Patient Care Technician II (CNA), Progressive Care Unit, Nights

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).
• Affords assistance 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.
• Marks and documents patient urinary and stool output.
• Marks and documents patient weight.
• Assists with indwelling urinary catheter care.
• Applies, maintains and removes external urinary catheter devices.
• Performs bladder scans, measures post void residuals and documents.
• Inserts both intermittent and indwelling catheters, documenting volume output.
• Conducts blood glucose monitoring.
• Performs venipuncture for drawing blood samples and established IV access.
• Performs nasal swabs.
• Gathers equipment required and initiates placement IV for the patient as directed by the registered nurse.