Clinical & Quality Assistant, Telemetry

Responsibilities:

Under direct supervision of the professional staff, the Clinical & Quality Assistant, Telemetry performs certain non-complex duties related to patient care and functioning of the unit. The Clinical & Quality Assistant, Telemetry functions to support the staff assisting with clerical duties along with delivery of patient care to varied age groups while providing a calm, caring and clean environment.

Essential Functions:

• The Clinical & Quality Assistant, Telemetry assists other members of health-care team to deliver safe, appropriate quality patient care.
• Assists with or provides basic nursing care in order to help the nurse meet the activities of daily living for the patient.
• Assists with patient mobility needs including turning, positioning, transferring, and ambulation of patients as directed, using appropriate and proper body mechanics and assistive devices.
• Responds to emergency situations within the scope of their training and performs under the direction of the RN staff (i.e. CPR).
• Performs vital signs (VS), including use of automatic blood pressure (BP) machine as directed by the nursing staff.
• Under the direction of RN, provides basic skin care to prevent skin breakdown and maintain/improve skin integrity.
• Answers call bells and responds to patient's requests which are within their scope or communicates the need to the nurse.
• Transfers and moves all patient age groups via wheelchair, bed or stretcher to appropriate locations within the hospital
• Maintains open communication with department staff and accepts direction to ensure a safe environment
• Possesses and demonstrates a working knowledge of equipment in order to ensure a safe environment.
• Understands and respects patients' rights to privacy and dignity in order to maintain patient confidentiality
• Ensures that equipment and supplies considered essential are functional, safe and readily accessible in order to provide a safe environment.
• Performs department specific maintenance duties as appropriate to department.
• Acts as a patient advocate to ensure safe, appropriate, quality patient care.
• Adheres to standards of practice for infection control and universal precautions.
• Assists with communications between Department Manager, House Supervisor and unit staff regarding the 24-Hour Report, admissions, transfers and bed availability to operationalize department activities.
• Answer phone, faxes request for patient information and physician discharge instructions to primary care provider per HIPAA guidelines.
• Organizes, maintains, and updates departmental files and records (e.g., patient’s clinical record, unit statistics, old records, etc.) in an accurate manner to provide for timely and efficient processing of information.
• Copies and faxes records in a prompt manner according to established medical records policy in order to fulfill requests from appropriate sources

Schedule: 7:00 am to 7:30 pm, three days per week, every other weekend and every other holiday

Education and Experience:
High School Diploma/GED required

Licenses and Certifications:
Nursing Assistant – Certified, Upon hire, preferred
Basic Life Support (BLS), Upon hire, required

Benefits: 
We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits to part-time and full-time employees including:  

• Medical, dental, & vision insurance available 1st of the month after start date  
• Wellness and gym discounts & free cardiac rehab gym  
• 403B  
• On-site discounted childcare center  
• Paid time off  
• Sick time for full time employees  
• Tuition assistance 
• Free life insurance for full time employees  
• Long term disability for full time employees  
• Short term disability  
• Employee referral bonus  
• Identity theft insurance  
• Pet Insurance  
• Flexible spending accounts  
• Employee discount program  
• Employee Assistance Program   
• Free parking