JOB DESCRIPTION: To provide technical assistance and supportive patient care to meet the needs of individual patients throughout assigned areas.
SPECIFIC JOB RELATED DUTIES:
• Collects, reports and documents data: Vital signs, height and weight, intake and output, pulse oximetry, and collects specimens.
• Performs and reports POCT.
• Assists with patient activities and care as assigned by the charge nurse/designee as indicated by the patient's plan of care
• Provides for patients' personal hygiene: Bathes patients, performs oral suctioning and superficial wound care, assists with chronic wound care, provides skin care for patient with TED hose, SCD, casts, skeletal pins, assists with elimination, cares for the incontinent patient, cares for the patient with a urinary catheter, assists or gives cleansing enemas, sitz baths, non-sterile douches, and provides ostomy care.
• Assists with feeding.
• Ambulates, positions, and turns patients and cares for the patient with altered mobility.
• Assists with patient safety related to age and condition: Assists with patient restraints, assists with patient specific safety precautions, collects, reports and documents data related to patient needs/emergencies and usual patient and family behavior, and cares for the patient from a correctional environment.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: High school or equivalent AND completion of one of the following technical programs:
SALARY RANGE: $14 - $20.60 per hour, commensurate with experience.
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