Job Details

A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position.

Responsibilities

Observation/Monitoring

• Obtains vital signs, temperature, height/length, weight, oxygen saturation and pain scores; reports
  abnormal values to RN. Obtains other measurements (i.e., head circumference, abdominal girth) per
  unit standard.
• Responds to monitor alarms.
• Utilizes palpation/auscultation and Doppler to determine heart rate and blood pressure.
• Observes, monitors and reports the overt physical condition of assigned patient(s).
• Responds to physiologic monitor alarms based on unit training and competencies. Alarms should be
  silenced or paused prior to an activity that will trigger an alarm such as bathing, drawing blood or
  getting a patient out of bed as delegated by RN. 
• Ensures that alarms are on when activity is
  completed and/or before leaving the patient.
• Measures and records intake and output.
• Functions as a sitter.
• Assists physician/provider during diagnostic procedures; assists and supports patient before and
  during procedures; assists in specimen collection.
• Applies and changes ECG electrodes and pulse ox probe; attaches patient to travel (ECG and A-line)
  monitor.
• Places monitor strips on inpatient records.

Specimen Collection

• Performs point of care testing; maintains and calibrates equipment and supplies.
• Collects blood specimens from arterial, CVP and PIC lines.
• Collects specimens, including urine, stool, sputum and swabs, and performs urine determination
• including sugar, acetone, specific gravity protein, pH.
• Performs finger/heel stick blood collection and chemstick test.
• Initiates, maintains and records 24-hour urine collection.
• Transports blood and laboratory specimens.

Intravenous Lines

• Discontinues peripheral IVs.
• Removes peripheral IV dressings.
• Primes peripheral (without additives) and central/pressure heparin set-ups (after bag spiked by RN);
• times and dates bag/tubing per policy.

Patient ADLs

• Assists patients with, or administers routine personal hygiene including baths, oral care, skin care,
• umbilical cord and circumcision care.
• Performs preventative skin care, pre-operative preps, perineal care.
• Provides toileting/bedpan/urinal; remove/empty foley catheters; weighs diapers.
• Accompanies, escorts, ambulates, moves, turns, dangles, lifts, transports and attends/holds/positions
• patients.
• Assists with range of motion; applies rehabilitation equipment; releases and applies devices, i.e.
• wheelchair seatbelt, adaptive equipment, etc., in accordance with specific instructions, to position
• patients to limit movements.
• Provides patient nourishment by performing such duties as passing and collecting trays, providing
• snacks/beverages, assists with ordering meals/snacks; feeds patients.
• Double check breast milk with RN.

Tube Feedings

• Perform tube feedings of patients, at the direction of the RN, and after the RN has established
• placement just prior to each tube feeding (e.g. Change tube feeding bag, prime line and set rate after
• notifying RN, refill tube feeding bag as indicated per infection control guidelines and after verifying
• correct tube feeding to be administered).

Urinary Catheters

• Performs intermittent sterile urinary catheterizations.
• Performs clean urinary catheterizations (Pediatrics only-waiting for data).
• Connects, drains and disconnects urinary catheters.
• Assembles intermittent bladder irrigation supplies.
• Discontinues urinary c