Job Description

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Job Title : Physical Medicine Aide Job Summary :

• Prepares patients and equipment for physical therapy and treatments and performs tasks to maintain the department in an orderly condition. The Physical Therapy Aide removes and replaces braces, splints, and slings from patient bodies before and after treatment, assists therapist in supporting patient during treatment, changes linens, and cleans and stores equipment after use.

Experience, Education, Training, Special Skills, and Licensure :

• High School or equivalent
• Successful completion of Therapy Aide training and testing

Job Function : * Patient Care

• Provides compassionate and dignified patient care by assisting in patient transfer to and from department examination area, helping therapist with patient positioning on table, and providing care to the patient following therapy.
• Maintains accurate patient care documentation on logs, CIS, and sign in/out sheets in an effort to enhance unit operational efficiency.
• Preparation
• Prepares for patient treatment by changing linens before treatment, applying hot packs, and moving patient from wheelchair to table. Arranges equipment and treatment area according to Physical Medicine Therapist\'s specifications in an effort to assist the department in providing high quality patient rehabilitation.
• Ensures that work areas and examination rooms are adequately stocked with equipment and supplies and are properly cleaned and disinfected such that a safe and reliable atmosphere for high quality patient care may be provided. Transports patients in a safe and expedient manner and ensures that patients have identification bracelets before transportation. Transports soiled linen to appropriate areas.
• Keeps wheelchairs and stretchers clean, made-up, and stored appropriately, and stocks dressing areas with clean linens in order to ensure availability at all times.
• Utilizes all equipment, supplies, facilities, and resources in a prudent and efficient manner in order to ensure efficient departmental operations and the provision of high quality health care services.
• Collaboration and Partnership
• Assists Physical Medicine Therapists in carrying out corrective exercise programs and treatments for assigned patients in an effort to ensure that high quality patient care is provided.
• Assists Physical Medicine Therapists in performing patient treatments, encourages patient participation, and maintains open communication with Physical Medicine Therapist regarding patient\'s performance and progress.
• Notifies appropriate personnel when patient care problems arise (e.g., non-operable I.V.s, cardiac arrest) in a timely manner.
• Participates in educational programs, in-service meetings, and training sessions in an effort to share his/her own expertise with others and further the quality of education and personal growth provided to new personnel, volunteers, and interning students.
• Observes and adheres to all departmental and hospital policies and procedures, and follows all safety, quality assurance, and infection control standards.
• Other Duties As Assigned
• Performs other duties as assigned or requested.

About Us:

The Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System is a leading health care innovator in Louisiana and Mississippi. We bring together outstanding clinicians, the most advanced technology and leading research to ensure that our patients receive the highest quality and safest care possible.

This commitment is grounded in a history that is more than 100 years old, but reflected today by our strategic vision of transforming healthcare through superior performance and excellent patient care.
In the last fiscal year, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System had:

• 1,747 Licensed Beds
• 65,322 Discharges
• 44,592 OR Procedures
• 10,827 Full Time Employees
• 331,360 Inpatient Days
• 1,915 Active Medical Staff
• 229,296 Emergency Visits

As a nonprofit, mission-focused Catholic healthcare ministry, we give special attention to our citizens who are most in need. During the most recent fiscal year, we provided more than $39 million in unreimbursed care and community support to the underprivileged.

Our health system is one of the largest in Louisiana, with hospitals, clinics and physicians located throughout Louisiana and in Mississippi. In fact, we provide care to almost half of Louisiana\'s citizens, and serve in Mississippi\'s largest metropolitan area. Because of our size and the partnerships we have with other local organizations, we are able to pool our resources and share cost and service efficiencies and learn from each other, thereby accelerating our ability to improve care and solve challenges.

Since our founding in Monroe, Louisiana in 1911, we have been blessed by the guidance of the Franciscan Sisters. Through their guidance and steadfast example, we have committed to assure that we perpetuate their healing ministry for another hundred years. It is a noble purpose we strive to fulfill every day.

Headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, we serve patients across Louisiana and Mississippi through a network of hospitals, clinics, physicians, elderly housing and integrated information system. Our health system has partnered with the State of Louisiana as it transforms its healthcare delivery system. The partnership includes inpatient acute care and primary care delivery in Baton Rouge and Bogalusa.

Following in the footsteps of our founders, the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, our team members and physicians are called to provide high quality care and compassion to all people, especially those most in need.

As we look to the future of our healthcare ministry, we chart our course by \xe2\x80\x9cgoing where we are called.\xe2\x80\x9d

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System