Birthcare Assistant (24 Hours Per Week)

The purpose of the BirthCare Assistant is to assist the nursing and medical staff with day-to-day operations of the BirthCare Center. They market the BirthCare Center through their efficiency, positive communication, and contribution to the family-centered care experience.

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• Benefits – Our competitive Total Rewards program offers benefits options like 401K match, paid time off and education assistance that align with your needs and priorities, no matter what life stage you’re in.
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• Development – We believe equipping you with support and development opportunities is an essential part of delivering a remarkable employment experience.
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Receptionist

• Directs nursing and medical staff concerns to the appropriate Supervisor.
• Relays messages accurately and timely.
• Maintains friendly and courteous interpersonal communication patterns.
• Respects patient confidentiality in all communication.
• Answers the phone promptly and courteously.
• Maintains patient/nurse data in the Composer nurse call system and updates information every shift; answers nurse call promptly and courteously.

Clerical Duties

• Places the CIMS patient charge cards in the supply room.
• Accurately and thoroughly develops and maintains the daily worksheets, which is the primary data sheet used by nursing and physicians for the unit’s operations.
• Assembles medical record for scheduled Cesarean patients. This includes applying patient ID stickers, completing the infant ID bands, and inserting the correct chart pieces.
• Performs order entry in CareCast for all physician orders.
• Notifies infant’s physician that the birth has occurred.
• Assembles the medical record for every newborn admitted in the normal nursery.
• Reassembles the mother’s medical record for the postpartum period. This includes the addition of the postpartum routine orders.

Labor and Delivery assistance

• Assembles the equipment needed for a birth in the LDRP.
• Practices sterile technique in setting up the delivery carts.
• Pages personnel needed to attend the delivery.
• Assures that emergency equipment (oxygen, PPE, suction, IV supplies, and resuscitation equipment) is present and in working order for all patient rooms.
• Participates in the LDRP room turn around to transform birthing room into the postpartum room according to turn around policy.
• Notes times of significant events to aid the RN in documentation.
• Completes baby ID band information.
• Serves as backup personnel for low risk deliveries.
• Follows guidelines for handling blood and body fluids when disassembling the delivery cart.
• Helps position the patient for birth.
• Follows guidelines for placenta disposal/specimen retrieval and takes specimen to the lab.

BirthCare Center Floor Supplies and Equipment

• Checks supplies for outdates.
• Checks the LDRP rooms daily, including refrigerator temps, and maintains a clean, tidy environment for the family.
• Is responsible for stocking and rotating unit supplies.
• Rotates large equipment (fetal monitors, LDRP beds, infant warmer arms) from room to room as part of setting up birthing rooms for delivery and transforming them to postpartum care.
• Performs control testing on the Point of Care testing equipment.

Nursery assistance

• Is responsible for maintaining infant security per unit policy, including participating in weekly door checks and periodic safety drills.
• Assists nursing staff in observation and care of the infants in the newborn nursery.
• Performs basic infant care including feeding, diaper changes, bathing.
• Assists in the collection of specimens.
• Transports infants to the main hospital for tests, and to the patient’s rooms.
• Assists with circumcisions under the supervision of the nursery RN.

Triage assistance

• Perform admission procedures, (applies ID bands, prints face sheet and stickers).
• Performs preliminary screening of the patient including obtaining urine sample, vital signs and weight.
• Performs data entry of patient’s information into the WatchChild system.
• Provides ongoing comfort measures for the triage patients and their families.
• Greets the patients/families and escorts them to the triage room.
• Communicates patient’s data to charge nurse.
• Performs point of care testing.

Patient Care

• Performs car seat checks.
• Ambulates patients.
• Performs vital signs assessments on the adults.
• Escorts families who are being discharged.
• Performs duties to keep patient’s environment clean and orderly.
• Assists patient in obtaining meals and snacks as needed.
• Medications – May assist in transporting medications that are not controlled substances

Operating Room assistance

• Opens the sterile packs
• Assists the circulating RN in inserting the foley, positioning the patient for surgery and paging the personnel for the case.
• Assists the circulating RN in positioning and supporting the patient during regional anesthesia administration.
• Use of usual and customary equipment used to perform essential functions of the position.
• Maintain current BLS certification
• In the recovery room, performs infant warmer clean up and restocking for the next case.
• Adds additional supplies to the sterile field that are needed for the case and the individual physician.
• Is accountable for obtaining additional equipment needed during the case.
• After the cased, performs appropriate tear down, clean up and preparation of the OR for the next case.
• Assists the surgeons in tying sterile gown.
• Assists circulator in correcting any breaks in the sterile field.
• Using sterile technique, prepare the operating room for a case.
• Be able to complete a basic computer course on the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) through in-hospital training
• Assists the cirulator in noting times for documentation.
• Writes, reads, speaks, and comprehends fluent English