Float Patient Sitter / Internal Travel Team

Overview

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Join Emory Healthcare (EHC) if you’re looking for an opportunity with one of the nation's leading Atlanta hospitals in cardiology and heart surgery, cancer, neurology, and more! EHC is where those around you are dedicated to the power of teamwork, fostering an environment where you can learn, grow, and innovate with similarly passionate professionals. Work with us to improve the quality of life throughout Georgia through partnerships with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Georgia Institute of Technology, and other organizations and make a bigger, greater impact than you ever thought possible.

Join Emory Healthcare's Travel Team and take your career on the move .

As part of this dynamic team, you'll have the flexibility to work across various facilities while leveraging your expertise in your specialty to support patient care where it's needed most. Travel team members serve as skilled clinical resources, helping meet critical staffing needs across the organization while delivering the exceptional care, collaboration, and excellence that define Emory Healthcare.

Description

Shift: PRN Position

Night Shift - 7pm - 7:30 am

Location: Travel between Emory locations within Emory Healthcare Locations

Salary: $22.00

Our internal travel nursing team can be a flexible program, allowing team members the ability to tailor work/life balance to fit their lifestyle.

We are seeking a capable Float Sitter to provide clinical resources in a variety of patient care departments throughout the Emory Healthcare (EHC) network of operating units and facilities.

• Is assigned to a patient in the hospital setting to maintain a safe environment.
• Observes and reports any changes in the patients condition to the nurse accountable for the patients nursing care.
• Communicate with patient/family members and all members of the health team to relay appropriate information as part of patient care. As part of a patient focused service, promotes a supportive and healing environment so that customer and staff satisfaction are enhanced.
• Under the supervision of the patient's nurse, may assist with transportation of the patient throughout the hospital, ambulation of the patient, bedpan/bathroom functions, bathing, bed making, feeding, providing oral fluids to patient and positions for comfort. Ensures the neatness and cleanliness of patient’s room.
• Supports cost efficient/effective patient care.
• Complies with Universal Precaution guidelines and all other infection control procedures and safety standards to maintain and promote a clean and healthy work environment.
• May discard disposable supplies, assist with bedrails wheelchairs, walkers, canes, and bedpans, under the supervision of the patient's nurse.
• Performs related responsibilities as required.
• Floats to patient care areas assigned. Performs other related responsibilities as required

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: High school diploma or equivalent.
• Basic computer skills
• A minimum of one year’s patient care experience is preferred.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification in accordance with the American Heart Association required.

JOIN OUR TEAM TODAY! Emory Healthcare (EHC), part of Emory University (EUV), is the most comprehensive academic health system in Georgia and the first and only in Georgia with a Magnet® designated ambulatory practice. We are made up of 11 hospitals-4 Magnet® designated, the Emory Clinic, and more than 425 provider locations. The Emory Healthcare Network, established in 2011, is the largest clinically integrated network in Georgia, with more than 3,450 physicians concentrating in 70 different subspecialties.

Additional Details

Emory is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.

Emory Healthcare is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. Please contact Emory Healthcare’s Human Resources at careers@emoryhealthcare.org. Please note that one week's advance notice is preferred.