Patient Care Technician I- Inpatient, 6 East, Per Diem
- items. Should include all bullet points from responsibilities. There's a long list. We'll need to capture them.
Qualifications: There's "II. Position Qualifications:" with License/Certification/Education, Experience/Skills, etc. Also later there is another qualifications block for PCT II? Actually after responsibilities there is "II. Position Qualifications:" then later after responsibilities again there is "License/Certification/Education: Required: Minimum of a high school education or GED. Current Basic Life Support. Experience/Skills: 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..." That seems to be for PCT II? Actually the posting seems to be for Patient Care Technician I? The first qualifications block is for PCT I. The second block maybe for PCT II? But the posting is for Patient Care Technician I? The title not given but likely Patient Care Technician I. However we need to include qualifications as per posting. We should combine? The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include both qualification sections? But they are somewhat overlapping. The second qualification block appears under "Job Description I. Major Responsibilities:" then later "License/Certification/Education: Required: Minimum of a high school education or GED. Current Basic Life Support. Experience/Skills: 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..." That seems to be for a different role (PCT II). However the posting includes both? Actually the text seems to have duplicated sections: first part includes responsibilities and qualifications for PCT I, then later repeats responsibilities and adds qualifications for PCT II. Since we must preserve all substantive info, we should include both sets? But we need to avoid duplication? The instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." Duplicated lines should be removed. The responsibilities appear duplicated exactly; we should keep only one copy. The qualifications appear not identical; first is for PCT I, second is for PCT II (requires PCT I experience). Since they are different, we should keep both? But they are under same job posting? Might be a mistake but we must preserve all substantive info. However we need to avoid creating sections with filler. We could include a Qualifications section that includes both sets? Might be confusing. Better to follow the posting: after responsibilities, there is "II. Position Qualifications:" then details for PCT I. Then later after repeating responsibilities, there is another qualifications block (maybe for PCT II). Since the posting includes both, we should include both. But we need to decide how to structure: maybe we can have a Qualifications section that includes both sets of requirements (PCT I and PCT II). However the instruction says "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we can combine.
Thus we will create sections:
- About the role (paragraph)
- Responsibilities (ul list)
- Qualifications (maybe split into Education/License, Experience/Skills) but we can just list as ul.
- Benefits (signing bonus)
- Pay (hiring range etc)
- Schedule (holidays, weekends, shift)
We should not include Skills separate if we already have in Qualifications. But we could still have Skills section if there are specific skills listed. The qualifications include skills like Basic computer skills, Basic Medical Terminology knowledge, ability to remain calm, etc. Also later includes Medical Terminology, Computer skills, Strong interpersonal skills, problem-solving abilities, etc. We could create a Skills section pulling those. But to avoid many thin sections, we can incorporate skills into Qualifications.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
Now craft HTML.
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for prose. We must not include or . Just fragment. Let's extract About the role prose: "Everyone Is a Caregiver At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day." Also earlier: "Under the direction of the appropriate licensed clinician, the Patient Care Technician I performs a variety of patient care activities. Receives workplace education and training to assist members of the healthcare team in the care of patients." We can combine into one paragraph. Now Responsibilities list: Need to extract bullet points from the first Major Responsibilities block (the longer one). Let's list them: - 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, respiration, blood pressure and pulse oxymetry). - Measures and records patients’ weights and heights. - Performs EKG’s, Point of Care (POC) tests and bladder scanning. - Collects, labels and prepares specimens for transport to lab. - 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 equipment and supplies, helping to position patient, providing the patient with emotional support, and cleaning up equipment and supplies following the treatment and/or procedure. - Observes, measures, records oral food and fluid intake. - 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 as needed. - 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. - 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 should keep as list items. Now Qualifications: We have two sets. Let's combine. First set (PCT I): - License/Certification/Education: Required: Minimum of a high school education or GED. Basic Life Support certification within 30-days as a condition of employment. - Experience/Skills: Required: Ability to read, write and communicate in English in a clear and concise manner. Basic computer skills. Basic Medical Terminology knowledge. Must be able to remain calm when under stress or in emergency situations. Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements. Department-specific competencies and their measurements will be developed and maintained in the individual departments. The competencies will be maintained and attached to the departmental job description. Responsible managers will review competencies with position incumbents. Second set (PCT II?): - License/Certification/Education: Required: Minimum of a high school education or GED. Current Basic Life Support. - Experience/Skills: 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. 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
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