Patient Care Assistant II | ED | Nights

Patient Care Assistant II | ED | Nights Location

Yuma, AZ 85364, United States

The Patient Care Assistant II is a member of the healthcare team who provides direct and indirect patient care duties, supporting nursing within the Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA) scope of practice.

• Adheres to workflows and patient care tasks outlined by training and orientation. Accepts delegation from nurses to provide care in alignment with scope of practice.
• Conducts effective handoff between care team members, including communication with the nurse regarding the patient’s care plan each shift and contributes to the admission, transfer, and discharge processes.
• Attentive to patient and visitor needs, maintaining compassionate care that addresses both physical and emotional aspects of well‑being and communicating clearly and effectively through established systems concerning relevant information.
• Assists patients with activities of daily living (ADLs), including patient hygiene, pressure injury prevention, safe mobility, and reduces risk of harm to patients through safety interventions.
• Transport patient specimens safely and effectively, documents accurately and timely in the Medical Record, and appropriately reports to the nursing staff any concerns identified.
• Contributes to seamless department operations by maintaining workplace cleanliness, supply management, and vigilant patient care equipment maintenance and management.
• Maintains professional responsibilities related to education, training, and accountability to department communication methods.
• May be oriented to unit secretarial duties, including responding to incoming calls, supporting personnel through interdepartmental and interprofessional communications; using organizational communication systems to notify of codes such as Code White and Code Neuro.
• Specific to inpatient locations: purposeful rounding in alignment with policy, educating patients on call light use, and ensuring call light responsiveness.
• Specific to Women’s and Children’s units: responsibilities related to registration, certification, patient admission, insurance authorization, electronic birth records, paternity testing, and recording fetal death.
• Other duties as assigned by department leadership.

• BASIC LIFE SUPPORT (BLS)
• LICENSED NURSING ASSISTANT (LNA)

• HS DIPLOMA/GED

High school diploma or GED;
Basic Life Support (BLS) from American Heart Association (AHA);
Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA).

Hourly pay: $20.95 – $31.43 per hour (salary range may vary).