Cookeville Regional Medical Center Hiring for Patient Care Associate- Nightshift at Cookeville, TN Full Time

Cookeville Regional Medical Center is seeking Full-Time Patient Care Associate’s to join our team!

The Patient Care Associate is responsible for performing basic and advanced Nursing Assistant skills under the direct supervision of an RN/LPN according to established policies, procedures, and guidelines within the department and the Medical Center. Other duties as assigned.

Education: High school diploma or GED required. CNA certification preferred. Basic Life Support preferred upon hire but required within 6 months of hire.

About Cookeville Regional Medical Center

Serving the area since 1950, Cookeville Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is a progressive 247-bed regional referral center serving more than 350,000 residents in the Upper Cumberland region of middle Tennessee. With almost 200 physicians in 40 different medical and surgical specialties, Cookeville Regional offers patients here the same kind of care that they could expect in a larger metropolitan area including specialty care such as cardiology, electrophysiology, cardiac and thoracic surgery, vascular surgery, pulmonology, cancer treatment, orthopedics, physical rehabilitation and neurosurgery. The medical center’s Rehabilitation Center is located within a block of the hospital and includes both outpatient services and a 20-bed inpatient unit. As a city-owned medical center, CRMC is financially independent, reinvesting millions of dollars each year into new and improved services. As a matter of fact, CRMC has reinvested more than $42 million over the past five years to help meet the healthcare needs of the region.

CRMC is recognized as Tennessee’s only hospital to receive the America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Orthopedic Surgery AwardTM for nine consecutive years and Tennessee’s only hospital to receive the Cardiac Surgery Excellence AwardTM for three consecutive years, according to Healthgrades’ 2020 national . CRMC has also earned the Commitment Award from the Tennessee Center for Performance Excellence (TNCPE), patterned after the esteemed national Baldrige Performance Excellence Program. Accredited by the Joint Commission,

CRMC also boasts the following achievements:

• Specialty certification by the Joint Commission for sepsis treatment and hip fracture repair
• Advanced certification as a primary stroke center by the Joint Commission
• Accredited cancer program by the American Cancer of Surgeon’s Commission on Cancer
• Region’s only accredited chest pain center with primary PCI by the American College of Cardiology Accreditation Services
• Accredited comprehensive bariatric surgery program by the American College of Surgeons

KEY SERVICES
The Heart & Vascular Center
The Cancer Center
The Rehabilitation Center
(inpatient and outpatient physical and occupational therapy)
The Birthing Center
Primary Stroke Center
Orthopedics & Spine Surgery
Robotics Surgery Program
Breast Center
Advanced Wound Care Center

GENERAL INFORMATION
247 beds 2,298 employees
190 physicians 146 volunteers

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $14.00 – $16.72 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Physical setting:

• Hospital

Schedule:

• 12 hour shift
• Night shift

Work Location: In person