Work Status Details: TEMPORARY | 72.00 Hours Every Two Weeks
Shift: Nights
Pay Rate Type: Hourly
Location: Yuma Regional Medical Ctr

Listed is the base hiring salary range offered for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors, including but not limited to skills and experience. The salary range listed is just one component of the total rewards/compensation package offered to candidates.
Min = $20.95
Mid = $26.19
Max = $31.43

Summary:

The Patient Care Assistant II is a member of the healthcare team who provides direct and indirect patient care duties, supporting nursing within the Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) scope of practice.

Responsibilities:

Adheres to workflows and patient care tasks outlined by training and orientation. Accepts delegation from nurses to provide care in alignment with scope of practice.

Conducts effective handoff between care team members, including communication with the nurse regarding the patient's care plan each shift. Contributes to the admission, transfer, and discharge processes.

Attentive to patient and visitor needs, maintaining compassionate care that addresses both physical and emotional aspects of well-being and communicates clearly and effectively through established systems concerning relevant information (verbally, non-verbally, and in writing).

Assists patients with activities of daily living (ADL's), including patient hygiene, pressure injury prevention, and safe mobility and reduces risk of harm to patients through safety interventions.

Serves to transport patient specimens safely and effectively, documents accurately and timely in the Medical Record and appropriately reports to the nursing staff any concerns identified.

Contributes to seamless department operations by demonstrating sufficient work habits such as dependability, workplace cleanliness and organization, supply management and vigilant patient care equipment maintenance and management.

Maintains professional responsibilities related to education, training, and accountability to department communication methods.

May be oriented to unit secretarial duties to include responding to incoming calls, supporting personnel through interdepartmental and interprofessional communications; uses organizational communication systems to notify of codes (e.g. Code White, Code Neuro).

Specific to inpatient locations: purposeful rounding in alignment with Policy, educates patient to call light use, and is committed to call light responsiveness.

Specific to Women's and Children's: responsibilities related to registration, certification, patient admission, insurance authorization process, electronic birth records, paternity testing, and recording fetal death.

Other duties as assigned by department leadership.

Credentials:
Essential:
* BASIC LIFE SUPPORT (BLS)
* LICENSED NURSING ASSISTANT (LNA)

Education:
Essential:
* HS DIPLOMA/GED

Other information:

Minimum Education Required:

High school diploma or GED.

Basic Life Support (BLS) from American Heart Association (AHA).

Licensed Nurse Assistant (LNA).

Why Yuma Regional Medical Center?

Yuma Regional Medical Center (YRMC) is located in Yuma, AZ. Our purpose is building a healthier tomorrow. We strive by putting patients first as they are the center of every decision and action we take. YRMC is rooted in the community by living and breathing the dynamic nature of our region. Being committed to progress by constantly and consistently advancing healthcare, creating meaningful experiences and improving the lives of everyone around us.

Our Values

Bring Kindness | Achieve Together | Aspire For Better | Do The Right Thing | Lead With Optimism |

About Yuma, AZ

Named by the Guinness World Records as the Sunniest City on Earth with winters averaging temperatures of 70 degrees, sunny days and cooler nights.

Yuma, Arizona is a place to explore the great outdoors with hiking, jet skiing, boating and off-roading. Don't forget to soak up the sun at the great Colorado River or one of Yuma's many lakes.

Yuma is centrally located in Southwest Arizona, within a short drive to many popular attractions and destinations.

https://www.visityuma.com/

https://www.yumachamber.org/

Bring your skills to one of the sunniest places on earth - Yuma, AZ!

Physical Requirements and working conditions for this position will be provided to you up on interview.