About the Role
Nuvance Health cultivates an inclusive culture where everyone feels welcomed, respected, and supported. Join a team of 15,000+ strong hearts and open minds if you share our values of connected, personal, agile, and imaginative.
Responsibilities
- Assists in the delivery of patient care by performing specific patient care tasks per scope of service and as directed by the Registered Nurse.
- Assists with admissions, transfers, discharges, and transport of patients.
- Obtains and records Temperature, Pulse, Respirations, Blood Pressure, Oxygen saturation, weights, and Blood Glucose testing. Reports abnormalities and condition changes to primary nurse promptly.
- Demonstrates competence in advanced skills to include, but not limited to: oral suctioning, enemas (no Fleets enemas), clean dressings after a RN assessment, tube feeding set-up, external catheter (condom catheter), post-mortem care and suction canister set-up.
- Communicates effectively and frequently with health care team members to share information and solve problems in a positive and result-oriented manner both verbally and electronically.
- Documents legibly on all hospital forms using standardized abbreviations.
- Gets patient report from the RN and off-going PCT at the beginning of the shift. Gives end-of-shift report to the primary nurse and oncoming PCT at the end of the shift.
- Participates in walking rounds with the oncoming and off going PCT at shift change.
- Provides personalized care to patients and families.
- Identifies and documents special needs on the patient rounding sheet.
- Utilizes available educational materials, programs, nursing literature and resource personnel for career development and attends mandatory in-services to maintain unit competencies.
- Utilizes material, equipment and time in a safe, therapeutic and cost effective manner.
- Assists with appropriate tasks in all code situations (i.e. CPR, obtaining equipment, etc.) under the direction of the Code Blue Team.
- Adheres to Organizational infection control practices and policies and to established safety and security policies, including using two (2) identifiers whenever taking blood samples or performing any procedure.
- Assists with maintaining the general cleanliness and appearance of areas on the unit, including cleaning treatment rooms, showers, commodes, IV poles, kitchens, counters, trash, storage areas, linen rooms, and staff lounge.
- Maintain and Model REACH Values (Respect, Excellence, Accountability, Compassion, Honor).
- Demonstrates regular, reliable and predictable attendance.
- Performs other duties as required.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED.
- AHA BLS healthcare provider certification required within 90 days from DOH (PCT I) or date of hire (PCT II).
- Minimum of three (3) months experience as a PCT or currently in a junior semester of an Associates or Bachelor’s nursing program (PCT II).
Skills
- General knowledge of high school subject matter including sciences, simple medical procedures / terminology, and office equipment.
- BLS certification.
- Effective and frequent communication with health care team members.
- Positive and result-oriented problem solving.
- Legible documentation on hospital forms using standardized abbreviations.
- Effective patient reporting.
- Personalized patient and family care.
- Identification and documentation of special needs.
- Utilization of educational materials and resources for career development.
- Attendance at mandatory in-services.
- Safe, therapeutic, and cost-effective utilization of material, equipment, and time.
- Assistance in code situations.
- Adherence to infection control practices and policies.
- Adherence to established safety and security policies.
- Use of two (2) identifiers whenever taking blood samples or performing any procedure.
- Maintaining general cleanliness and appearance of unit areas.
- Modeling REACH Values (Respect, Excellence, Accountability, Compassion, Honor).
- Regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.
Location
- Vassar Brothers Medical Center
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Entry Level
- 3 months experience
Education Level
- High school diploma or GED
- BLS certification required within 90 days
Salary/Compensations
- $20.35-23.50 Hourly
Benefits
- Two-state system benefits
About the Company
- Nuvance Health is a healthcare system operating in a two-state region.
- Vassar Brothers Medical Center is part of Nuvance Health.
