Patient Care Assistant Orthopedics

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• Assists staff nurse and/or LVN in treatment procedures.
• Helps prepare Unit, patient's room and bed for receiving patient admission, returning surgical patient, transfer or emergency situation.
• Provides morning care (bed, bathes, changes bed linen, dresses patient) and evening care (back rubs, freshens bed linen, undresses patient), other personal hygiene and general care throughout the day.
• Accurately takes and records temperature pulse, blood pressure, respiration, weight and height.
• Measures and records intake and output and percent of meals eaten.
• Assists with pre-operative and post-operative care.
• Prepares patients for meals:
  • Distributes food trays
  • Assists or feeds patients
  • Removes food trays
  • Distributes drinking water and other nourishment
• Provides postmortem care and assists in transporting body to morgue.
• Makes rounds to assigned patients, anticipates patient's needs and answers/responds to patient call lights or paging.

PATIENTCARE RELATED ACTIVITES:

• Transports patients to and from various areas.
• Collects specimens and transports same to proper areas,
• Reports and records as necessary any change observed in condition or behavior of patient; contributes to nursing care plan.
• Cleans equipment and prepares it for disinfection.
• Receives inventories and stocks supplies as appropriate.
• Attends in-service education programs as assigned to learn new treatments,

Unit Secretary

• Acts as a focus of communication in the Nursing Station regarding patient care activities and locations. Provides information of same.
• Receives, greets and directs physicians, patients, visitors and hospital personnel arriving to or calling the Nursing Unit.
• Receives requests from physicians, patients, visitors and families and refers requests to appropriate Nursing staff.
• Answers telephone in a courteous and helpful manner.
• Calls physicians and ancillary departments as directed.
• Answers call lights within 3 rings at the desk and communicates patient requests to appropriate Nursing Staff.
• Maintains a clean, safe and functional working environment.
• Maintains adequate quantity of forms, materials, supplies and equipment inventory on assigned unit.
• 9 Maintains assignment, bulletin board, census board and other communication media.

PATIENT RECORD/CHART ACTIVITY

• Initiates, assembles and maintains charts in correct order for all patients. hospital and Unit policy.
• Transcribes physicians' orders; initiates all necessary forms, requisitions and communications necessary to implement orders including patient kardex and computer order entry.
• Files diagnostic and laboratory reports in appropriate, functional order as prescribed by
• Monitors location of charts at all times and prepares the transfer of medical records upon discharge or expiration of the patient.
• Assists with patient's transfer by assembling chart to accompany patient.
• Assists with preparation of chart for patients going to surgery by checking charts fort completeness.

• Minimum Education: High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Minimum Experience: Minimum of 2 years’ experience as nurse assistant.
• Preferred Skills and Abilities: Recent acute care experience as a nursing assistant and ward secretary. Basic knowledge of procedures and techniques involved in bedside patient care.