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About the Role

The Patient Care Assistant (PCA) will work under the direction of the Registered Nurse, collecting patient data, performing personal care, and assisting with patient needs to promote progress toward discharge.

Responsibilities

• Collect patient data, including vital signs, height and weight, blood glucose, and food and fluid intake and output.
• Collect specimens such as urine, sputum, and stool, and transport as necessary.
• Report abnormal findings to the RN and patient care team.
• Participate in care planning and the nursing report process.
• Incorporate patient/family rights to participate in decision making about their care.
• Utilize standardized techniques for keeping patients and families informed.
• Provide personal care to patients including bathing, oral care, and skin care.
• Assist the patient with eating and hydration, grooming, dressing, and toileting.
• Incorporate safe patient handling into basic restorative care such as ambulation, range of motion, positioning, alignment, and use of assistive and prosthetic devices.
• Employ strategies to promote a clean, orderly, and safe environment.
• Demonstrate standard and transmission-based precautions and infection control techniques.
• Transport patients via stretcher, wheelchair, bed, isolette, crib, or escorts to various areas within the Hospital.
• Transport equipment, supplies, patient belongings, pharmaceuticals and specimens to and from other departments, as requested.
• Assist with ordering supplies and equipment; maintain designated par levels of supplies in collaboration with Materiel Coordinators.
• Provide 1:1 patient observation as assigned.
• Provide details related to patient progress toward the achievement of goals and outcomes to the RN.
• Receive report of critical laboratory values and relay to the RN in a timely manner.
• Document all care in the patient record.
• Support a system that encourages the identification and analysis of errors and near misses in the context of a safety culture.
• Participate in departmental safety inspections to assure compliance with hospital safety standards as assigned.
• Be aware of and compliant with all hospital and regulatory agency safety goals and objectives as well as limitations of unlicensed assistive care.
• Contribute to the creation of a compassionate and caring environment for patients, families and colleagues.
• Demonstrate excellence in daily work and participate in performance and quality improvement activities.
• Exhibit positive service excellence skills to patients, visitors and coworkers.
• Demonstrate effective teamwork by interacting in a positive manner with colleagues and creating a collaborative work environment.
• Contribute to a safe and secure environment for patients, visitors, colleagues by following established procedures and protocols.
• Demonstrate stewardship by thoughtful and responsible use of resources.
• Demonstrate respect for individual differences of each person.
• Perform point of care testing such as whole blood glucose.
• Turn & position and/or mobilize patients.
• Assist with caring for the needs of assigned patients with a focus on progress toward discharge, including during transitions within the acute care stay.
• Promote the availability of resources for patient care through collaboration with Materiel’s Coordinators for use, stocking, and storage of supplies.
• Participate in the creation and maintenance of a clean, orderly, and safe environment of care.
• Provide assistance with patients requiring 1:1 observation.

Requirements

• Access to information is based on a “need to know” and is the minimum necessary to properly perform assigned duties.
• Use or disclosure shall not exceed the minimum amount of information needed to accomplish an intended purpose.
• Reasonable efforts, consistent with Albany Med Health System policies and standards, shall be made to ensure that information is adequately protected from unauthorized access and modification.

Skills

• Active listening
• Kindness
• Service excellence
• Teamwork
• Open communication
• Positive intent
• Assistance offering
• Safety awareness
• Stewardship
• Respect for individual differences
• Compassionate care

Location

• Night (United States of America)

Work Type

• Full-time

Salary/Compensations

• $41,923.00 - $54,500.00

About the Company

• Albany Med Health System is an equal opportunity employer.
• This role may require access to information considered sensitive to Albany Med Health System, its patients, affiliates, and partners, including but not limited to HIPAA Protected Health Information and other information regulated by Federal and New York State statutes.

Equal Opportunity

• Albany Med Health System is an equal opportunity employer.