Patient Care Assistant

Position: PATIENT CARE ASSISTANT
Covenant Health -  - Responsibilities:
Take and record temperature, pulse, respiration rates, blood pressures, weights, heights, and intake-output measurements;
Encourage patients to turn, cough, and take deep breaths and to use incentive spirometry as specified by Plan of Care;
Ambulate, and assist patients in and out of bed, into wheelchairs and transport when necessary;
Attends to nutritional needs of patient which may include distributing meal trays, feeding, filling and passing out water pitchers;
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