
patient care professional East Elmhurst, NY
Job description
.Job Responsibilities:
- Travel to clients' homes daily.
- Prepare meals for the client.
- Do light cleaning in the home.
- Ensure that clients take their medication.
- Assist clients with hygiene activities such as bathing and using the bathroom.
- Checks vital signs, weighs and measures patients, obtains specimens and records findings on patient’s chart.
- Instructs patients on how to obtain specimens for laboratory testing and performs basic specimen screening testing through dipstick and hemoccult.
- Prepares collected specimens for pick-up by labeling and preparing required form(s). Picks-up lab results.
- Performs vision and hearing testing and simple urinalysis.
- Maintains inventory of the unit’s equipment stock and supplies.
- Administers emergency first aid, including basic life support procedures
- Performs simple first aid such as dressing changes, bandaging and cleansing of wounds, irrigation and cleansing of ears.
- Prepares patient for examination and assists medical provider during examination by providing necessary supplies/equipment.
- Prepares examining room for examination including cleaning and sterilizing instruments and equipment.
- Informs patients on proper preparation for various medical testing.
- Conducts interview of client to obtain routine personal and medical information and appropriate health history.
- Maintains, completes, processes and files patients’ charts, appropriate forms and documents.
- Reports observations of patient to medical staff caring for patient to ensure professional assessment.
- Answers routine inquiries of patients in person or via telephone and makes appropriate referrals.
- Participates in informing patients and their families of health care services and achieving healthful, safe living.
- Works effectively as a team member in the delivery of care and assists in the orientation of new employees.
- Directs and escorts patients to other hospital departments and/or facilities, as needed.
- Coordinates efforts of various clinic and facility departments in scheduling and rebooking appointments through manual and/or automated systems and enters pertinent patient information into hospital data systems.
- Obtains blood specimens for laboratory testing by performing venipuncture and/or finger stick testing.
- Operates electrocardiograph equipment to record electrical wave tracing of the electrical currents of the heart muscle.
Skills: 2 years of Med/Surg experience required.
Education: AHA BLS; High school diploma or its educational equivalent; Completion of a NYS Department of Health prescribed training program for Phlebotomy, satisfactory to the Laboratory Director; Completion of a health care setting-based training program in the performance of electrocardiographs.
Certifications & Licenses: BLS & Phlebotomist
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Salary: $22.00 - $26.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
Medical specialties:
- Medical-Surgical
Physical setting:
- Corrections
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Evening shift
- Monday to Friday
Supplemental pay types:
- Overtime pay
People with a criminal record are encouraged to apply
Work Location: One location
About Compu-Vision Consulting
CEO: Shaloo Mital
Revenue: Unknown / Non-Applicable
Size: Unknown
Type: Company - Private
Website: https://compuvis.com/
