Patient Care Technician - All Shifts

Responsibilities

• Provides personal hygiene to patients: bathes, dresses and toilets patients as indicated by their needs including hair care, shaving and assists patients with personal and dental hygiene. Assures the patients are properly and comfortably clothed.
• Obtains/records vital signs per policy
• Accurately documents care given to patients in the electronic medical record (EMR)
• Informs charge/bedside nurse of abnormal vital signs (per policy).
• Promotes comfort, security and assists in the rehabilitation plan within their scope of practice including ambulation, simple range of motion and assistance with activities of daily living.
• Assists in fall prevention per patient’s plan of care including activating/responding to alarms.
• Follows safe patient handling guidelines to position/mobilize patients. Safely transfers patients according to guidelines using patient lifts.
• Promptly responds to patient communication system (call lights), bed/chair alarms and unit communication system.
• Fosters teamwork and interacts with peers to maintain an ongoing working rapport across all shifts.
• Performs hourly/purposeful rounding per hospital policy.
• Adheres to “No Pass Zone” policy for patient safety.
• Laundering swing bed patient laundry during HS hours as per request.
• Provides diversional activities for swing bed patients.
• Orients and instructs new personnel to policies and procedures and unit operations
• Adheres to infection control standards to prevent the spread of infection.
• Complies with departmental policies and procedures.
• Complies with The Joint Commission regulations and guidelines.
• Collections specimens within scope of practice and per policy.
• Attends in-services to keep current and knowledgeable; remains compliant with requirement of mandatories in the learning management system as assigned by nurse educators or Director of Inpatient Nursing.