Patient Care Assistant/Unit Coordinator, Jewish, Transplant, 7p-7a Job at UofL Health, Louisville, KY

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  • UofL Health
  • Louisville, KY

Job Description

Job Description

Address

200 Abraham Flexner Way Louisville, KY 40202

Shift

Nights 7P - 7A (United States of America)

Job Description Summary

The Patient Care Assistant/Unit Coordinator performs clerical duties and clinical patient care support on the unit under the direction of the Licensed Nursing Personnel. They utilize proper and professional communication skills with department and UofL Health personnel, as well as with patients, families, and visitors. All duties will be provided in a caring, safe, and efficient manner, under the direction of licensed nursing personnel and while adhering to the values of patient and family centered care.

Job Description

Essential Functions:

  • Transcribes and computes physician orders, department orders and messages accurately. Writes legibly and transcribes orders accurately
  • Assembles patient medical records and maintains proper order of records within the chart
  • Sets up admission charts and disassembles discharged and transferred charts, checking for completeness
  • Handles desk communications properly and promptly, including responding immediately to intercom, pages and routing of messages to appropriate person
  • Replaces forms as necessary in patient medical records
  • Routes requests for patient information to nurse promptly and accurately
  • Communicates physician orders to responsible nurse.
  • Collects required unit data
  • Measures and documents intake and output, heights and weights, and vital signs
  • Applies, monitors, and documents restraint usage
  • Collects urine, stool, and sputum specimens
  • Performs and documents point-of-care testing
  • Performs and documents patient mobility and exercise, and comfort, rest, and sleep care needs
  • Performs and documents patient hygiene, grooming, and dressing, skin and nail care, dietary, and toileting and elimination needs

Other Functions

  • Organizes equipment and supplies
  • Completes bedmaking and cleaning assignments on the unit
  • Performs and documents perineal care, and applies unsterile hot/cold packs/compresses, bandages, and elastic stockings
  • Safely and correctly operates equipment (i.e. beds, wheelchairs, stretchers, hypo/hyperthermia unit, mechanical lifts, bed scales)
  • Presents a pleasant, courteous, effective manner with telephone conversations and interactions with others
  • Orders stock; maintains and enters charged items at the end of the shift according to procedure
  • Orients new personnel in desk orientation
  • Assists with admitting, physical examination, transferring, and discharging patients
  • Transports patients, lab work, specimens, and blood
  • Adheres to Universal precaution, infection control, OSHA, and other regulatory policies and procedures. Maintains safe work practices and follows facility safety procedures
  • Maintains compliance with all company policies, procedures and standards of conduct
  • Complies with HIPAA privacy and security requirements to maintain confidentiality at all times
  • Performs other duties as assigned

Job Tags

Immediate start, Shift work, Night shift,

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