Patient Care Assistant, PICU (FT, Nights)

About the Role

• Perform a variety of routine and specialized patient care activities under the direction and supervision of a Registered Nurse.
• Provide developmentally appropriate, family-centered care.
• Support a safe, efficient, and positive patient experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Obtain and document vital signs, body measurements, intake and output, and physiologic values, reporting abnormal findings to the Registered Nurse.
• Respond appropriately to continuous physiologic monitor alarms and communicate abnormal values to the Registered Nurse.
• Provide basic hygiene, comfort measures, activities of daily living, and other delegated patient care tasks.
• Collaborate with Registered Nurses to prioritize workload based on patient and family needs.
• Collect and label laboratory specimens and perform bedside testing, including quality-control activities.
• Prepare patient rooms for admissions with age-appropriate supplies and equipment.
• Provide input to the Registered Nurse regarding patient responses to care and assist with ongoing care-plan updates.
• Transport medications, excluding controlled substances, while following established medication-security guidelines.
• Perform unit-specific and clerical duties, including use of computer, telephone, intercom, and EKG-monitor systems, as assigned.
• Maintain patient and family confidentiality.
• Communicate effectively with patients, families, and health care team members.
• Participate in required training, professional development, unit goals, and performance-improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Completion of a formal nursing assistant, medical assistant, or similar clinical education program required.
• OR Current enrollment in a BSN program with one clinical rotation completed at time of hire required.
• OR One year of direct patient care experience required.

All successful candidates will be required to undergo respiratory fit testing.