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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, but not limited to: cleans treatment rooms, showers, commodes and IV poles after use; cleans kitchens (refrigerators, ice machines, sinks, counters) as assigned; cleans counters and empties trash in nursing station as requested; cleans other areas such as storage areas, linen rooms, staff lounge as requested.
• 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)
• AHA BLS provider certification course required within 90 days from 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)
• General knowledge of high school subject matter including sciences, simple medical procedures / terminology, and office equipment.
• BLS certification is required 90 days’ from date of hire.
• Manual: significant manual skills/motor coord & finger dexterity
• Occupational: Some occupational risk
• Physical Effort: Very Heavy effort. May exert up to 50 lbs. force
• Physical Environment: Significant exposure to dirt, odors, noise, human waste, etc.

Skills

• Patient care
• Admissions
• Transfers
• Discharges
• Patient transport
• Vital signs monitoring
• Blood glucose testing
• Oral suctioning
• Enemas
• Dressing changes
• Tube feeding setup
• External catheter care
• Post-mortem care
• Suction canister setup
• Effective communication
• Electronic documentation
• Legible documentation
• Standardized abbreviations
• Patient reporting
• Walking rounds
• Personalized patient care
• Infection control
• Safety policies
• Two-identifier patient identification
• Unit cleanliness
• REACH Values (Respect, Excellence, Accountability, Compassion, Honor)

Location

• Vassar Brothers Medical Center

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Entry Level
• 3 months experience

Education Level

• High school diploma or GED
• Associate's degree (in progress)
• Bachelor's degree (in progress)

Salary/Compensations

• $20.35-23.50 Hourly

Benefits

• Inclusive culture
• Welcoming environment
• Respectful environment
• Supportive environment

About the Company

• Nuvance Health is a two-state system.
• Vassar Brothers Medical Center is part of Nuvance Health.