Patient Safety Attendant PRN

Intermountain Health

9d • $18 - $23 • Onsite

About The Position

The Patient Safety Attendant (PSA) participates in high-quality, patient-centered care by providing continuous observation and monitoring for high-risk patients. In collaboration with the patient care team, the PSA helps keep the patient environment free of obstacles and minimizes the risk of falls and accidental or intentional self-harm. The PSA may also assist with basic activities of daily living.

The role requires maintaining continuous line of sight, including during bathroom use, and observing patients while eating and drinking. The PSA keeps the room clean and safe, accompanies patients to tests or procedures, reports changes and concerns to the assigned nurse, and communicates patient information during hand-off with nursing present. The PSA listens attentively to patients without offering advice, follows infection-control policies, completes environmental safety checklists, and coordinates with the nurse partner when patient mobilization is needed.

For patients with suicidal ideation, the PSA provides continuous one-on-one visual observation and takes additional environmental safety precautions. These include managing linens, clothing and belongings; monitoring visitor items; limiting access to potentially hazardous utensils, cords, supplies and equipment; and promptly consulting nursing when needed.

This is a PRN night-shift position in the Patient Safety department at Intermountain Health St. Vincent Regional Hospital in Billings, Montana. Scheduled weekly hours are 0. The hourly range is $17.86–$23.21, with the actual rate dependent on experience. The position is not benefits eligible.

Requirements

• Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (BLS-HCP) certification upon hire or within 60 days of hire with prior approval.
• Ability to see and read information and labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, and identify equipment and supplies.
• Ability to communicate verbally and hear and understand spoken information, alarms, patient needs and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergencies.
• Manual dexterity to manipulate complex and delicate equipment precisely and accurately, including frequent computer use and typing for documentation and information access.
• Ability to lift and use a full range of motion to transfer patients, and to bend, retrieve, lift and carry supplies and equipment, including heavy items.
• Ability to walk and assist with transporting or ambulating patients, obtain and distribute supplies and equipment, and push or pull gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items.
• Ability to navigate crowded and busy rooms, including areas with equipment and power cords on the floor.
• Ability to stand in a stationary position for an extended period.

Nice To Haves

• One or more years of experience working in a hospital setting.
• Workplace Violence Prevention Training.

Responsibilities

• Maintain continuous line of sight of the patient at all times, including during bathroom use, and observe patients while eating and drinking; assist as needed.
• Ensure the cleanliness and safety of the patient’s room.
• Accompany patients to tests or procedures and remain with them unless instructed otherwise; wait outside if asked to leave and return when the procedure is complete.
• Promptly report changes or concerns in a patient’s status to the assigned nurse.
• Report patient information and activities during hand-off with nursing present.
• Report expressions of intent to harm self or others, or a desire to leave the facility against medical advice, to the assigned nurse.
• Communicate with team members to ensure the patient is not left alone.
• Listen attentively when patients wish to converse and encourage them to share concerns with the physician or assigned nurse without giving advice.
• Follow infection-control policies and complete the Environmental Safety Checklist each shift and during hand-off, coordinating with the primary nurse to mitigate ligature risks.
• Consult with the nurse partner if a patient needs to be mobilized.
• For patients with suicidal ideation, remain with the patient at all times and provide continuous one-on-one visual observation, including when family or visitors are present.
• For patients with suicidal ideation, remove or secure linens, clothing, shoes, jewelry, belongings and valuables as directed; monitor visitor items and consult nursing if visitors refuse safety instructions.
• For patients with suicidal ideation, allow only electric razors and plastic utensils, remove utensils after meals, and remove unnecessary electrical cords, plastic trash and linen bags, sharps containers, gloves and glove boxes.
• For patients with suicidal ideation, ensure windows are not opened and remove supplies, equipment or devices that could be used as ligatures or ligature-support devices.

Benefits

• This position is not benefits eligible.
• The posting describes Intermountain Health’s comprehensive benefits package as covering programs intended to support wellness, but states that this position is not benefits eligible.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed