at Northwestern Memorial Healthcare in Wheaton, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Location Wheaton, Illinois
Business Unit Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital
Job REQID 82066
Job Function Patient Support
Shift Night Job (3rd)
Benefits
$10,000 Tuition Reimbursement per year ($5,700 part-time)
$10,000 Student Loan Repayment ($5,000 part-time)
$1,000 Professional Development per year ($500 part-time)
$250 Wellbeing Fund per year($125 for part-time)
Matching 401(k)
Excellent medical, dental and vision coverage
Life insurance
Annual Employee Salary Increase and Incentive Bonus
Paid time off and Holiday pay
Pay Starting at: $20.35+ per hour based on experience
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Description
12 hour shifts
$4,000 Sign on Bonus (internal transfers and rehires of less than a year are ineligible)
One East / West is a forty-bed unit specializing in stroke rehabilitation. Our team is comprised of physicians who are board-certified in stroke rehabilitation, nurses, therapists, nursing assistants, psychologists, dietitians and chaplains. Marianjoy Stroke Program is certified by the Joint Commission in Disease-Specific Care in Stroke Rehabilitation. The stroke team uses a multidisciplinary approach to creating individualized treatment plans to manage the physical, emotional and behavioral changes a patient may experience with the goal of returning patients to their families and communities. The complexity of patients on the unit provides an opportunity for advancement of clinical skills and professional growth and development.
Patient Care/Clinical Duties:
Collects and reports pertinent physiological, psychological, and functional data based on patient plan of care or patient need.
Assists and instructs patients with personal hygiene and activities of daily living, including showering, promoting maximal independence and skill practice.
Performs preventive skin care program as directed by RN and report any changes in skin integrity immediately to the RN.
Assists patients with bladder and bowel training programs including post void residuals and spot bladder scans. Perform straight catheterization for select patient populations under direction of RN and provide care for indwelling and external catheters and ostomies.
Accurately obtains and documents patients' vital signs/pulse oximetry and communicates any reportable values, symptoms or signs of distress to the RN.
Assists patients with transfers and mobility activities utilizing appropriate techniques, precautions and assistive devices. Practice therapy transfers and ambulation with patients within safe patient handling guidelines as delegated by the RN.
Assists patient with application of assistive devices and prosthetics/orthoses according to individual patient plan of care.
Assists patients with completing menus. Passes patient meal trays and HS snacks, verifying any modified diet is as ordered. Accurately calculates and documents calorie count and carbohydrates, intake and output as ordered.
Assist patient with 1:1 feeds as ordered. For patients with dysphagia, cue patient to use ordered swallowing strategies, under the direction of the RN.
Answers and triages patient call lights and meets patient care needs with an appropriate sense of urgency.
Proactively set up patient room for therapy readiness.
Get weekly weights on all patients, and daily as ordered, using appropriate method for patients moblility, and escalating changes as needed. .
Collection of laboratory specimens as directed by RN.
Obtains blood glucose measurements and 12- lead EKG as ordered.
Transfers patient from wall to tank oxygen or tube feedings in preparation for patient attending... For full info follow application link.
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