Patient Safety Attendant

Hourly Wage Estimate: $17.40 - $26.08 / hour. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary include your specific skills, years of experience, and comparison to other employees in this role.

About the role

The Patient Safety Attendant (PSA) participates in high-quality, patient-centered care by providing continuous observation and monitoring for high-risk patients. In collaboration with the patient care team, the PSA ensures the patient environment is free of obstacles and minimizes risk of falls and accidental or intentional self-harm.

Responsibilities

• Maintains a direct line of sight with patient at all times, including while family and/or visitors are in the room
• Accompanies patient and ensures patient safety during transportation, testing, and procedures occurring away from the patient’s normal environment
• Establishes a safe, risk-free patient environment by utilizing knowledge of fall prevention protocols, infection control measures, and self-harm prevention
• Performs room assessment regularly and after any visitations
• Creates clear, accurate documentation on patient status and activity during the shift
• Performs other duties as needed when not providing direct patient observation, such as:
  • Assisting nursing staff with tasks like transporting patients, delivering equipment and supplies, transporting specimens, delivering patient trays, answering phones, and assisting visitors
• Participates as an active member of the health care team and positively promotes the team to patients, families, caregivers, and colleagues
• Participates in hospital or departmental performance improvement activities and seeks opportunities to improve department and inter-department processes
• Restocks non-medicinal patient room supplies as needed

Requirements

• 1-2 years of experience in a healthcare setting preferred
• De-escalation training (required within 90 days of hire)
• High school diploma or equivalent
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date)

Benefits

Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of our colleagues. Available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources:
  • 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Flexible spending accounts
  • Preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support, and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection, and consumer discounts

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

About the employer

Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center provides Las Vegas and the Southwest region with high-quality, advanced healthcare services. We have been serving our community for nearly 60 years. Sunrise Hospital has been a Consumer Choice Award recipient for 15 consecutive years. We are the largest acute care facility in Nevada and the state's only fresh post-op Pediatric CICU. Our facility offers an advanced comprehensive stroke center, which received the Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award from the GWTG.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.