Position Overview
Work with the medical staff and other healthcare professionals to provide direct patient care in a variety of health care settings.
Essential Job Functions
- Assist with patient treatments as directed by nursing and physician staff
- Assist with patient care planning and patient assessment
- Assist with recording of vital signs, height, and weight, input/output.
- Assist with patient nutritional needs-delivery of food trays, feeding as needed, additional nourishment
- Assist with patient mobility-turning and positioning, ambulation, and transferring to wheelchair as needed
- Assist with patient discharging
- Assist with patient ADL’S-including bathing, dressing, grooming.
- Assist with inventory-stocking needed supplies
- Assist with computer order entry as needed
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- High School Diploma or GED Required
- 0-2 years of related experience
- CNA required
- BLS certified
Other Skills/Abilities
- Use of interpersonal communication techniques.
- Requires standing, walking and running.
- Organization and time management without direct order.
- Requires pulling, lifting, turning and assisting patients.
- Present a professional, caring and courteous image.
- Knowledge of team building and dynamics.
Specialists Hospital Shreveport provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.