Job Description

:Patient Sitter - Float Pool @ Swedish Cherry HillFull Time (36 Hour Week)Night Shift12 Hour ShiftUnder the direction of the Nurse Manager or designee, performs a variety of tasks to assist ensuring that assigned patient(s) is safe and unable to harm themselves. Performs non- direct patient care duties as assigned.Providence caregivers are not simply valued - they\'re invaluable. Join our team at Swedish Cherry Hill and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.

• Assists professional nursing staff with direct observation of patients by performing basic non-technical tasks under direction and supervision.
• Provides secondary assistance with nursing staff for patient bed mobility, positioning and patient transfers.
• Adheres to department/system procedures and standards.
• Assures a clean and safe environment in patient room or location of care. Continues to observe patient\'s environment to ensure safety and comfort.
• Communicates effectively with patients, families, and staff - demonstrating a positive and caring attitude; demonstrates sensitivity to patient\'s emotional, social and mental health needs.
• Recognizes and reports changes in the patient and the environment following procedures and standards to the RN.
• Contributes to the care planning process by sharing observations regarding patients.
• Immediately alerts nursing personnel to emergency situations by using call light, phone or staff emergency button.
• Adhere to standard policies related to infection control, fire life safety and personnel policies.
• Maintains patient safety by ensuring patients are not left or placed in an unsafe situation.
• Reports to work within 90 minutes when called into work after being placed on call.
• Encourage normal sleep/wake cycle.

Required Qualifications:

• National Provider BLS - American Heart Association upon hire.

Preferred Qualifications:

• College classes with a pursuit of health care degree.
• Multilingual.

Why Join Providence?Our are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our of improving the health and wellbeing of each patient we serve.Accepting a new position at another facility that is part of the Providence family of organizations may change your current benefits. Changes in benefits, including paid time-off, happen for various reasons. These reasons can include changes of Legal Employer, FTE, Union, location, time-off plan policies, availability of health and welfare benefit plan offerings, and other various reasons.About Us: At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of \xe2\x80\x9cKnow me, care for me, ease my way.\xe2\x80\x9d Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we\'ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.Check out our for more information about our Benefits and Rewards.About the Team: Providence Swedish is the largest not-for-profit health care system in the greater Puget Sound area. It is comprised of eight hospital campuses (Ballard, Edmonds, Everett, Centralia, Cherry Hill (Seattle), First Hill (Seattle), Issaquah and Olympia); emergency rooms and specialty centers in Redmond (East King County) and the Mill Creek area in Everett; and Providence Swedish Medical Group, a network of 190+ primary care and specialty care locations throughout the Puget Sound. Whether through physician clinics, education, research and innovation or other outreach, we\'re dedicated to improving the wellbeing of rural and urban communities by expanding access to quality health care for all.Providence is proud to be an . We are committed to the principle that every workforce member has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law. We believe makes us stronger, so we are dedicated to shaping an inclusive workforce, learning from each other, and creating equal opportunities for advancement.

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