Patient Care Assistant Ii Telemetry - East Norriton, United States - Suburban Community Hospital
Description
Overview:
At Suburban Community Hospital, our dedicated team of professionals is committed to our core values of quality, compassion, and community.
Suburban Community Hospital, a not-for-profit hospital, is part of Prime Healthcare's Pennsylvania Region.
Prime Healthcare Pennsylvania Region includes Roxborough Memorial Hospital in Philadelphia, Lower Bucks Hospital in Bucks County, and Suburban Community Hospital in Montgomery County.
Prime's hospitals in Pennsylvania are certified by The Joint Commission as Primary Stroke Centers and have won multiple awards through Healthgrades and the Get With The Guidelines Quality Achievement Awards though the American Heart Association.
Our hospitals offer medical, surgical, and emergency care, which includes diagnostic radiology, lab services, behavior health, heart care, rehabilitation, family medicine, wound care, and residency programs.
Responsibilities:
The Patient Care Assistant II (PCA II) is an unlicensed person who performs indirect care in the department setting. The PCA II is responsible to monitor cardiac rhythms via direct cardiac monitor.
May assists patients with activities of daily living, provides basic nursing care to all patients and assists in maintenance of a safe environment under the direction and supervision of the RN and within the scope of the Patient Care Assistant I (PCA I) job description as long as the activity does not distract from primary responsibility for dysrhythmia monitoring.
Qualifications:
Education and Work Experience
- High School Diploma or equivalent.
- Current Dysrhythmia Interpretation Certificate upon hire and maintain current.
- Current BLS certificate upon hire and maintain current
- Six months previous experience as Monitor Technician preferred.
- Current Phlebotomy certification upon hire, preferred.
- Current EKG certification upon hire, preferred.
- Possesses knowledge of Medical Terminology.
- Minimum six months previous experience in an acute care hospital or physicians office preferred.
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