Patient Safety Aide as HCE?

[cnguyenle]

This is the description while I was looking for HCE jobs in the area...

 

 

"The Patient Safety Aide is a caregiver who is visually attentive to a patient at risk due to meeting the criteria and having an order for a 1:1 patient watch."

 

Do you think this is adequate HCE experience?

 

[cinntsp]

Probably not but the best thing to do is call the schools you're interested in and ask.

 

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[PAtoB]

Most likely not because they're usually not allowed to do hands-on patient care.

[UGoLong]

The job you cite sounds like what we call a "sitter,"  who makes sure that the patient doesn't get out of bed, put out a line or tube, etc. If you want to get HCE in the hospital, a PCA would be a more relevant job, I should think,

[knic]

Depends on what you actually do.  This is essentially my job, but I do hands-on care and do most of what PCAs do.  I work in the Float Pool and feel like I have learned/seen a lot...Adcoms have liked it, although I do do a lot of direct care and don't just "sit" there.

[greenmood]

I wonder if this job is some way for a hospital to get around using a patient care Tech as a sitter. I mean, just sitting one to one with the patient is not really fulfilling the promise of a PCA or utilizing their skills fully. Seems like a hospital could pay someone significantly less if their only job is to be a sitter when needed, and not to do any of the other PCA tasks.

 

 

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