred requirements). Responsibilities (job responsibilities). Possibly Skills? Not explicit; we could skip. We must not create Pay/Benefits/Schedule sections. Now produce HTML fragment. Structure:

      About the role

      ...position summary...

      Requirements

      • Education: High School Graduate or equivalent; 17-year-olds that will obtain a High School Diploma or GED within six months
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      • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So requirements list is a list; we can make each requirement as
      • . Since only education, we can still
      • .

        Preferred Qualifications

        • Experience: Hospital experience; Graduate Nurse; Certificate from an approved multi-skilled technician program; Completion of 1st semester of Nursing Clinicals
        • License/Registration/Certifications: Phlebotomy Certificate; CNA; BLS

        Responsibilities

        • Basic Computer Skills
        • Assists patients with activities of daily living in a safe, timely and courteous manner
        • Performs personal hygiene care with respect to privacy, dignity and needs of the patient
        • Offers back rubs, prepares for meal times and sleep hours
        • Delivers meals/snacks and water in a timely manner
        • Performs vital signs, weights/heights, intakes and outputs with accuracy and within established time frame and/or as requested.
        • Documents written and verbal communication, which is timely and effective, communicates changes in patient status, actual and potential needs of patient/families/visitors to registered nurse.
        • Provides care relative to the age-specific needs of the patient on the unit by demonstrating knowledge of the principles of growth and development
        • Knowledgeable in use of and response to Code Alert/ Facility Alerts
        • Identifies areas for improvement and seeks ways to work on self-defined weaknesses
        • Remains committed to unit, department and division goals
        • Attends continuing education classes for improvement offered at Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System.
        • Reports risk management concerns to appropriate person
        • Adheres to proper chain of command.
        • Hourly Rounds
        • Bedside Shift Report
        • Bathing
        • Shower
        • Bed
        • Personal Hygiene
        • Incontinent Care
        • Mouth Care
        • Nail Care
        • Bed Making
        • Care of Dentures
        • Hair Care
        • Personal Care
        • Back rubs
        • Call lights within reach
        • Side rails up/bed low position
        • Anticipates needs
        • Prepares patients for meals
        • Delivers and collects meal trays
        • Assists with feedings
        • Provides fresh water and nourishments
        • Puts supplies away
        • Keeps refrigerator clean and organized and ensures all contents are within current date of use.
        • Straightens, tidies and organizes clean/dirty utility rooms
        • Performs other activities as assigned.
        • Applies, removes and records as directed non-sterile heat and cold therapy.
        • Assists with admissions, discharges, transferring and placing patients.
        • Empty drainage devices
        • Foley bags
        • Ostomy bags
        • Oral/NG suction catheter
        • Records and advises nurse of findings
        • Collects as directed and records routine non-sterile specimens.
        • Urine
        • Feces
        • Sputum
        • Performs and records peri and Foley catheter care as directed
        • Measures and records PO intake and output
        • Takes and records height and weight as directed
        • Performs as directed turning, positioning, coughing and deep breathing patients.
        • With proven competency, performs other functions for particular specialty areas (enemas, placement of monitoring leads, documentation).
        • Other Duties as Assigned
        Check for any duplicated lines: we have "Back rubs" appears twice (once earlier in responsibilities list and again in the sublist). The original had "Offers back rubs, prepares for meal times and sleep hours" and later "Back rubs" under personal care list. It's okay to keep both as they are distinct entries; but could be considered duplicate. The rule: remove duplicated lines. We should deduplicate identical lines. Let's see duplicates: - "Back rubs" appears as part of "Offers back rubs, prepares for meal times and sleep hours" (that's a longer phrase) and also as a separate "Back rubs". Not identical, so keep. - Any other duplicates? "Personal Care" appears as a phrase in responsibilities list? Actually we have "Personal Care" as a separate item later; also earlier we have "Performs personal hygiene care...". Not duplicate. - "Bed" appears as separate item and also in "Bed Making". Not duplicate. - "Assists patients with activities of daily living..." appears only once. - "Delivers meals/snacks and water..." appears once. - "Delivers and collects meal trays" appears later. - "Provides fresh water and nourishments" appears once. - "Performs other activities as assigned." appears once. - "Other Duties as Assigned" appears at end. Thus fine. Now ensure we didn't include