21159281
MidState Medical Center
Meriden, CT
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Description
Job Schedule: Part TimeWork where every moment matters.
Every day, over 30,000 Hartford HealthCare colleagues come to work with one thing in common: Pride in what we do, knowing every moment matters here. We invite you to become part of Connecticut’s most comprehensive healthcare network.
Serving our community since 1998, MidState Medical Center is a vibrant and progressive organization with a genuine concern for our patients, community, and employee’s alike. We’ve earned top honors for quality stroke care, gold level recognition for organ donation, and employing leaders in the field of cardiovascular and pulmonary rehabilitation, providing the highest quality level of care.
The Crisis Services Unit in the Emergency Room provides its patients with the highest level of care for all ages as they face acute exacerbation of mental health symptoms. Our multi-disciplinary team is comprised of Psychiatrists, Registered Nurses, Nurse Technicians, and Social Workers. This locked subset of the main Emergency Room is equipped with features to provide optimal safety for our patients and staff. Our staff works in collaborative environments with strong interdisciplinary teams in a patient centered care model in a richly diverse work space.
Job Summary
Provides safe and appropriate basic patient care, as delegated by a Registered Nurse, in order to assist patients in achieving established outcomes by: performing comfort measures; assisting patients with activities of daily living (e.g. basic hygiene, toileting, nutrition, etc.); collecting data points (e.g. vital signs, EKG's, phlebotomy, blood glucose monitoring, etc.) entering all lab request information into the database system; providing RN with information utilized in assessment; performing direct patient observation; reporting changes in patient condition to RN; reinforcing patient education; and performing wound dressings as needed.
Qualifications
Qualifications
As a Hartford HealthCare entity, MidState Medical Center provides eligible employees with an extensive benefits package consisting of:
With locations around the state, Hartford HealthCare offers exciting opportunities for career development and growth. Here, you are part of an organization on the cutting edge – helping to bring new technologies, breakthrough treatments and community education to countless men, women and children. We know that a thriving organization starts with thriving employees- we provide a competitive benefits program designed to ensure work/life balance. Every moment matters. And this is your moment.