10bits is a Healthcare and Professional Staffing Company. From nursing staffing, temp to hire, and permanent to healthcare contracts, 10bits provides hospitals and medical facilities with high-quality clinical professionals with the highest standards and compliance to provide the best medical care.
Job Title: Patient Care Associate Psychiatry
Job Location: New York, NY
Job Type: Contract
Job Duties:
- Functions as a member of a multidisciplinary team providing a full range of services to patients admitted to the inpatient psychiatry service.
- Participates in the patients admission and orientation to the inpatient unit.
- Responsible for assisting patients with changing; searching of patients; securing of valuables; review of unit rules and regulations and providing orientation to room and unit.
- Assists with preparation and updating of the Nursing Care Plan and Interdisciplinary Treatment Team.
- Plan and assists with therapeutic interventions in order to implement the plans as established.
- Performs selected direct care duties including therapeutic intervention, taking of vital signs and other health related data (i.e., height, weight, etc.), simple dressing changes, sputum, blood and urine collection, urine testing, personal hygiene (i.e., feeding, bathing, shaving, dressing, etc.), and EKG’s.
Job Requirements:
- 2 years’ experience working in law enforcement, Nursing or Psychiatric/Behavioral Health; or with Mental Health Population, Counseling, Group Family Dynamics.
- Venipuncture experience.
- Venipuncture and EKG or Phlebotomy certification.
- EKG skills.
- BLS (AHA) required
- Certificate of Medical Assistant training
- CPI or PMCS certification
Schedule:
- Night shift
- Weekends - 7:00 PM-7:00 AM
- Holiday availability
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $25.00 - $28.00 per hour
Schedule:
- 12 hour shift
- Holidays
- Night shift
Experience:
- law enforcement, Nursing or Psychiatric/Behavioral Health: 2 years (Required)
License/Certification:
- BLS Certification (Required)
- Venipuncture and EKG or Phlebotomy certification (Required)
Work Location: In person