Providing great patient care. Answering patient calls and determining how best to help them. Providing physical support for patients or residents with daily activities and personal hygiene, including bathing, dressing, getting out of bed, - using the toilet, walking, standing or exercising. Turning and repositioning bedridden patients. Ensuring patients or residents receive appropriate diet by reviewing their dietary restrictions, food allergies, and preferences. Obtaining a wide range of information from physicians, caregivers and nurses about patient condition, treatment plans, and suggested activities. Measuring and recording food and liquid intake and urinary and fecal output and reporting changes to medical or nursing staff. Noting observations of patient behavior, including complaints, or physical symptoms to nurses.

Every other weekend.
Required to float to other units.
This facility will not pre-approve any holiday week RTO. They schedule every other holiday here but they cannot guarantee specific holidays off in the contract.

High Intensity Care Unit (HICU) – (Vent/Pulmonary Care/Acute Rehab): Comprised of 20 semiprivate rooms and can accommodate up to 40 patients. A team approach is taken to provide care for patients, who may require attention for an acute brain injury, need respiratory assistance or special monitoring or require rehabilitation. Patients are monitored for cardiac conditions and serious complex conditions. HICU staff members are outgoing and positive and must utilize strong organizational and leadership skills to assess patient status, implement clinical nursing interventions to modify symptoms, and develop and implement patient care plans to enhance and improve outcomes. The unit accepts patients 18 years of age or older.

Brain Health Unit (BHU): Comprised of two 40-bed units. Staff members in the BHU are good communicators and can set boundaries, hold confidences, and establish and maintain trust. Patients in the BHU are admitted with medical and psychological diagnoses. The length of their stay is between 20-25 days, which provides an opportunity for clinical staff to analyze a patient’s behavior and cultivate a relationship that may help a patient see him- or herself in a better way. During their stay, patients will receive help with medication management and rehabilitation services if needed. Staff members will also assist in engaging patients in group activities and one-on-one exercises.

Household Units (HH) – (LTC): Provides long-term care for patients. Households are comprised of six units with 14 private bedrooms in each. Each HH has a central kitchen where a hostess can cook for the patients daily, den with books and a large-screen television, and a washer and dryer so that staff can wash residents’ clothing separately. HH 5-6 are for patients that may be suffering from dementia or reduced cognitive abilities; due to this staff members must badge-in and badge-out to prevent patients from exiting the units. Staff members must be able to recognize an individual’s likes, dislikes, routines and needs and deliver care based on that information.

Hall 1 – (Subacute Care): Comprised of a 42-bed long-term care unit that offers residents daily activities along with a wide range of services and support. Hall 1 is sub-acute rehabilitation with high complexity of needs. This unit is a fast paced and busy atmosphere where the patients’ needs include post operation, post stroke, post cardiac, ambulatory rehab and a lot of wound care and prevention.

Hall 2 – (LTC/Memory Care): Comprised of a 50-bed long-term care unit that offers residents daily activities along with a wide range of services and support. Hall 2 is a standard long-term care unit where patients have different levels of acuity going from high functioning to bed ridden. Diagnosis includes diabetes, cardiac issues, dementia, behavior, etc.

Burk 1 – (Pulmonary Care): Long-term care unit with 17 beds, where residents permanently reside. Most of the residents on this unit are alert and oriented but require assistance with care for chronic and acute illnesses. Additionally, Burk 1 is home to chronic trach patients. The unit hosts many types of beds, to fit the physical needs of a variety of patients.

Burk 2 – (Ventilator): Comprised of 18-23 beds, and acts as home for patients with chronic and complex respiratory problems, and other patients that require long-term care. Many residents of Burk 2 require ventilator support. Staff members must utilize strong organizational and leadership skills to assess patient status, implement clinical nursing interventions to modify symptoms, and develop and implement patient care plans to enhance and improve outcomes. Special training on how to care for patients on vents and how to respond to different alarms on the unit is required.