Under close supervision of a licensed nurse, and according to established policies, procedures, and specific instructions, performs a variety of basic patient care activities and related services necessary in caring for the personal needs and comforts of patients.

Accountabilities: 

1. Maintains established standards of patient care and policies and procedures of ProMedica Monroe Regional Hospital and the nursing department.

2. Answers call lights, ensure patient’s needs, acts upon routine requests, or relays information to the proper person.

3. Assists patients with or provides personal hygiene care and other routine services patients requiring assistance such as bathing, dressing, shaving, offering, and removing bed pans, and so forth.

4. Serves patients with food trays and snacks and removes trays. Assists feeding patient if necessary.

5. May obtain and record patient’s vital signs including temperatures, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure readings, patient’s intake and output glucometer checks, patient weights, and other routine pertinent information. Observes patients’ conditions and medical equipment or apparatus reporting all unusual conditions or reactions to the appropriate nursing personnel. May assist nurses and physicians with patient examinations. Initiates and discontinues telemetry monitoring while maintaining a knowledge of the telemetry transmitter (i.e., changing patches, changing batteries).

6. Performs rounding in assigned rooms every other hour on patient to determine need for restroom, position change, possessions, and need for additional nursing care. Tidies patients’ rooms, changes bed linens, empties medical apparatus of patient discharges, and performs routine cleaning tasks on the nursing unit, as necessary.

7. Assists in admitting patients to the nursing unit, obtaining necessary or specialized supplies or equipment, explaining hospital routines, policies and so forth. Ambulates or assists in the ambulation of patients; assists in lifting patients in order to transfer them to and from wheelchair or wheeled beds; assists patients in walking; and transports patients to other areas of the hospital.

8. Assists and maintains participation in performance improvement and customer service improvement activities for patient care. Attends department meetings. Assists with the orientation of new personnel.