Patient Care Technician - days- part time- Float Pool

Job Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent required.

Current Maryland state certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) or Geriatric Nursing Assistant (GNA) required.

No previous experience required; previous direct patient care experience in a health care facility preferred.

Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.

Principal Responsibilities And Tasks

• Performs testing and manages the care of the patient based on results achieved and clinical findings.
• Records patient care along the continuum, including activities of daily living (ADLs): feeding, bathing, dressing, toileting and transferring.
• Completes, documents and reports patient vital signs (temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiration, oxygen saturation and reported pain level).
• Aids in admission, transfer and discharge of patients.
• Participates in cost effective strategies to optimize patient outcomes.
• Promotes patient safety including fall prevention.
• Maintains order and appearance of patient rooms and work area.
• Maintains patient care supplies and linen.
• Provides post-mortem care.
• Collaborates with members of the health care team to carry out the plan of care, including reporting observed changes in patients’ condition.
• Ensures patient comfort relative to their pain status.
• Measures and documents dietary intake and patient urinary and stool output. Documents calorie count. Measures and documents patient weight.
• Conducts indwelling urinary catheter care. Applies, maintains and removes external urinary catheter devices.
• Conducts blood glucose monitoring.
• Provides wound care to promote healing and maintain structural integrity of the skin.
• Applies, maintains and removes orthopedic/rehab device care: e.g. braces, splints, CPM.
• Dons/doffs compression wraps/stockings.
• Participates in hourly patient rounding in collaboration with the health care team.
• Responds to patient triggered alarms, including call light, chair alarm, bed alarm, tele-sitter alarm, etc.
• Complies with the The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals within scope of practice.
• Detects, reports, and acts to avoid or correct safety risks. Reports adverse events and near misses to appropriate management authority.
• Provides professional vigilance to assigned patients, including when assigned as a patient safety companion.
• Improves patient flow and prevents care delays.
• Performs other duties as assigned.