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Posted: 24-Jan-26
Location: San Antonio, Texas
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Internal Number: 323642
CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital - Westover Hills (CSRH-WH) is a 150-bed hospital serving the fastest growing area of San Antonio. Specialized care includes orthopedic and surgical services, ICU, women?s services, a newborn nursery, comprehensive cardiovascular care from diagnostics to open heart surgery, vascular lab, sleep center, emergency services, the CHRISTUS Weight Loss Institute, wound care, rehabilitation, and more. The campus also boasts an Outpatient Imaging Center and three medical plazas, one of which houses our CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency Program and CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Family Health Center.
Summary:
Provides therapy services per appropriate discipline (Physical, Occupational, or Speech Language Pathology) to patients referred, including assessment, treatment plan development and implementation with follow-up and discharge planning. Will assist the Director/Manager in direct oversight of daily patient care operations in outpatient and/or inpatient areas of the department. Will provide staff support, staff development, ensure appropriate patient care assignments, and assist in ensuring appropriate staffing patterns for caseload. This position will constitute 60% patient care/40% administrative duty.
Responsibilities:
- Gathers pertinent data from the chart and other caregivers, discusses with the physician as necessary
- Independently mass all patient types assigned
- Demonstrates ability to recognize additional needs during evaluation; exercises good judgment in decision making when requesting, scheduling, and/or performing additional testing
- Interprets results and formulates relevant, measurable, realistic, and attainable goals
- Reassess patient progress regularly per department policy or when the need arises
- Identifies appropriate equipment, discusses with patient and family, and makes appropriate referral to social service and/or vendor
- Able to independently complete wound assessment and develop an appropriate treatment plan
- Able to independently design a treatment plan that addresses identified problems, deficits, and discharge needs and assist with reducing LOS
- Actively seeks out a diagnosis mix to facilitate the ability to independently treat all diagnosis groups
- Demonstrates skilled expertise when monitoring patients during treatment
- Able to apply reasoning and judgment to skilled observations and report adverse reactions to the physician and/or nursing staff
- Demonstrates a working knowledge of modality usage and contraindications
- Ensures patient safety
- Offers alternatives to the physician when appropriate
- Knowledgeable of available wound care supplies, current protocols, and techniques
- Actively seeks research-based treatments and applies them to daily treatment
- Explains the role of Ward Care Specialist; provides information on what to expect and works to build rapport
- Determines the education needs of the patient and family
Requirements:
- Master's Degree required
- BLS required
Work Schedule:
5 Days - 8 Hours
Work Type:
Full Time