Patient Care Assistant (Pca) - Multitrauma Telemetry

Company Description

THE MEDICAL HEART OF MARYLAND

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Treating over 330,000 patients every year, the University of Maryland Medical Center is at the vital core of Maryland’s health care system and community. We’re known for our prestigious expertise in innovative research and education, along with the talented staff and advanced centers that make it all possible. The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, the world’s first center dedicated to trauma, treats more than 7,500 critically injured patients a year with an incredible 97 percent survival rate. We also have one of the nation’s largest kidney and pancreas transplant programs at The Joseph and Corinne Schwartz Division of Transplantation, home to Maryland’s first steroid-free protocol and pancreas/kidney transplant. From our National Cancer Institute-designated UM Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center to The University of Maryland’s Children’s Hospital, one of the largest pediatric centers in the state, we are dedicated to saving and transforming lives.

General Summary

• Under the direct supervision of a registered nurse, performs delegated patient care functions of an uncomplicated nature. Uses the nursing care plan in providing care. Fulfillment of the job duties requires the employee to have access to medication storage areas.

Multi Trauma Telemetry is one of 14 units in the world renowned R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. Multi Trauma Telemetry is a 12 bed Acute Care/Telemetry unit that provides high quality care to medically-complex trauma patients. As a specialty focused unit, Multi Trauma telemetry provides staff with the unique opportunity to treat clinically stable trauma patients and provide ongoing education to patients and their families. Patients on Multi Trauma telemetry require frequent monitoring and high-level nursing interventions. Most patients on this unit are on continuous telemetry and/or pulse oximetry monitoring. Multi Trauma Telemetry offers experience with cardiac monitoring, detailed assessments, post-operative wound/ dressing care, drain care, medication management, tube feeding, tracheostomy care, and in-depth collaborative patient care planning. Staff on this unit are empowered and highly encouraged to drive change on the unit, as well as within the organization through evidence-based practice and continued engagement within the organizational shared governance model. Multi Trauma Telemetry offers consistent opportunity for continued growth and development, both professionally and clinically.
Patients on this unit are admitted with a variety of diagnoses and/or mechanisms of injury, providing vast learning opportunities.
Qualifications
Education and Experience

• Nursing Assistant Certification required.
• High School Diploma or equivalent (GED).
• Six months of prior direct, patient care work experience in a health care facility is preferred.
• Successful completion of a nursing assistant’s program, or equivalent work experience as a nursing assistant.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Knowledge of basic patient care skills, such as bathing, taking and recording vital signs, feeding, and weighing patients.
• Demonstrated knowledge of universal blood and body fluids precautions and aseptic technique.
• Demonstrates sensitivity and awareness to the needs of patients, visitors and co-workers and responds promptly to verbal and/or written instructions
• Ability to learn and perform CPR procedures.
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the patient populations(s) served. Ability to demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s requirements relative to his or her population-specific and age specific needs.
• Highly effective verbal communication and interpersonal skills with patients, visitors, and other healthcare team members to establish working relationships that foster optimal quality of patient care.

Additional Information
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