Patient Care Assistant- CPCU

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare (TMH) is a private nonprofit community-based healthcare system that provides care to a 22-county region in North Florida and South Georgia. We are a career destination with over 6000 colleagues who reflect the diversity of our community.

TMH is the regions healthcare leader and top provider of advanced care with a 772-bed acute care hospital and the regions only:

• Level II Trauma Center
• Primary Stroke Center
• Level III Neonatal Intensive Care
• Pediatric Intensive Care
• The most advanced cancer heart and vascular orthopedic & surgery programs in the Panhandle.

Our system also includes a psychiatric hospital multiple specialty care centers six residency programs and more than 50 affiliated physician practices.

Your Role:

Under direct supervision of a licensed nurse the Patient Care Assistant performs a variety of routine duties involving:

• Care of medically ill acute or sub-acute patients.
• Performs direct patient care.
• Observes and reports changes in the behavior and physical status of patients.
• Provides a clean and safe environment.

Additional Responsabilities of a Patient Care Assistant are:

• Assisting with activities of daily living (bathing dressing grooming shaving oral and denture care skin and nail care bed making and maintaining a clean environment.).
• Promoting and maintaining mobility (ambulating transferring transporting turning positioning lifting and performing range of motion exercises).
• Assisting with nutrition and hydration (feeding and assisting patients with eating and drinking).
• Assisting with toileting and elimination (assisting with the use of bedpan/urinal/bedside commode providing catheter care and care of the incontinent patient).
• Performs data gathering and recognizes abnormal findings (measures and records vital signs weight oral intake output including urine emesis and stool).

NOTE: Orientationrequiresyour availability to completeClinical Orientation on your first fullweek (Monday-Friday from 8am-5pm).

Reports To:

• Registered Nurse (RN)/Nurse Manager JC 031001 and/or RN/Assistant Nurse Manager JC 030303

Supervises:

• None

Required Education:

• None

Required Experience:

• None
  • NOTE: Minimum experience for float pool assignments is six (6) months.

Preferred Experience:

• One (1) year of job-related experience preferred.

Required Certification/License/Registry:

• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
  • NOTE: BLS certification is required prior to performing patient care. Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) may provide the opportunity for BLS certification training on-site as part of clinical orientation (as needed).

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare is an equal opportunity employer and drug-free workplace. All employment is contingent upon successful completion of a drug screen background check reference verification health assessment and credential/license verification.