Patient Care Assistant Intern Full-time at CHRISTUS St. Vincent Health System

POSITION SUMMARY: Responsibilities include attendance at all education and training sessions, active participation in clinical training and skills labs. Expectations include successful completion of instructor led and self paced study programs, assigned reading, online completion of modules including point of care testing and health streams.  On site clinical duties may include returning patient messages, relaying messages to patients from provider, notification of test results and documentation in patient EMR. Intern will observe and assist patients, PCA’s, nurses and providers with patient care in the clinic setting. Upon successful completion of competencies will perform vital signs, and obtain history of chief complaint for visits. Under supervision intern will perform various Point of Care Testing and will document quality control for each test completed.