Patient Care Support Assistant, Float Pool
PRN/OCC, Hours and Shifts vary
**For High School Students Only**
Parkwest Overview:
Parkwest is West Knoxville’s premier medical facility and a top-performing heart hospital. In addition to providing the area’s leading cardiac services, Parkwest has been nationally recognized for award-winning care throughout our facility. Annually Parkwest is recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of Tennessee's “Top 10” hospitals.
Float Pool:
At Parkwest Medical Center, our nursing Float Pool consist of an amazing team of nurses, patient care assistants and health unit coordinators with a wide skill set that are trained to staff all acute care units and/or specialty units in our hospital.
Acute Care Units include:
Oncology, Post Surgical
Orthopedic-Neuro, Bariatric
Cardiac Specialty
Cardio-Thoracic Surgical
Complex Medical Unit
Acute Renal, Pulmonary
Senior Behavioral Health
Specialty Units include:
Emergency Department
Critical Care
Our float pool exists to help out every unit throughout our facility during times of ever-changing patient census and staffing needs. We require at least one year of recent RN experience to join our float pool. As an incentive for the flexible nature of our positions, we offer an additional differential to all float pool employees.
As a staff member in our float pool, you will perform a variety of tasks. Because our staff move from unit to unit, it is important that our staff have a positive patient centered attitude, can be flexible, and take initiative to deliver exceptional care. In addition to having excellent critical thinking skills, our ideal candidate will also possess outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
Our float pool department has a supportive environment and orientation is tailored to your needs. We want to grow employees by promoting a culture of excellence and professionalism.
If you are passionate about putting patients first and you think variety is the spice of life, apply for our float pool today!
Position Summary:
The Patient Care Support Assistant functions as direct support in patient care performing tasks to assist nurses and providers. Performs hands-on care, assistance with ADL’s, and specified technical tasks for a group of patients under the supervision of the nurse. Duties include supporting the Medical Surgical Unit and Emergency Room with patient care, housekeeping, HUC, sitter, and transporting of patients.
Recruiter: Jason Shubert || jshuber1@covhlth.com || 865-374-5393
Minimum Education:
None specified; this is an internship for high school students 16-17 years of age who are enrolled in healthcare courses and intending to pursue a career in healthcare.
Minimum Experience:
Medical terminology a plus. Must be able to operate computer and possess excellent interpersonal skills. Must be able to read with comprehension, write legibly, and perform basic arithmetic computation. Must successfully complete Covenant’s orientation and Nursing Assistant in-house training program before being permitted to work with patients.
Licensure Requirement:
None
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