Where compassion meets innovation and technology and our employees are family.
Thank you for your interest in joining our team! Please review the job information below.
GENERAL PURPOSE OF JOB:
To provide general clerical, equipment and patient care support to patient care units.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; employees will perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and/or hospital administration as required.
• Maintains utmost level of confidentiality at all times.
• Adheres to hospital policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines.
• Clerical duties: respond to communication devices such as phone/vocera/call bells, able to complete basic entries into the electronic medical record; records patient data in EMR, transcribes written orders
• Room/Patient care/Equipment management: stocks supplies, checks for expiration dates, orders supplies, cleans equipment, cleans toys
• Infectious material exposure: transports blood borne pathogen or other patient specimens, picks up blood from blood bank and delivers to the unit; sprays surgical instruments with enzymatic cleanser and prepares/transports them for processing, packages or moves infectious waste containers for disposal; may provide in rooms support for patients on airborne precautions
• Patient care support: measures, records and empties urine collection devices, empties bedpans/commodes, reinforces established education material or room orientation with patients/families; transports patients (no IV or Oxygen) off unit for tests/procedures, discontinues Peripheral IV’s, obtains Point of Care specimens and urine, wound, stool throat and nasal specimens.
Patients at risk for self-harm or harm to others: performs room safety check, performs non-clinical patient assistant in addition can perform 1:1 supervision for at risk patients including patients in restraints (not hard restraints)basic data collection and documentation.
EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:
⎯ Graduate from a Nurse Aide School
CERTIFICATES, LICENSURE, REGISTRATION:
• Nurse Aide Certification
• American Heart Association – Basic Life Support (BLS) obtained within prior to hire and maintained continuously thereafter.
• Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NCI) within 6 months of hire and maintained continuously thereafter
What We Do
We provide the absolute best pediatric care in South Texas, where care and community come together. Together, we heal
