Location: Birmingham,AL, USA
Summary of Duties
Provides activities of daily living and other specified patient care procedures for the adult and geriatric patient.
Essential Job Functions
* Provides for patient's activities of daily living with either total or partial assistance as directed by patient condition:
* Bath or shower
* Oral and/or denture care
* Perineal care
* Turning and repositioning every two hours or greater as indicated by patient need
* Ambulation
* Meal Assistance
* Performs indirect patient care tasks and unit functions: including but not limited to:
* Answers call lights and relays information promptly to the nurses
* Runs errands to obtain medications, supplies, etc.
* Transports specimens
* Inventories supplies; compiles list of needed supplies
* Stocks supplies and patient meds when delivered to facility
* Discharge preparation (packing personal items, transports patient, etc.)
* Cleans and maintains unit and patient equipment
* Assists patients with elimination needs
* Performs simple range of motion
* Performs finger stick blood glucose test
* Performs intake and output measurements (oral, IV, NG, drains, etc.)
* Performs vital sign measurements
* Obtains 12 lead EKGs
* Assists physicians and nurses with special procedures
* Assists with stocking of supplies and assesses inventory needs for medical and general supplies in coordination with the Administrative Secretary/ Materiels Management Coordinator and/or other management staff, and following hospital purchasing protocols
* Cleans and stores dirty hospital equipment for future patient use
* Performs other duties as assigned
Education
High school diploma or GED equivalent required.
Experience
Minimum of one year of patient care experience required.
Physical Requirements for Essential Job Functions
* Ability to lift 50 lbs. occasionally, 20 lbs. frequently, and 10 lbs. constantly.
* Ability to walk and stand 80% of an 8 to 12 hour shift.
* Ability to push/pull up to 200 lbs. in order to position patients, move beds, carts, etc., and aid patients in ambulation.
* Must possess sight/hearing senses or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately, so that the requirements of this position can be fully met.