Iberia Medical Center (IMC) in New Iberia, LA is looking for team members who will help advance our vision to be the premier hospital of choice for patients, physicians, and employees. We've been caring for our community for over 60 years and offer many diverse career paths. Our new employees experience opportunities to learn and grow while caring for their families, friends, and neighbors.

JOB SUMMARY: 

• PRN or Relief position
• Provide basic patient care.
• Perform routine treatment procedures and assist
  in maintenance of a safe, clean environment.
• Ensure adherence to Hospitals and
  departmental policies and procedures.
• Patient care assignment may include
  neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric age groups.

SUPERVISED BY: Medical Surgical Unit Manager or Emergency Department Manager

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Completion of basic nursing skills course at an accredited
  nursing program
• Competency checklist for each identified tasks.
• Student in good standing of a nationally accredited nursing
  program with completion of first semester of acute care clinical course. 
• CPR Certification or must obtain within 30
  calendar days of date of position
  

PRINCIPLE TASKS, DUTIES, AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform routine treatment procedures, to include invasive
  procedures such as venipuncture for lab draws and IV initiation
• Assist nursing staff in complicated treatment procedures;
  perform routine treatment procedures
• Provide basic patient care; assist with ADL’s to include
  bathing and assisting patient to the bathroom, take and record vital signs to
  include temperature, pulse, respiration, weight, height, blood pressure and
  intake-output measurements
• Collect, label, and transport specimens
• Transport equipment, supplies, charts, and materials
• Make rounds, handle patient requests, report and record changes
  in condition or behavior of patients or unusual incidents, within scope of
  training
• Make rounds and handle basic patient requests, and perform basic
  patient and family assistance tasks
• Clean patient care rooms, equipment and instruments; report
  equipment problems; order and store supplies; maintain appropriate PAR levels
• Assist and accompany patients in the admission, transfer and
  discharge process
• Prepare patients for meals, and also assist patients as necessary
• Deliver and pick-up meal trays, pass the beverage cart, and assist
  designated patients to chair, with ambulation, or to the bathroom
• Maintain a safe, comfortable, and therapeutic environment for patients/families
  in accordance with Hospitals standards
• Enhance professional growth and development
  through participation in educational programs, reading current literature,
  attending in-services, meetings and workshops
• Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures and
  protocols
• Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by
  seeking opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current
  policies and processes
• Identify and report/correct environmental conditions
  and/or situations that may put a patient at undue risk
• Report potential or actual patient safety concerns,
  medical errors and/or near misses in a timely manner
• Encourage patients to actively
  participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting treatment or
  situations that they don't understand or may "not seem right" 

IBERIA MEDICAL CENTER is an EEO Employer - M/F/Disability/Protected Veteran Status