Patient Care Associate, Telemetry

Baptist Health

Job Details

• Department: Telemetry
• Shift: Night
• Working Hours: 1830 - 0700

About the Role

A Patient Care Associate serves as a technical assistant to nursing on the unit. Their primary function is to assist with basic patient care, monitoring, hygiene, and to help ensure care is complete. The nursing assistant works as part of the nursing team on a unit and throughout the hospital to ensure that each and every patient and guest to the hospital has their needs met, whether that need is physical, spiritual or educational.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist with basic patient care.
• Assist with patient monitoring.
• Assist with patient hygiene.
• Ensure care is complete.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Ability to utilize Epic to chart and monitor tasks.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent.
• Ability to read, write, understand, and follow instructions.
• Basic addition and subtraction skills.
• Verbal skills to effectively relate to patients, visitors, staff, and physicians.
• Must complete 12 hours of college credit to promote to next level.
• This job will be authorized 72.00 hours bi-weekly.