Healthcare Support Specialist (Hiring Immediately)

Sign-On Bonus Available

Minimum Offer

$16.09 / hr.

Maximum Offer

$24.79 / hr.

Compensation Disclaimer

Compensation for this role is based on a number of factors, including but not limited to experience, education, and other business and organizational considerations.

Department : Neuroscience (5-S)

FTE : 0.90

Full Time

Shift : Days

Position Summary :

Provide basic patient care to include tube insertion, wound care and phlebotomy. Assist in planning, organizing, implementing and evaluating the activities occurring in the nursing station by performing clerical and receptionist duties and maintaining the physical environment of the area. Ensure adherence to Hospitals and departmental policies and procedures. Patient care assignment may include Neonate, Pediatric, Adolescent, Adult and Geriatric age groups.

Detailed responsibilities :

• PATIENT OBSERVATION - Observe patient to ensure their safety and well being; report observations to Charge Nurse or appropriate designee
• PATIENT CARE - Provide basic patient care; take and record vital signs to include temperature, pulse, respiration, weight, height, blood pressure and intake-output measurements
• PATIENT CARE - Assist with activities of daily living (ADL) : meals, ambulation, hygiene, linen change and toileting as instructed
• PATIENT CARE - Maintain therapeutic plan of care and minute to minute care of patient who is at extreme risk to self or others
• PATIENT CARE - Complete documentation as required on the Electronic Medical Record
• PATIENT CARE - Complete specific skills listed in the University of New Mexico, Unlicensed Assistive Personnel Specific Functions Matrix
• DEVELOPMENT - Enhance professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, reading current literature, attending in-services, meetings and workshops
• PATIENT SAFETY 1 - Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures and protocols
• PATIENT SAFETY 2 - Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current policies and processes
• PATIENT SAFETY 3 - Identify and report / correct environmental conditions and / or situations that may put a patient at undue risk
• PATIENT SAFETY 4 - Report potential or actual patient safety concerns, medical errors and / or near misses in a timely manner
• PATIENT SAFETY 5 - Encourage patients to actively participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or situations that they don't understand or may not seem right
• PATIENT CENTERED MED - Adhere to and promote the core expectations of the Patient Centered Medical Home or Patient Centered Specialty Practice as applicable
• EQUIPMENT & SUPPLIES - Maintain equipment, stock supplies, complete daily checks to ensure EMU equipment is operational.
• MONITOR - Under direction of licensed personnel; attentively observe behavior of designated patients, via camera, on the Neuroscience Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) and remotely on other in-patient hospital units, recognize and respond to routine and emergent behavioral event situations, notify appropriate personnel of changes, document behaviors of such patients in the appropriate charting areas, and optimize EEG readings by preventing and / or eliminating artifact.
• PRIOR AUTHORIZATION - Verify coverage eligibility on patients for outside services as needed

Qualifications

Education : Essential :

Education specialization :

Essential :

Experience : Essential :

1 year directly related experience

Nonessential :

Bilingual English / Keres, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, Zuni, or Navajo

Credentials : Essential :

Nonessential :

Physical Conditions :

Heavy Work : Exerting 50 to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and / or 25 to 50 pounds of force frequently, and / or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects or people. Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Medium Work.

Working conditions : Essential :

Department : Clinical Nursing Support