Patient Care

• Work under the supervision of a licensed team member and/or provider
• Perform validated patient-care tasks including simple wound care, EKGs, peripheral INT removal, point-of-care testing, and extremity splinting
• Provide age-appropriate patient care according to departmental policies and procedures
• Promote and maintain a safe work environment for staff and customers
• Enter patient data into technology systems and the EMR, including rooming patients in the ambulatory practice setting
• Follow the plan of care and perform procedures such as vital signs, ice application, EKGs, blood draws, specimen collection, POCT testing, and splinting
• Complete clinical and quality documentation according to RHS standards and regulatory requirements
• Ensure availability of equipment, instruments, and supplies
• Maintain clean, safe, and orderly work and patient environments
• Assist with admitting, discharging, or transferring patients efficiently under direction of licensed team members and/or providers

Patient Care Assistant

• Provide safe, direct patient care with age-appropriate adjustments
• Monitor patient conditions and update the healthcare team
• Provide direct and indirect care for patients with and without medical/surgical complications
• Meet patients’ comfort, personal hygiene, and safety needs
• Deliver care according to nursing and medical plans of care and VCUHS policies and procedures
• Maintain a safe, clean, stocked clinical environment
• Maintain supplies, educational materials, equipment, sterilized supplies and instruments, and the care environment
• Accurately identify patients and observe safety goals
• Report patients’ physical and mental responses, incidents, or threats of harm to licensed practitioners, managers, and Registered Nurses
• Obtain and record admissions data, vital signs, height and weight, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, intake and output, calorie counts, and other patient information
• Obtain or assist with collecting specimens for diagnostic or waived tests
• Participate in hospital, department, or unit patient safety initiatives
• Establish courteous and effective rapport with patients, visitors, coworkers, and healthcare team members
• Perform other assigned duties
• Provide equitable, age-appropriate care to neonates, infants, children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients

Patient Care Tech – Acute Care Pediatrics

• Provide patient care under the direction of a professional RN nurse
• Support independent and dependent activities of daily living
• Perform vital signs, mobility and ambulation support
• Perform phlebotomy, point-of-care testing, and EKG testing
• Remove peripheral IVs
• Collect specimens
• Insert and remove Foley catheters
• Comply with patient safety practices
• Observe patients’ physical, mental, and emotional conditions
• Document in a timely and accurate manner
• Report patient condition changes to the nurse or medical staff

Patient Care Technician, Acute Care Cardiac

• Complete registration processes for new and current patients
• Perform patient check-in and check-out functions
• Collect co-pays
• Schedule appointments
• Request medical records
• Answer telephone calls
• Greet patients and visitors

Patient Care jobs in Virginia

Patient Care Assistant

Patient Care Tech – Acute Care Pediatrics

Patient Care Technician, Acute Care Cardiac

Patient Care Representative