Patient Care Assistant Orthopedics

Tenet Healthcare

(Fountain Valley, California)
Full Time Evenings
Job Posting Details
About Tenet Healthcare

Tenet is committed to providing a culture that values the contributions of talented people who bring unique qualities to the workplace.

Responsibilities
  • 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.
Ideal Candidate
  • 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.

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Fountain Valley, California
Skills Desired
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  • Computer
  • Equipment
  • Intake
  • Inventory
  • Patient Care
  • Personal Hygiene
  • Reports
  • Surgical
  • Treatment
  • Nursing
  • Order Entry
  • Media
  • Operative
  • Nursing Care

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