Patient Care Technician II - 7B Medical Acute Care

About the role

Under the direct supervision of a Registered Nurse, the PCT II performs multi-skilled activities to support a decentralized patient-centered approach to patient care and achieve desired outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provides nursing care to patients using the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation)
• Directs and leads other assigned team members and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members to provide age/developmentally appropriate care in accordance with nursing standards of care and practice
• Provides patient/family centered care using the nursing process and focusing on the physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural, religious, and environmental needs, including assessment, development of nursing diagnoses, outcome identification, planning, implementation of interventions, coordination of care, health teaching and promotion, and evaluation of goals and interventions consistent with MUSC policies
• Maintains a safe, therapeutic, and healing environment through ensuring patient privacy and responsive, respectful, accepting, and professional behavior
• Demonstrates ability to function in a professional setting through active participation in a professional practice model, including shared governance, adherence to standards of care, participation in peer review, professional development promoting leadership and clinical excellence, effective team skills, autonomous practice, and acknowledgment of accountability for actions and critical thinking
• Coordinates the effective and efficient delivery of patient care services through the application of care management principles
• Identifies clinical priorities and initiates action to improve patient outcomes
• Promotes a healthy work environment and accepts personal responsibility for professional growth

Requirements

• At least 1 year work experience in a .6fte PCT I position at MUSC CHS OR 1 year of patient care work experience in a health care facility OR a college degree OR active enrollment in nursing school with completion of Nursing Fundamentals from an accredited institution OR active enrollment in a healthcare related field from an accredited institution OR a Nursing Assistant or Medical Assistant, or equivalent training
• Basic Life Support required within 2 weeks of hire and must be maintained thereafter; current American Heart Association (AHA) BLS certification or American Red Cross BLS for Healthcare Providers certification is required

Physical and mental requirements

• Ability to perform job functions while standing, sitting, and walking (continuous)
• Ability to climb stairs (infrequent)
• Ability to work indoors (continuous); outside in temperature extremes (infrequent)
• Ability to work from elevated areas (frequent) and in confined/cramped spaces (frequent)
• Ability to perform job functions from kneeling positions (infrequent)
• Ability to bend at the waist (continuous); twist at the waist (frequent); squat and perform job functions (frequent)
• Ability to perform "pinching" operations (frequent); gross motor activities with fingers and hands (continuous); firm grasping with fingers and hands (continuous); fine manipulation with fingers and hands (continuous)
• Ability to reach overhead (frequent); reach in all directions (continuous)
• Ability to perform repetitive motions with hands/wrists/elbows and shoulders (continuous)
• Ability to fully use both legs (continuous); use lower extremities for balance and coordination (frequent)
• Ability to lift and carry 50 lbs. unassisted (infrequent); lift/lower objects 50 lbs. from/to floor from/to 36 inches unassisted (infrequent); lift from 36" to overhead 25 lbs. (infrequent)
• Ability to exert up to 50 lbs. of force (frequent) — examples: To transfer a 100 lb. patient that cannot assist requires 50 lbs. of force; for every 100 additional pounds, assistance required from another healthcare worker; 20 lbs. force to push a 400 lb. patient in a wheelchair on carpet; 25 lbs. force to push a stretcher with a patient with one hand
• Ability to maintain 20/40 vision, corrected, in one eye or with both eyes (continuous); see and recognize objects close at hand or at a distance (continuous); match or discriminate between colors (continuous); determine distance/relationship between objects (depth perception, continuous); good peripheral vision (continuous)
• Ability to maintain hearing acuity, with correction (continuous)
• Ability to perform gross motor functions with frequent fine motor movements (continuous)
• Ability to deal effectively with stressful situations (continuous)
• Ability to work rotating shifts (frequent) and overtime as required (frequent)
• Ability to work in a latex safe environment (continuous)
• Ability to maintain tactile sensory function (continuous)
• Ability to be qualified physically for respirator use, initially and as required (continuous, selected positions)