Patient Attendant Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High school graduate or equivalent.
• Complete mandatory education and competencies required for the position.
• Sit for up to 8 hours per day and stand for up to 8 hours per day.
• Occasionally lift, carry, and push objects weighing up to 10 pounds.
• Ability to hear normal conversation and high and low frequencies.
• Ability to see for general, near, far, color, and peripheral vision.

Responsibilities

• Report on and off duty to the registered nurses assigned to care for patients.
• Receive patient-specific observation guidelines from the registered nurse for each patient, shift, and assignment.
• Help ensure a safe environment for patients under the direction of a registered nurse.
• Maintain visual contact with patients at all times through the designated IT technology platform as directed by the registered nurse.
• Identify themselves to patients and/or family members or significant others.
• Provide continuous virtual observation and monitoring of multiple patients using the SLUHN-designated IT platform.
• Report behavior changes and patient requests to patients’ assigned nurses.