Patient Care Tech (PCT) - Ortho

About the role

Be the heart of compassionate care in a patient care support role with us! In this vital role, you'll provide essential assistance and comfort to patients, ensuring they receive the best possible experience during their healthcare journey. If you’re dedicated, empathetic, and ready to make a positive impact on patients' lives, we encourage you to apply today and become a crucial part of our caring team!

Responsibilities

• Provide technical, multi-skilled direct and indirect patient care activities.
• Report all deviations from expected patient parameters to the registered nurse.
• Collaborate and cooperate with care team members to ensure consistency and quality of care.
• Assist nursing personnel in responding to various emergency patient situations.
• Assist patients in activities of daily living by feeding, bathing, toileting and other personal hygiene regimes.
• Follow departmental policies, procedures and objectives; continuous improvement initiatives; safety environmental and infection control standards.
• Enhance personal growth through participation in workshops, educational programs, in-service meetings and reviewing current literature.
• Perform other tasks as assigned (see task list).

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED.
• Graduation from a school of practical nursing ...OR...
• Completion of one of the following: A Certified PCA/PCT Program, A Certified Nurse Assistant Program or equivalent training, A Medical Assistant Program, An EMT program, A phlebotomy training program.

Skills

• With six (6) months direct patient care experience, preferred.
• Good analytical and observational problem-solving skills.
• Maintains confidentiality.
• Physical ability to regularly (80-90% of work time) walk and stand; lift soiled linens and move equipment as necessary; assist patients in repositioning, bed to stretcher transferring, basic activities of daily living and maintenance locomotion requiring lifting (very heavy 60+ pounds), bending, pulling, pushing, standing and walking.
• Visual acuity and manual dexterity.
• Ability to perform routine clerical functions such as answering telephones, taking messages and basic retrieval of computer information.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match.
• Generous paid time off (PTO).
• Career development and continuing education opportunities.
• Health savings accounts, healthcare C dependent flexible spending accounts.
• Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program.
• Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long term care, elder C childcare, auto C home insurance.

Summary Description

Note: Refer to task addenda specific to PCS and OR, attached.

Facility Description

DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital is DMC’s largest hospital, offering a comprehensive heart center, cancer care, gerontology, emergency medicine, obstetrics/gynecology and cosmetic services. Sinai-Grace’s joint replacement program features a revolutionary minimally invasive knee and hip replacement surgery that attracts patients from all over the country. Sinai-Grace operates more than 21 outpatient care sites and ambulatory surgery centers throughout Wayne and Oakland Counties and is one of 10 hospitals in the nation to be awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to help set the standards of cardiac care for hospitals and physicians throughout the nation.

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