PATIENT COMPANION in Middleburg Heights OH - Southwest General Career Site
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PATIENT COMPANION Middleburg Heights, OH Southwest General Health Center
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES PRN Nights Nights 300 PM-1100 PM Nursing Support
Patient Services Req 172572 Apply Now Save Job Saved Summary
PATIENT TRANSPORT - PATIENT COMPANION SITTER ASSOCIATE
POSITION SUMMARY
Responsible for constant basic behavior observation and assistance for non-clinical patient care safety and services under the direction of nursing personnel.
Responsibilities:
• Utilizes specialized knowledge, training, and skill to perform job requirements. • Provides constant basic behavior observation and non-clinical patient care services. • Non-clinical patient care services can include duties such as feeding, grooming, and transporting patients. • Positioning and transferring can be provided with nursing assistance. • Bathing and toileting services are not provided.
Monitors patient condition and situations that may require nursing attention or intervention. Provides routine patient status updates and written reports to nursing personnel and ABM Healthcare Support Services management.
Ensures patient safety, including those in restraints, while meeting standards outlined by The Joint Commission (TJC), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), ABM Healthcare Support Services, and the Hospital.
Maintains patient confidentiality as outlined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
Remains with patients at all times unless relieved by authorized hospital personnel.
Utilize verbal persuasion techniques to have the patients remain calm and in bed and/or the hospital room. Contact nursing personnel immediately if the patients condition changes or unruly behavior cannot be resolved after utilizing de-escalating behavioral techniques.
Fully vigilant to the patients behavior and condition and not permitted to be distracted from the patient at any time. This includes reading personal information, watching television, talking on cell phones, etc. Follows all established ABM Healthcare Support Services and Hospital policies, procedures, objectives, quality assurance, safety, and environmental and infection control standards.
Requires lifting and transferring of patients to/from wheelchairs, stretchers, and/or beds.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
• High school graduate or equivalent required.
Required length of experience:
• Previous hospital experience preferred.
Required licensure, certification, and/or registry:
• None
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