Care Partner - 1W (Days)

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Lebanon, TN

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is seeking a Care Partner for the 1 West unit in Nashville, Tennessee. This role involves assisting nursing staff and patients with basic care needs, implementing orders, and evaluating care for various patients. The Care Partner reports directly to the charge nurse and Clinical Director of the unit and collaborates with various healthcare team members to ensure quality of care. This position requires self-direction, a focus on quality, and strong interpersonal communication skills. The 1 West unit treats adult patients under Observation status (stay <48 hours) and those with COVID+/Rule-out COVID diagnoses, comprising 10 observation beds, 4 COVID beds, and 2 flex beds. Experience in palliative care, hospice, and nursing home care is encouraged.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED
Relevant Work Experience
Less than 1 year of experience
Fundamental Awareness of Environment of Care (Has limited experience or training working with set up and maintenance of patient exam rooms, supplies and equipment.)
Fundamental Awareness of Care Partner Patient Documentation (Has limited experience or training working with clinical applications for patient documentation.)
Fundamental Awareness of Planning & Organizing (Demonstrates ability to anticipate basic resource needs, identify discrete tasks, set priorities, define dependencies, schedule activities, meet deadlines, and organize work for own assignments and responsibilities. Appropriately matches equipment, and capital resources to task demands. Prepares and presents clear and accurate status reports on projects and assignments.)
Supporting Colleagues: Develops Self and Others: Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities.
Builds and Maintains Relationships: Seeks to understand colleagues' priorities, working styles and develops relationships across areas.
Communicates Effectively: Openly shares information with others and communicates in a clear and courteous manner.
Serves Others with Compassion: Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service.
Solves Complex Problems: Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns in a timely manner.
Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Listens carefully to understand the issues and provides accurate information and support.
Performs Excellent Work: Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards.
Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department.
Demonstrates Accountability: Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide high-quality work/service.
Stewards Organizational Resources: Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources.
Makes Data Driven Decisions: Uses accurate information and good decision making to consistently achieve results on time and without error.
Generates New Ideas: Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them.
Applies Technology: Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action.
Adapts to Change: Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.

Nice To Haves

Experience in palliative care
Experience in hospice
Experience in nursing home care

Responsibilities

Obtains vital signs, Intake and Outputs, and daily weights
Reports any abnormal findings to the nurse and/or charge nurse
Assists patients with activities of daily living, bathing, and toileting
May transcribe physician orders, answers patient call lights and relays messages to staff in a timely manner
May assist physicians with obtaining needed information on patients
Adheres to practices and policies outlined to ensure patient safety and follows infection control standards