Patient Sitter

• Inpatient Float Pool
• PRN
• Any
• any

Sign-On Bonus: 0

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bedteachinghospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care.

Consistently ranked as bestin the Columbia Metroarea by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000babies each year, performs more than 34,000surgeries annually and isthe region's third largest employer.

Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first Heart

CARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center.

Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

Under the direction of the Float Nurse Manager/Clinical Supervisor/Unit Charge Nurse/professional nurse, the Sitter provides continuous observation and basic support with the activities of daily living for inpatients at risk for accidental or intentional self-harm due to suicidal thoughts, or those patients with signed commitment papers

• Minimum Education:
  
  High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Minimum Years of
  
  Experience:
  
  None
• Substitutable
  
  Education & Experience:
  
  None
• Required Certifications/Licensure:
  Certified Nursing Assistant (Or successful completion of nursing assistant training)
• Required Training:
  None

• Participates in Plan of Care interventions.
• Observes the patient at all times, even when in the bathroom.
• Calls for clinical assistance as needed if the patient’s actions put them at risk for harm.
• Remains in the room with the patient at all times.
• Maintains the patient’s door open at all times.
• Instructs family or visitors to check in at the nurse’s station before bringing any items into the room.
• Documents legibly on the nurses not every one-hour, 1:1 observation.
• Accompany the patient at all times, even for test and treatments.
• Reports to nurse changes in patient condition and observations relevant to patient’s needs.
• Obtains and records vital signs both manually and with electronic devices, and reports abnormal findings to nurse.
• Assists in the care of the patient receiving oxygen therapy by maintaining integrity of delivery source and reporting abnormal observations to nurse.
• Obtains and records patient’s weight (bed scales and/or standing scales and reports to nurse as directed.
• Encourages or limits PO intake as directed.
• Demonstrates ability to provide comfort measures in accordance with unit standards:
  • Changes linen and makes bed, organizes the patient’s environment, and performs other personalized services within prescribed limits.
  • Gives bed bath or assists patient with bathing, dressing, oral hygiene and other personal care. Shaves male patients as part of daily bath.
• Demonstrates ability to provide safety measures in accordance with unit standards:
  • Recognizes need for safety measures and takes appropriate action to prevent injury i.e., fall prevention, skin breakdown prevention, suicide precautions, aspiration precautions, bleeding precautions, seizure precautions and transmission-based precautions.
  • Follows policies and procedures for lifting/transfer.
  • Properly uses minimal lift equipment.
  • Follows appropriate infection control policies and procedures.
• Shares knowledge/expertise with co-workers and promotes a positive working environment.

• Accepts work assignments readily.
• Abides by LMC’s Code of Conduct.
• Demonstrates knowledge of area and organizational activities by attending or reading minutes of staff meetings, and other communications.
• Supports and participates actively in change processes/performance improvement activities by willingly adopting new methods.
• Functions as a role model for students and staff and displays positive problem solving behavior.
• Demonstrates timely communication…