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Description
Patient Care Assistant - MICU PCU - FT - Nights
Parkland Health - Dallas, TX
Job Title: Patient Care Assistant - MICU PCU - FT - Nights
Position: Patient Care Activities under Direction of Registered Nurse
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City: Dallas
State: TX
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Job Responsibilities
- Performs specified patient care activities under the direction of a Registered Nurse, including providing basic hygiene care, unsterile treatments, taking vital signs, and range of motion exercises.
- Lifts, ambulates, and feeds patient in accordance with the provision of patient centered/patient valued care.
- Serves as a patient advocate by responding to a patient's needs and special requests.
- Maintains open communication and honors patient's rights and confidentiality.
- Monitors ongoing patient status and responds to a patient's change in condition by notifying and assisting nurses and other health team members.
- Makes appropriate notations and records activities performed, such as vital signs and feeding outcomes.
- Maintains, updates, and utilizes knowledge of sanitation, infection control, safety, supplies and equipment usage.
- Monitors conditions of the patient environment and equipment and reports deficiencies.
- Escorts patients to other areas, cleans designated areas, and provides or requests translation services when applicable.
- Identifies ways to improve work processes and procedures or methods.
- Makes recommendations to supervisor for appropriate changes to improve effectiveness, productivity, and customer satisfaction.
- Takes responsibility for own education and professional growth by attending in-service sessions and department meetings.
- Integrates knowledge gained into current work practices.
- Maintains knowledge of applicable rules, regulations, policies, laws, and guidelines that impact patient care.
- Develops effective internal controls that promote adherence to applicable state/federal laws and program requirements.
Required Skills
Core Skills
- Basic patient care skills
- Communication skills with personnel, patients, and families
Preferred Skills
- Knowledge of sanitation, infection control, and equipment usage
- Ability to monitor and record patient status
Requirements
Experience: None.
Education: Must have completed or hold a formal nurse aide course, medical assistant course, or patient care technician course, or be a graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
License & Certification:
- Current Heartsaver CPR course completion card within 90 days of hire
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COVID-19 Requirements: Not Specified
Benefits
- Not specified
Supplemental Pay
- Not specified
Special Notes
- Parkland Health and Hospital System prohibits discrimination based on multiple factors.
- Parkland Health is a tobacco and smoke-free campus.
Facility Details
Name: Parkland Health
Description: A diverse healthcare legacy that’s served the community for more than 125 years.
Specialties:
- Not specified
Mission: The health and well-being of individuals and communities entrusted to our care.
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No of Jobs:
1
Apply Before:
12/08/2025
Posted:
09/08/2025
