Albany CNA/PCA - Acute Floor

Mosaic Life Care • Albany, MO

10d

About The Position

The Patient Care Associate works under the supervision of leadership and under the direction of an RN, LPN, or provider. The role administers quality patient care according to established standards and may require working in other areas based on staff skills and patient acuity. The associate provides exceptional service to patients and customers.

The position requires the ability to travel between system facilities and off-site locations as needed. It involves providing direct patient assistance and may expose the employee to clinical and environmental hazards, including infection and disease exposure.

Requirements

• High school diploma.
• Meet PCA education requirements through one of the listed pathways: completion of a UAP training program within the last three years (excluding Albany caregivers); completion of a fundamentals of nursing course; completion of a certified nursing assistant program and attainment of certification; graduation from a professional or practical nursing program without passing the state licensure examination within the past three years; or graduation from a professional or practical nursing program outside the United States while awaiting licensure in the United States.
• For St. Joe and Maryville, documented experience as a nurse assistant, emergency medical technician, or surgical technician within the past three years may substitute for the PCA education requirements.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification within 90 days.
• CPI: Nonviolent Crisis Intervention within 90 days.
• Complete any other training required by the organization within 90 days.
• Ability to travel between system facilities and off-site locations as needed.
• Fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, ability to answer phones and perform data entry.
• Professional, friendly communication with patients, families, physicians, and coworkers.
• Ability to walk, move, kneel, crouch, stoop, reach, stand, push, pull, and lift, and to follow good body mechanics.
• Ability to collect information about a patient’s condition, evaluate effects of care, visually inspect a patient’s condition, problem-solve, interpret data, calculate, comprehend, explain, assess, evaluate, and use short- and long-term memory.
• Visual, hearing, feeling, smell, and speaking abilities.
• Ability to work with exposure to hazards including needles, cuts, back injury, chemotherapy, body fluids, blood, punctures, scratches, physical injury from combative patients, radiation, blood products, and road and weather hazards when driving; infection and disease exposure from patients, visitors, and coworkers.

Nice To Haves

• In Home Health, six months of hospital or nursing home experience.

Responsibilities

• Complete patients’ daily activities of daily living, including personal hygiene, dressing, and linen changes.
• Feed patients as indicated and record food and fluid intake and output when appropriate.
• Take and record vital signs, including pulse oximetry.
• Transport patients as appropriate.
• Lift, turn, reposition, and ambulate patients, independently or with assistance.
• Collect and transport urine, stool, and sputum samples for testing when assigned; complete point-of-care testing.
• Observe and report changes in a patient’s condition to the nurse.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Travel between system facilities and off-site locations as needed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED