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PER DIEM - Palm Bay Hospital
POSITION SUMMARY: To be fully engaged in providing Quality/No Harm, Customer Experience, and Stewardship by: providing exceptional healthcare in a professional manner. PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITIES: Quality/No Harm:
• Maintains patient safety at all times. • Ensures compliance with precautions and documents all current precautions and changes in status. • Evaluates patients thoroughly and documents evaluations according to applicable guidelines, standards and policies. • Completes progress notes and reassessments when required and documents them according to applicable guidelines, standards and policies. • Provides patients with effective treatments that progress them towards their goals and documents treatments according to applicable guidelines, standards and policies. • Attends department meetings that take place during scheduled work hours; otherwise, reviews and signs meeting minutes. Attends in-services given by other staff and students that take place during scheduled work hours. Customer Experience:
• Responds to therapy referrals and inquiries upon receipt. • Reviews daily assignments/schedules with the team. • Provides patients, families and staff with education regarding therapy services related to the patients' needs. Stewardship:
• Demonstrates financial responsibility by meeting patient scheduling requirements, ensuring productivity targets are met, and utilizing their time, supplies and support staff responsibly. • Prepares/reviews schedule for the next day. • Issues charges that correspond to the services provided and the documented treatment times.
Work Experience QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
• Completion of a discipline appropriate degree from an accredited program/college. • Current Florida license. • Must have Certificate of Clinical Competence or obtain within 6 months of completion of Clinical Fellowship Year. • Interpersonal communications skills. • Basic computer skills or willingness to learn. • Must hold current AHA BLS Healthcare Provider Completion Card prior to start date and maintain. PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
• Knowledge and use of proper lifting and body mechanics. • Must be able to assist in lifting, standing, supporting patients. • Able to bend and stoop as PT care requires.
MENTAL DEMANDS:
• Problem-solving ability. • Decision-making skills. • Able to interact with all people. • Able to concentrate under multiple demands/time constraints. • Able to concentrate in stressful and distracting surroundings.