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 to our full-time and part-time staff 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.

Assists in the delivery of safe, efficient, quality patient care.  Works in collaboration with all members of the healthcare team, as well as with the patients, families and visitors.  Performs routine patient/resident care activities for the Powell Valley Healthcare patients/residents to promote comfort, maintain their functional ability and contribute to their overall patient/resident care interdisciplinary team.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

  • Performs procedures under the supervision of a provider. 
  • Greet and assist patients or visitors who present to the nurses’ station.
  • Escort patients to assigned rooms, interview patients, and measure and record vital signs.
  • Record patient home medications within the patient’s medical record. 
  • Assist with stocking inpatient rooms. 
  • Answer phone calls, provide general information according to policy, relay messages to appropriate staff or patients.
  • Collect and prepare laboratory specimens.
  • Change simple dressings as needed. 
  • Perform venipuncture if needed.
  • Completing EHR daily tasks assigned by provider by end of the day. 
  • Prepare and administer vaccines as directed by a provider and place in immunization registry. 
  • 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.
  • Maintains quality control logs on necessary equipment and testing supplies.
  • Maintain patient confidentiality. 
  • Monitor telemetry, save in electronic health record, notify nursing staff of arrhythmias.
  • Take verbal or telephone orders from providers and place in EHR.
  • Collaborate with other departments to schedule patient tests/procedures.
  • Assist assigned patients’/residents’ with delegated daily care needs.  This includes physical or coaching assistance with dressing and undressing, bathing, eating, and ambulating.  The AA/MA provides assistance with consideration for the patients’/residents’ choices, privacy, dignity, and independence.  As a member of the multidisciplinary team, the AA/MA contributes input to the patient/resident care planning process.
  • Provides or assists assigned patients/residents with their daily care activities according to established procedures and with consideration for the patients’/residents’ 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/residents or assisting them in ambulating, and assisting with admission and orientation of patients/residents to the facility environment.
  • Records all patient/resident data on the proper forms accurately and efficiently in a concise, legible manner using the format designated by departmental protocols or appropriately in the electronic medical record. 
  • Assist with participation with PT/OT exercise, ambulation, and passive Range of Motion as prescribed by Physical Therapy.
  • Implement the daily activity plan as developed by Case Management and Occupational Therapy and anticipate taking patients to a variety of venues to participate in appropriate activities. 
  • Order supplies for units. 
  • Collaborate with hospitalist and nursing with admissions, transfers, and discharges. 
  • Perform venipuncture.
  • Perform electrocardiogram.
  • Other duties as assigned.  

KNOWLEDGE, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

  • High School diploma or GED
  • Medical Assistant or Certified Nursing Assistant Certification Preferred.
  • Medical Terminology desired.
  • BLS for Healthcare Provider.
  • Computer competency 

SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED: 

  • Skilled at using blood pressure cuffs, ear/oral/temporal thermometers and oxygen saturation machines 
  • 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.
  • Posted on: April 5, 2024