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Patient Care Assistant

  • Full-time

Highlights

Demonstrates the primary goal of efficiently providing surgical services that exceed customer expectations and improve clinical and financial operations. Job Summary: Provides direct patient care by assisting patients with changing linens, ambulation, and transport.
United Surgical Partners International Inc (USPI)

Numbers & Facts

LocationHouston, TX
Job TypeFull-time
IndustryHealthcare Services
Company Size10,000 employees or more
Year Founded1998
Websitehttp://www.uspi.com/

Description

Job Summary: Provides direct patient care by assisting patients with changing linens, ambulation, and transport.  Maintains a clean and orderly patient care environment.  Assists during patient examinations and procedures. Obtains and records patient vital signs, provides dressing assistance and reports results and observations. Demonstrates the primary goal of efficiently providing surgical services that exceed customer expectations and improve clinical and financial operations.

 

Position requires weekdays only -- no holidays, weekends, or call. Some later evenings required.

 

 

 



Required Skills

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

 

  • Knows and adheres to policies of the Center and demonstrates fiscal responsibility.
  • Follows standards, policies, procedures, goals, and objectives for peri-operative nursing care according to accepted standards.
  • Maintains and demonstrates current skills and knowledge in aseptic technique.
  • Demonstrates ability to understand the unique needs of each age group of the patient population.
  • Follows OSHA and other standards for protection against blood borne pathogens.
  • Seeks involvement in activities that promote professional growth and behavior.
  • Uses good body mechanics and aseptic technique. 
  • Remains calm and functions as a team member during times of stress and crisis situations.
  • Able to take vital signs and apply V/S monitors and documents appropriately.
  • Informs Manager of applicable day-to-day situations.
  • Follows employee health and other personnel and staffing policies

 



Required Experience

About Company

Strength in Numbers
United Surgical Partners International (USPI) and Tenet have combined forces to create the nation’s largest ambulatory surgery provider. Our combined network of exceptional surgical and imaging facilities includes approximately 20 imaging centers, and over 265 short-stay surgical facilities. Together, our partnerships include 50 health systems and more than 4,000 physicians.

Nationwide Experience
Our partners deliver high quality ambulatory solutions in safe, efficient and caring USPI facilities in communities of every size across 29 states. Our physician partners are focused on providing quality patient care, in part because they are invested in their USPI facility. We provide the infrastructure and support they need to perform their best. This is one of the advantages of partnering with USPI.

Quality Patient Services
We share a vision with our physician and health system partners. Our goal is to provide the quality of healthcare services we would insist upon for our own families. Since our founding in 1998, this goal has helped us grow exponentially. Today, our strategic joint venture with Tenet establishes USPI as one of the nation's leading providers of ambulatory solutions.

Operating Excellence
Our size and experience in developing and operating ambulatory facilities and strategic vision allow our facilities to achieve both high patient satisfaction and solid financial results. Moreover, because we engage physicians in the governance and growth of the facility, we also achieve excellent clinical outcomes.

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