Patient Observation/Care Assistant, Patient Observation Job at UofL Health
Overview:
We are Hiring at UofL Hospital
About Us
Our Mission
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Benefits & Perks
Job Title: Patient Observation/Care Assistant
We are Hiring at UofL Hospital
Location: 530 S Jackson Street Lou, KY 40202
Shift Options: Full Time, 7p-7a
About Us
UofL Health – UofL Hospital, an academic teaching and research hospital, is at the heart of the Louisville Metro area in downtown Louisville. UofL Hospital offers a second-to-none cancer center, world-renowned trauma team and a uniquely streamlined, nationally accredited stroke center—the latest innovations in a history of world-class care. UofL Hospital is the only adult Level I Trauma Center in the region. The Trauma Center admits more than 3,000 patients each year, including 1,500 patients a year who live outside Jefferson County and its surrounding counties—making it a resource not only for Louisville residents but also for people throughout Kentuckiana. Included within the trauma care provided at UofL Hospital is the only dedicated Burn Center in Kentucky. Within UofL Hospital, UofL Health – Brown Cancer Center features multidisciplinary teams specializing in treating cancers of the blood and bone marrow, breast, head and neck, lungs, and skin, as well as the central nervous system (brain and spine), gastrointestinal, genitourinary and reproductive systems.
Our Mission
As an academic health care system, we will transform the health of the communities we serve through compassionate, innovative, patient-centered care.
Responsibilities:
- Delivers successful service to our internal and external customers by adhering to critical success standards: demonstrating accountability and commitment to quality and safety standards; providing exceptional customer service; and exerting effort to insure a positive work environment that demonstrates dedication to the hospital’s mission, vision and values
- Performs delegated and ancillary basic nursing skills, including activities of daily living, monitoring of patient condition, body mechanics, providing nutritional support and other activities as appropriate to clinical service, in accordance with hospital standards, nursing standards of care, and policies and procedures.
- May perform skills, within scope of practice for unlicensed assistive personnel. These skills include, but are not limited to, the collection of specimens, use of specialized equipment, restraint monitoring and patient elimination procedures. Communicates performance of these skills to the patient’s Registered Nurse and other members of the healthcare team.
- Performs functional assignments per unit standards of care, including such activities as patient admission and discharge procedures, unit environmental organizational tasks, and others as appropriate to service.
- Performs and documents point-of-care testing, patient mobility and exercise, comfort, rest, sleep and care needs, patient hygiene, grooming, dressing, skincare, dietary, toileting and elimination needs.
- Assists with transport.
- Performs clerical duties; use of a fax machine, computers, medical transcription, and Xerox machines may be required.
- Assists other members of the nursing care team and/or other disciplines.
- Demonstrates appropriate emergency and patient safety procedures, including management of safety devices and equipment. Maintains a safe, comfortable and therapeutic environment for patients/families in accordance with hospital standards.
- May be assigned as a
- Monitors for patient safety, including documentation every 15 minutes on suicidal or homicidal patients.
- Provides for safe environment for suicidal and homicidal patients, clearing the room of possible items which could cause harm.
- Maintains a clean and uncluttered room environment.
- Receives oncoming and gives off going reports and notifies nurse with any change in condition.
- Participates in training, development and continuing education activities to improve role functioning.
- Responsible for knowing and demonstrating National Patient Safety standards. Participates in department-based activities and initiatives to improve and ensure a safe environment.
- Participates in performance improvement activities; quality improvement and patient safety activities; assists in maintaining compliance with Joint Commission accreditation and other internal and external regulatory standards including the code of conduct.
- Communicates effectively with members of the health care team, patients and families, often under stress or emergency situations.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Required Qualifications
High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent- Basic Life Support (BLS) accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA)
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in healthcare setting
Benefits & Perks
- Competitive Pay & Benefits Options
- Paid Vacation, Sick days, and Holidays
- Free tuition to UofL for Part- and Full-time employees for Child/Spouse/Domestic Partner
- 401K with Employer Match
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