At Powell Valley Healthcare, providing quality healthcare to our community is our top priority. We are located in the heart of Powell, Wyoming; just 25 miles outside of Cody. We believe in creating positive and safe environments for both our patients and our staff. Being part of our organization means becoming a cornerstone in the patient experience and their care.
Here at PVHC, we offer a wide array of benefits in a way that allows you to choose options and build a package that works best for you. Some of the benefits we offer include:
- Health, dental and vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Long term disability coverage
- PTO – New employees accrue the equivalent of up to twenty days of PTO withing their first calendar year
- EIB (Extended Illness Bank) – Our version of accrued sick leave
- Nine paid holidays which includes two personal holidays
- Tuition Savings Plan
- Opportunities to cash out PTO for personal use, student loan payments, and in-house medical bills
- Tuition reimbursement – up to $5,000 per year
- Fun to be Fit program and Club Dauntless Membership Discount
- HRA – Flex spending accounts
POSITION SUMMARY:
Current Opening: One full-time position; 12 hour shifts.
Swing Bed Activity Aid plays a vital role in enhancing the quality of life for patients in the swing bed program. Planning and implementing a variety of therapeutic and recreational activities designed to improve the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of patients transitioning from acute care to long-term recovery. The Activity Aid works closely with the Swing Bed Program Coordinator, nursing staff, Physical/Occupational Therapy, and other healthcare professionals to ensure that patients receive comprehensive, holistic care.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Greet and assist patients or visitors who present to the nurses’ station.
- Assess patients’ activity preferences, hobbies, abilities, and limitations upon admission and throughout their stay and document in electronic health record.
- Develop and facilitate daily recreational and therapeutic activities tailored to individual patient needs and interests.
- Records all patient activities in electronic health record.
- Report observations and any changes in patient condition to the healthcare team.
- Assist with participation with PT/OT exercise, ambulation, and passive Range of Motion, restorative exercise room as prescribed by therapist.
- Coordinate group activities such as arts and crafts, games, exercise sessions, and social events
- Participate in interdisciplinary team meetings to discuss patient progress and activity outcomes.
- Ensure a clean, safe, and organized environment for activities.
- Provides or assists assigned patients with their daily care activities according to established procedures and with consideration for the patient’s choices, privacy, dignity and independence. This includes assisting patients/residents with bathing, dressing, undressing, assuring clothing is clean and properly marked, serving and collecting food trays, encouraging and/or assisting with feeding, answering call-lights, transporting patients or assisting them in ambulating, and assisting with admission and orientation of patients/residents to the facility environment.
- Assist with stocking inpatient rooms.
- Keep rooms tidy and clear from clutter daily.
- Schedule follow up appointments upon discharge and communicate to patient date and time of appointments.
- May assist in the giving of instructions to patients regarding follow up appointments.
- Maintain patient confidentiality.
- Collaborate with other departments to schedule patient tests/procedures.
- Other duties as assigned.
KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- High School diploma or GED
- Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) required
- BLS for Healthcare Provider
- Medical Terminology desired
- Computer competency
SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
- Read, write, and comprehend instructions, memos, and correspondence
- Effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customer, clients, and other employees of the organization.
- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
- Deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS/REQUIREMENTS:
- Regularly lifting or move objects weighing 10 to 50 pounds
- Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
- Reaching, handling, feeling, talking, hearing, stooping, bending, crouching, walking, standing, and working with equipment.
- Subject to inside and possibly outside weather conditions.
- The employee is also subject to exposure to blood and body fluids, proximity to moving mechanical parts, electrical shock, exposure to burns and radiant energy, exposure to explosives, exposure to toxic chemicals and biological agents.