About this role
Overview
Under the direction of the nurse leader, provides assistance with clerical, non-clinical tasks. These tasks can include, but are not limited to, ensuring that the clinical areas are well-supplied and stocked, and the patient care area is clean and ready for patients. This position requires the ability to work in a fast paced, detailed environment with an emphasis on team work and prioritizing responsibilities. This individual may have direct access to drug products and secure medication areas (not to include controlled substance locations) in order to manage the storage, handling, and disposal of medications consistent with the Medication Storage and Handling Policy
Full-Time, 32 hours/week.
Responsibilities
- Greets patients and assist with the rooming of patients
- Prepares patient, room and equipment for procedures and exams
- Assists patients in completing questionnaires
- Maintains chart information that is up-to-date, organized, and in compliance with Health Information Services (HIS) requirements
- Participates in admission process for patients including room set up after EVS clean to ensure room is ready for the next patient
- Greets patient upon arrival and completes standard admission tasks
- Prepares patient, room and equipment for procedures and exams
- Participates in assisting the patient with readiness for discharge, gathering patient belongings, including items from pharmacy or the safe, assist patient with getting dressed
- Completes room strip down after discharge
- Returns medications to pharmacy return bin from medication cart
- Completes hourly rounding on all assigned patients for patient experience to include safety checks per unit standards utilizing a rounding script/checklist
- Delivers meal trays and set patients up to eat
- Sets patients up and assists patients with the completion of personal care and provides clean hospital gown and changes linens
- Performs patient sitting for patients requiring 1:1 observation after successful completion of required learning activities
- Assists with lifting, positioning, and dressing of patients
- Answers call lights and directs patient needs to appropriate resources
- Stocks equipment from central locations to nurse server as needed
Qualifications
- High school diploma (or GED) strongly preferred.
- The ability to function in a fast paced work environment with excellent organizational, customer service, and prioritization skills required.
- The ability to work collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team to provide high quality care to patients
Required Licensure/Certifications
- BLS within 30 days
Other facts
About Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire's only academic health system and the state's largest private employer, serves patients across northern New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as well as across its wide network of hospitals, clinics and care facilities. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes its Dartmouth Cancer Center, one of only 51 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; Dartmouth Health Children’s, including the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, the state’s only children’s hospital and clinic locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene and New London, NH, and Windsor, VT, and Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; and more than 24 clinics that provide ambulatory services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Dartmouth Health and its more than 13,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, personal care.
What you'll do
- The Patient Care Assistant provides assistance with clerical and non-clinical tasks to ensure the patient care area is well-supplied and clean. Responsibilities include maintaining equipment, assisting patients, and participating in safety and regulatory activities.
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