CNA/PCA - Surgical and Surgical Step-down
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Qualifications
- Skills and Abilities
- Essential Technical/Motor Skills
- Fine motor skills required, eye\hand coordination, answer phone, data entry.
- Interpersonal Skills
- Displays a friendly, positive attitude and communicates with patients, families, physicians and co-workers in a professional manner.
- Essential Physical Requirements
- Must walk, move, kneel, crouch, stoop, reach, stand, push, pull, and lift. Must follow good body mechanics.
- Essential Mental Abilities
- Ability to collect thorough information regarding patient's condition and evaluate effects of care; must be able to visually inspect patient's condition.
- Problem solves, manipulate numbers, adaptability, interpret data, calculate, comprehend, understand, explain, assess, evaluate short term and long term memory.
- Essential Sensory Requirements
- Visual, hearing, feeling, smell, speak.
- Exposure to Hazards
- Needles, cuts, back injury, chemotherapy, and body fluids, blood, punctures, and scratches, physical injury from combative patients, radiation exposure, blood products, and road and weather hazards when driving required.
- Infection/disease exposure from patients, visitors, and co-workers.
- Other Skills and Abilities
Responsibilities
- Completes daily Activities of Daily Living to meet patient’s needs i.e. personal hygiene, dressing patients, linen change.
- Feeding patients as indicated; Records food and fluid intake and output when appropriate.
- Takes and records vital signs including pulse oximetry.
- Transports patients as appropriate.
- Lifts, turns, repositions and ambulates patients, alone or with assistance.
- Collects and transports urine, stool and sputum samples for testing when assigned; completes Point of Care testing.
- Observes and reports changes in patient’s condition to nurse.
- Other duties as assigned
- Education
- H.S. Diploma - Required
- PCA education requirements - Required
- Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP) training program in the last three years (excluding Albany caregivers) OR
- A fundamentals of nursing course OR
- A certified nursing assistant program with obtainment of certification (C.N.A.) OR
- A graduate of a professional or practical nursing program who did not pass the state licensure examination in the past three years OR
- A graduate of a professional or practical nursing program outside the United States and awaiting licensure in this country
- Work Experience
- St. Joe and Maryville: In lieu of PCA education requirements, documented experience as a nurse assistant, emergency medical technician, or surgical technician in the past three (3) years - Required
- In Home Health, 6 months of Hospital/Nursing Home experience - Preferred
- Licenses and Certifications
- Basic Life Support (BLS) - Required within 90 Days
- CPI: Nonviolent Crisis Intervention - Required within 90 Days
- Any other required training by the organization - Required within 90 Days
- Travel Requirements
- Must be able to travel between various system facilities and off-site locations as needed. - Required
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