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.