Patient Care Technician I - Inpatient, 4 West, 24 hour, Evenings
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Requirements: Could be license/certification/education: "Required: Minimum of a high school education or GED. Current Basic Life Support." Also maybe "Required: Demonstrated competency attainment in the Patient Care Technician I level, work a minimum of 800 hours and at least 6 months as a PCA I. Prior inpatient/outpatient care experience or clinical care training." That seems like qualifications/experience.
Qualifications: Could be the same as requirements? But we need separate sections if content distinct. The posting separates "II. Position Qualifications:" which includes education, experience/skills, etc. We could treat that as Qualifications. Requirements could be license/certification/education? But the instructions: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need to decide what goes where.
We have content:
- Education: Minimum of a high school education or GED.
- Certification: Current Basic Life Support.
- Experience: Demonstrated competency attainment in the Patient Care Technician I level, work a minimum of 800 hours and at least 6 months as a PCA I. Prior inpatient/outpatient care experience or clinical care training.
- Skills: Ability to read, write and communicate in English in a clear and concise manner. Medical Terminology. Computer skills. Strong interpersonal skills to gather information from individuals, build relationships that support collaborative work within the department and across the organization and provide exceptional service to patients. Must have proven problem-solving abilities for routine situations. Must be able to remain calm when under stress or in emergency situations.
Thus we can map:
Requirements: Education + Certification (maybe also experience? but experience often under Qualifications). However we can put experience under Qualifications. Skills under Skills.
Qualifications: Experience and maybe also "Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination..." but that's generic.
Skills: The list of skills.
Benefits: Signing bonus maybe. Also union info? Could include "Union: SHARE (State Healthcare and Research Employees)". That's a benefit? Might be considered benefit. Also maybe "This position may have a signing bonus available". We'll include that.
Pay: Hiring range $18.92 - $26.96 (based on full time 40 hrs). Note about prorated.
Schedule: Holidays - Every Other Holiday, Weekends - Every Other Weekend Scheduled Hours: 15:00 - 23:30 Shift: 2 - Evening Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America) Hours: 24 Cost Center: ... maybe not needed. But schedule details: shift evenings 15:00-23:30, 8 hours, every other weekend/holiday. Also "Hours: 24" maybe means 24 hours per week? Actually "Hours: 24" maybe part-time? The schedule details: "Scheduled Hours: 15:00 - 23:30 Shift: 2 - Evening Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America) Hours: 24". Could be 24 hours per week? We'll include shift and hours.
We must not include boilerplate like "Exemption Status: Non-Exempt" maybe not needed but could be included under About? Probably not needed. The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Exemption status is not boilerplate but maybe metadata; could be omitted or included in a short p. The instruction says: "Do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it." So we could include a short p for metadata like Exemption Status, Union, Cost Center, etc. But better to drop minor metadata unless needed for schedule/pay. We'll keep schedule and pay. We'll output HTML fragment:
About the role
Under the direction of the appropriate licensed clinician, and in keeping with unit specific standards, provides patient care to meet the personal needs and comfort of patients; and assists members of the healthcare team. In order to become a PCT II a caregiver must meet the full competencies outlined by the Nursing Professional Practice. As an integral member of the patient care team, serves both internal and external customers including patients, nurses, physicians and other colleagues who support the delivery of care and services.
Everyone is a caregiver at UMass Memorial Health – regardless of title or responsibilities – contributing to exceptional patient care, academic excellence, and leading-edge research in a relentless pursuit of healing for patients, community, and each other.
But we must not invent; the "Everyone is a caregiver" paragraph is present. So we can include that as part of About the role. Responsibilities: list all duties from PCT II major responsibilities. We'll need to copy them exactly as bullet points. Let's extract the list from the PCT II responsibilities: - Provides clear, timely communication to the RN regarding observations and changes seen in patients. Examples, but not limited to changes in skin condition, vital signs, and/or mental status. - Provides constant observation of high-risk patients as assigned by the Resource Nurse or designee. - Participates in the development and maintenance of a safe environment. - Works to utilize interventions to de-escalate patients and if unsuccessful participates in restraints in accordance with training and education as directed. - Assists patient with daily living activities such as personal hygiene, ambulating, meals and nourishment. - Assists in moving, lifting, positioning, and transporting patients by utilizing proper safety techniques and body mechanics in all work-related activities. - Maintains patient safety by performing patient safety checks, utilizing fall prevention alternative devices/strategies as directed, and following the Restraint Policy standards when caring for a restrained patient. - Takes and records vital signs (temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure and pulse oxymetry). - Measures and records patients’ height and weight. - Performs EKG’s, performs Point of Care (POC) tests and bladder scanning according to hospital standards. - Collects, labels and prepares specimens for transport to lab. - Phlebotomy in certain locations. - Performs other selected unit specific procedures such as battery changes for telemetry units, checking status of unit equipment, cleaning equipment between patients and proper storage of supplies. - Assists RN/Licensed Independent Practitioner with treatments and procedures by preparing patient; obtaining and setting up equipment and supplies, such as intravenous and hemodynamic lines, and utilize sterile technique when indicated. - Help in positioning the patient and providing the patient with emotional support. - Clean up equipment and supplies following the treatment and/or procedure. - Observes, measures, records oral food and fluid intake. - Sets up full strength tube feeding solutions and refills tube feeding bags as directed. - Empties and records output, as approved, from a variety of sources, e.g., Foley catheter, ostomy appliances and drainage systems. - Performs ostomy care on established ostomate patients as directed. - Demonstrates sensitivity and responsiveness to patients’ needs by acting as a source of information and approaches all interactions with the intention of building positive rapport and relationships. - Provides respectful, culturally and age-appropriate communication with patients, staff, family, visitors and others. - Replenishes patient and unit supplies and equipment. - Requests assistance from identified resources when more direction is needed. - Keeps current with hospital and unit changes by reading communication boards and/or books, bulletin boards, posted notices and reads and responds to UMMHC e mails on a regular basis. - Has the ability to precept new Patient Care Technicians. - Standard Staffing Level Responsibilities: Complies with established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives. - Attends variety of meetings, conferences, seminars as required or directed. - Demonstrates use of Quality Improvement in daily operations. - Complies with all health and safety regulations and requirements. - Respects diverse views and approaches, demonstrates Standards of Respect, and contributes to creating and maintaining an environment of professionalism, tolerance, civility and acceptance toward all employees, patients, and visitors. - Maintains, regular, reliable, and predictable attendance. - Performs other similar and related duties as required or directed. We need to ensure we don't include duplicated lines. The list includes some duplicates? Not really. Now Requirements: Education and certification. - Minimum of a high school education or GED. - Current Basic Life Support certification. We could also include "Required: Minimum of a high school education or GED. Basic Life Support certification within 30-days