Patient Care Assistant - Surgery Unit

Full Time, 72 Hours Per Pay Period, Day Shift
At Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center we perform over 10,000 surgical procedures each year. The care a patient receives after surgery is just as important as the operation itself. For that reason, we send surgical patients to 3 North to receive exceptional care.
The Post-Surgical Unit (3 North) at Fort Sanders Regional is a 33 bed unit providing care for patients who have undergone general surgery and are recovering at our facility. We specialize in the treatment of the post-operative patient including those who have undergone colon re-sectioning, surgical oncology procedures on the neck, breast, and abdomen, vascular procedures and many more.
Our staff consists of RNs, LPNs, CNA/PCAs, and HUCs who work together to provide exceptional patient care. In addition to having excellent critical thinking skills, our ideal candidate will also possess outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
If you are passionate about putting patients first apply for our Post-Surgical unit today!
Position Summary
Functions as a direct patient caregiver performing tasks to assist registered nurses. Performs hands-on care, assistance with ADL’s and specified technical tasks for a group of patients under the supervision of the Team Leader.
Please contact Michelle for more information on this job or others you may be interested in! 865-374-5363 or [email protected]
Responsibilities

• Assists in maintaining a safe environment, which may include reporting equipment that is out of order, appropriate handling of linen and storing of supplies.
• Help to maintain clean and orderly patient and work environment.
• Gathers equipment for O2 set up. Checks O2 for connection and proper placement.
• Empty drains, canisters, urine bags, bedpans and emesis basins and record intake and output.
• Checks for proper functioning of equipment at patient bedside
• Encourage patients to turn, cough, and take deep breaths and to use incentive spirometry as specified by Plan of Care.
• Perform EKG (requires special training).
• Perform tasks such as ROM, assist with ambulatory devices as specified by the patients' plan of care.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements.
• Ambulate, and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs and transport when necessary.
• Empty & clean ostomy bag, per procedure.
• Follows policies, procedures, and safety standards. Completes required education assignments annually. Works toward achieving goals and objectives, and participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
• Employ all established infection control policies including standard precautions, transmission-based isolation precautions, OSHA standards, safety measures and proper body mechanics in performance of job.
• Set up suction equipment and check for proper function.
• Report significant changes in patients' condition to RN.
• Collect urine, stool and sputum specimen as ordered.
• Perform phlebotomy (requires additional training). To include correct labeling using two patient identifiers, maintenance of lab-draw supplies, rotating and restocking.
• Provides general care such as positioning, lifting or turning patients; assisting in use of bedpan, urinal or commode; preoperative supportive care; and application/removal of abdominal binders or anti-embolism stockings and sequential compression devices.
• Demonstrates knowledge and competency in providing for age-specific needs of the population served.
• Document/maintain patient record as appropriate.
• Promptly answer patient call lights and respond to patient requests.
• Provides morning or evening care, which may include bed bath, oral hygiene, combing hair, back care, dressing patient, changing bed linen, cleaning over-bed table and bedside stand, straightening room, and other supportive care as needed.
• Attends to nutritional needs of patient which may include distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers,
• Ambulate patients with oxygen.
• Demonstrates ability to perform skills on the Nursing Assistant checklist.

Qualifications
Minimum Education: None specified; will accept any combination of formal education and/or prior work experience sufficient to demonstrate possession of the knowledge, skill and ability needed to perform the essential tasks of the job, typically such as would be equivalent to a high school diploma or GED. Preference may be given to individuals possessing a HS diploma or GED.
Minimum Experience: None.
Licensure Requirement: CPR Required