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Performs a variety of direct patient care procedures to assist the unit manager, professional staff and physicians in providing patient care focused on the needs of the patient.

GENERAL PATIENT CARE - Meets the comfort and hygiene needs of the patient.

TECHNICAL CARE - Assists with completion of patient testing and treatment procedures, sets up and primes IV tubing, 12-lead ECG, simple tracheostomy suctioning and care, changes dressings, performs cardiopulmonary resuscitation, obtains wound and throat cultures. 

EQUIPMENT - Assists physician and professional staff in equipment supply and set up. 

TRANSPORT - Assists with ambulating patients with assistive devices such as crutches and with transfer/transport procedures. 

COMMUNICATION - Performs required documentation and commun...