PCT Float job - Terre Haute Regional Hospital - Terre Haute, IN
Position responsibilities: · Assists with admission of patient including orientation to the environment · Cares for patient’s belongings according to hospital procedure, i.e. artificial appliances and prosthesis, glasses, hearing aides and dentures, and valuables · Provides individualized care responsive to needs of patients, families and physicians · Takes and reports vital signs under proper supervision · Assists with discharge of patient; helps patient recover all personal belongings, accompanies patient to automobile · Bathing; routine bed baths, showers, therapeutic baths, Sitz baths, pre-operative bath, shampoo and facial shave · Sponges patient for temperature control as needed · Gives am care and pm care · Makes beds; occupied, open, closed, and surgical · Feeding; prepare patient for meals, passes and picks up trays, assists patients as necessary, passes nourishment’s and ice water · Assists with patient hygiene; oral hygiene, perineal care, skin care, decubitus care, shampoo and nail care · Assists with preparation of patient for surgery, diagnostic tests, therapy · Assists with exercise prescribed for patient; dangle, range of motion, turning, transfer from bed to chair or stretcher, ambulate, crutch walking, walkers. Knows correct body mechanics for both the patient and self · Collects specimens for Laboratory; urine, feces, sputum · Performs and reports Accu-chek as ordered · Gives and removes bedpans and urinals, records I/O · Provides for patient’s comfort and safety. Displays knowledge of fall protocol, electrical safety, footboards, fracture boards, bed alarm · Gives treatments after instruction by and under the supervision of professional nurses; i.e., enemas, ace bandages, ice caps, and bags, aquamatic pool, TED hose, hot and cold non-sterile compresses, rectal tubes, external catheters, binders. Assists with colostomy care and Foley care · Cares for patient receiving respiratory therapy; and O2 by cannula or mask · Assist patient with incentive spirometry after initial teaching has been completed · Cares for patient requiring isolation according to hospital procedure · Observes and reports, untoward symptoms such as cyanosis, dyspnea, rash, character of feces, urine and vomit, accidents, complaints, and requests · Contributes relevant and appropriate information to RN for daily revision of plan of care, periodic planning and discharge conferences. Reinforces compliance with RN teaching and plan of care · Participates in report process to plan patient care for oncoming shift · Maintains patients’ privacy; uses bedside curtains, drapes patient, keeps confidential details of patient’s hospitalization · Receives and sends messages; answers patients’ call lights promptly, answers telephone giving name unit and position, relays message to professional nurse · Maintains cleanliness and order on nursing unit; cares for all equipment on unit, linen, clean supply room, kitchen and utility rooms · Maintains supply levels and stock using POU at all times · Maintains conditions of occupied patient rooms, including wiping of spills, picking up clutter, emptying trash receptacles · Cleans rolling stock such as wheelchairs, gurneys, IV poles. Places dirty equipment in soiled utility room for CSS to properly clean · Strips beds and clears patient care rooms at time of discharge; prepares for new admissions · Charts accurately and completely observations and procedures rendered to patients · Assists nursing staff with the care of body after death · Attends unit conferences, in-service education classes and department meetings · Assists with orientation of new Patient Care Technicians · Performs efficiently with CPCS/Healthstream/E-Resources. Maintains ongoing training and proficiency with CPCS · Floats to other units as needed · Performs other duties as assigned to meet the needs of the department · Attend Code of Conduct training course annually · Demonstrate an understanding of and adherence to HCA’s Code of Conduct · Demonstrates conduct that is reflective of THRH’s commitment to HCA’s Code of Conduct · Understands and satisfies the needs of the patient population appropriate to the age of the patient served (adults, geriatric, adolescent, pediatric, and parents of neonates)
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