Patient Safety Assistant - FLEX

Patient Safety Assistant - FLEX - PT .6 NIGHTS

Job Category: Service

Requisition Number: PATIE
003099

Type: Part-Time;
On-site;
Hourly Rate: $16.28 to $23.88

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Required: Good communication skills both verbally and written; complete necessary patient documentation; willing to work varied hours and some weekends; maintain and enforce strict patient confidentiality and respect patient and family rights; and willingness to take additional courses as requested.

Typical Physical/Mental Demands: Must be physically able to frequently stoop, bend, reach, and lift 50 pounds or more. Varied activities most frequently sitting without falling asleep. Must remain calm under stressful situations. Follow universal precautions for infection control; maintain knowledge and practice of safe body mechanics.

• Maintains patient safety from self and environment.
• Completes skill check list and completes age‑appropriate competencies per policy and procedures.
• Assists patient with meals, feeding and ambulating; activities of daily living per instructions from RN.
• Maintains effective communication: documentation of behavior observations, reports to RN, gives clear simple directions, uses verbal de‑escalation techniques, follows RN directions for safety.
• Monitoring skills: recognizes and reports abnormal observations; monitors and adjusts environment; knows fire plan; demonstrates competence by ongoing testing.
• Provides patient care and performs tasks using job skills; assesses physical needs and functional status.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required:

CPR Hands Only

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