At Sharon Regional Medical Center, we are committed to improving the health of our communities by delivering exceptional, personalized health care with dignity, compassion, and respect. Our continued focus on the patient experience informs our caregivers about how to provide care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient and family preferences, needs and values.
We dedicate ourselves in the communities we serve to delivering affordable health care to all and being responsible partners. No matter what your role, as a member of the Steward family, you are a specialist in making every patient and family feel right at home, every co-worker a key to our success, and every referring practice, a team of prized colleagues.
In support of this, we commit ourselves to the following values:
Compassion
Accountability
Respect
Excellence
Stewardship
If you are seeking a fast-paced, challenging position in an organization committed to achieving and maintaining a standard of excellence in all we do, our organization may be a good fit for you.
Position Purpose:
In each of our hospitals, the Patient Safety Observer role exists to maintain a safe environment for the patients whom the Observer is assigned to constantly monitor without distraction. Patients requiring observers are those who are considered at high-risk either to themselves or others.
Job Summary:
The Patient Safety Observer is required to always maintain an unobstructed view of the patient. This includes when in the bathroom and accompanying the patient to any testing. The Patient Safety Observer monitors the safety of the patient and reports any changes to the Registered Nurse overseeing the patient’s care.
Requirements:
- High-school graduate or equivalent
- CPR/BLS REQUIRED UPON HIRE, AHA OR ARC.
- Previous experience in a hospital or nursing home setting is a plus.
- Completion of the Patient Safety Observer training within the first week of hire and prior to any patient observation assignments.
- Successful completion of ‘Care of the Aggressive Patient’ training provided by the facility upon hire.
- Completion of unit orientation for each unit to which they will be assigned.
Benefits:
- Medical, Dental and Vision
- 401K
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Vacation and Paid Sick time
About Steward Health Care
Over a decade ago, Steward Health Care System emerged as a different kind of health care company designed to usher in a new era of wellness. One that provides our patients better, more proactive care at a sustainable cost, our providers unrivaled coordination of care, and our communities greater prosperity and stability.
As the country’s largest physician-led, tax-paying, integrated health care system, our doctors can be certain that we share their interests and those of their patients. Together we are on a mission to revolutionize the way health care is delivered - creating healthier lives, thriving communities and a better world.
Based in Dallas, Steward currently operates 39 hospitals across Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Utah.
For more information, visit www.steward.org.
Steward Health Care is proud to be a minority, physician-owned organization. Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are at the foundation of the care we provide, the community services we support and all our employment practices. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or expression or any other non-job-related characteristic.
