Patient Sitter

CHI Mercy Health offers the unique opportunity to grow professionally in a supportive highly rewarding work environment and to satisfy your soul in the surroundings of a breathtakingly beautiful natural setting. More than 100 years after the founding of our organization the core values - Compassion Inclusion Integrity Excellence and Collaboration - that guide our interactions with our patients and each other remain the same. In the welcoming embrace of these nurturing communities you will feel immediately at home. 

Roseburg is located on Interstate 5 in Southern Oregon's scenic Douglas County. The community is nestled in a lush forested region known as the 100 Valleys of the Umpqua. In many places you’ll find it hard to maintain a healthy work-life/personal-life balance because the pace of one is indistinguishable from the other. Not here. Life never stops here but it slows to an easy welcome pace. A traffic jam means you missed the yellow and have to wait for the next green. A terrible parking space is the one across from the restaurant instead of in front of it. And the three words you may never hear are “Wow that’s expensive.” Easy is the best way to describe life here. Hard-to-beat works too.

Shift: Casual Part-Time, Days; 12 Hour Shifts

Job Summary:

Primary function of position provides ongoing observation either through in person or through Camera/Monitor technology of patients on suicide prevention watch as a result of identified risk factor and high risk patient fall risk.

Essential Duties Include the Following:

Sitter Duties:

• Must maintain visible contact with the patient at all times
• Promptly communicates all patient requests to assigned staff
• Documents utensils into and out of patient room
• Observes the client for general physical, emotional, and mental conditions and reports all changes in condition
• Maintains a clean and safe environment.
• Provide diversional activities as designated by an assigned staff

Remote Monitoring Duties:

• Provides ongoing observation through Camera/Monitor technology of patients on suicide prevention watch as a result of identified risk factors and high risk fall risk patients.
• Ensures pertinent patient data is brought to the attention of appropriate personnel in a timely manner.
• Notifies the appropriate staff nurse immediately if a change in patient activity occurs.
• Receives report for the Sitter/Monitor staff on the previous shift and gives an accurate report to the oncoming Sitter/Monitor.
• Identifies and immediately reacts appropriately to all life-threatening patient actions.
• Observes and records all patient activity every 15 minutes.

Experience:

• Communication and interpersonal skills in relating to public and peers.
• Organizational skills. 
• Remote monitor training can begin upon successful completion of sitter role competency.