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Providence St. Joseph Health Patient Sitter - Float in Issaquah, Washington
Description Patient Sitter - Float @ Swedish Issaquah Full Time (36 Hour Week) Night Shift 12 Hour Shifts Under 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 Issaquah 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: Upon hire: National Provider BLS - American Heart Association Preferred Qualifications: College classes with a pursuit of health care degree Multilingual Why Join Providence? Our best-in-class benefits 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 mission 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 Providence At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of "Know me, care for me, ease my way." 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,