Inpatient Unit Hospice Aide PRN

Company:

Compassus

 

Position Summary

The Inpatient Unit Hospice Aide - Medication is responsible for modeling the Compassus values of Compassion, Integrity, Excellence, Teamwork, and Innovation and for promoting the Compassus philosophy, using the 6 Pillars of Success as the foundation. S/he is responsible for upholding the Code of Ethical Conduct and for promoting positive working relationships within the company, among all departments, and all external stakeholders. The Inpatient Unit Hospice Aide - Medication provides safe, personal patient care at the hospice house.

Position Specific Responsibilities

• Actively participates in meeting agency customer satisfaction goals.
• Creates predictability for patients by following standard practices and using KEY WORDS AT KEY TIMES to decrease caregiver anxiety.
• Actively engages in QAPI initiatives and compliance activities.
• Takes part in professional development to maintain qualifications for role; completes CBTs in a timely manner.
• Completes duties delegated by the Inpatient Unit Registered Nurse on plan of care and demonstrates competency when necessary.
• After instruction by the RN provides total care or assists patient with:
  • Bed bath, tub bath, or shower.
  • Weighs patient.
  • Vital signs.
  • Reminds patient to take medication as specified by RN.
  • Dental, hair, and nail care, shaving, dressing/undressing.
  • Elimination needs including toileting by offering bedpan, urinal, or taking to bathroom (includes catheter care, colostomy, urine testing/collection).
  • Ambulating, transferring, positioning by using assistive devices such as walker, wheelchair, and prescribed ROM when taught by health care professional of Ministry Home Care.
  • Provides housekeeping duties: meal preparation and cleanup, dusting, sweeping and mopping, vacuuming, stain removal, tidying patient rooms, recycling and garbage removal, doing patient’s personal laundry, dishes, and tidying the bathroom after bathing the patient.
  • Feeds patients, maintains, intake/output as requested.
• Observes, reports, and documents physical and/or behavioral changes in the patient immediately to the Inpatient Unit Registered Nurse per established policies. Assists with completing an incident report for any unusual occurrence.
• Follows all safety, security, infection control (standard precautions) and hazardous materials policies and procedures. Performs all tasks to assure patient and personal safety and the protection of co-workers and agency property.
• Acquires any necessary continuing education each year. Complete mandatory in-services/competencies, attend meetings and review memos, minutes, etc.
• Will administer all PO, rectal, topical, and inhalation medications in accordance with the guidelines of the State approved Medication Assistant course.
  • Other medication administration (bladder installation, G-Tube) may be delegated by the Inpatient Unit Registered Nurse pending demonstration of competency.
  • Monitors patient’s pain control, utilizing medication (as directed by the Inpatient Unit Registered Nurse) & repositioning as needed.
  • Monitors patient for any adverse reaction to medications.
  • Counts narcotics at every shift change.
  • Documents accurately on scheduled & prn medication administration guide.
  • Develops a list of medications in short supply as directed by the Inpatient Unit Registered Nurse.
  • Notifies Inpatient Unit Registered Nurse of any medication errors, seeks their direction, & assists in completing an incident report.
• Monitors patient’s tolerance to oral intake & medications.
• Identifies actual or potential quality/safety/ethical/legal issues in patient care and participates in resolution strategies.
• Maintains productivity standards.
• Promotes efficiency in use of supplies and visit utilization including mileage.
• Acts as ambassador for the agency in daily encounters with referral sources.
• Assists in fundraising activities of the agency to ensure access to care.
• Provides emotional support to patients/families throughout the continuum, maintaining professional boundaries. Works tactfully with all staff throughout the agency.
• Additional Duties:
  • Answers all call lights promptly and respond to requests in a compassionate manner.
  • Prepares bodies for Funeral Director.
  • Provides emotional support to patients and families during the dying process and following death.
  • Provides recreational support for patients, individualized to personal tastes and capabilities.
  • Provides information to staff, visitors, and physicians as requested.
  • Restocks supplies.
  • Reports to next shift.
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