Reporting To: Staff Nurse/ Nurse Manager
Position Summary:
- Provide basic nursing care/ services under the guidance of their Supervisors.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve all patients with care and compassion with respect to their spiritual and cultural beliefs.
- Answer call bells and assist accordingly.
- Assist walking patients to toilet, bath and shower, assist them with use of bedpans and on to wheelchairs and trolleys.
- Send/ collect patients to and from wards/ clinics/ departments.
- Assist patients with meals.
- Prepare bed for admission of patients.
- Send and collect sets to and from Central Sterile Supply Unit.
- Ensure soiled linen is bagged and sent to the soiled storage room. Check and store away clean linen in the linen room / closed cupboard.
- Collect and Store consumable items appropriately.
- Maintain tidiness of wards/ patients room and cleanliness of assigned area or unit.
- Assist Staff Nurse in basic nursing care of ambulant/ non-ambulant patients e.g.: pressure area care.
- Ensure all chargeable items used for patients are duly recorded for accurate billing purposes.
- Record intake and output chart correctly.
- Male PCAs to assist in shaving and assisting in bed and toilet bath of male patients.
- Assist Staff Nurse in disinfecting of equipments and items on discharge of patients.
- Carry out work as assigned or requested.
Specialist Clinic PCA
- Prepare the consultation room for the days session and in between, up-keep and update in readiness for the next session.
- Greet patients and assist new patients to register before doctors consultation.
- Accompany at all time male doctors during procedures and examination of all female patients.
- Prepare and make available all the medical records for scheduled patients the day before the appointment date.
- Work with the frontline reception staff for smooth movement of the patients going for diagnostic procedures e.g. Laboratory, X-ray and admission.
- Verify that all administrative processes are complete and correct before carrying out any procedures e.g. Forms are filled correctly with patients name and registration number.
- Be sensitive to occupational health and safety measures e.g. wet floor are reported and mopped immediately.
- Organize and send used instruments for decontamination and sterilisation to CSSD at the end of each clinic session.
- Inspect all instruments and equipment, accessories in consultation rooms.
- Carry out work as assigned or requested.
Education and Requirements:
- SPM
- At least 2 years experience in hospital/ clinic work.
- Be conversant in English and Bahasa Malaysia, both written and oral.
Special Demands:
- Able to communicate well.
- Be polite to patients /relatives.
- Give service with a smile.
