Patient Care Technician - Med/Surg - SOMC - FT Days

Responsibilities

• Provides patient care, based on physical, psychosocial, education, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the age of the guests/patients served in assigned service
• Promotes patient satisfaction, comfort and safety
• Achieves desired outcomes under the direction and supervision of the registered nurse
• Communicates with patients, nursing colleagues and other members of the health care team regarding patient's status and rendered care
• Takes self-directed or self-motivated initiative to do more than is expected or required in the job, acting before being required to by events, improving job performance, and/or creating new opportunities
• Participates in interdisciplinary collaboration of our patient's plan of care from admission to discharge to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care
• Welcomes patients and checks for proper identification bracelets
• Prepares the patient for assessment/admission, physical examination and procedures
• Recognizes and responds to opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction
• Demonstrates the knowledge and skill necessary to provide care appropriate to age of patients on the unit
• Obtains clinical data, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, O2 saturation and documents findings in patient record and notifies RN immediately of abnormal results
• Demonstrates a reliable and dependable ability to follow through with designated responsibilities in the collecting, labeling, and transporting of specimens to the proper area at the appropriate time: always correctly labels type of specimen collected, including patients name and room number
• Performs EKG for patients as directed
• Assures the presence, functionality and cleanliness of all necessary equipment. Checks and maintains code cart, O2, and other emergency medical equipment as directed
• Applies bandages, slings, compression boots and hypothermia blankets according to standard as directed by RN
• Assists in the transport of patient to departments or units upon request
• Assists with preparation as necessary assuring the patient is assisted with meals/ or fed as needed
• Checks inventory of assigned area and restocks as directed
• Ensures room environment is prepared for admission
• Provides direct hygiene and comfort care to patients including bathing, toileting, oral hygiene, incontinent care, and bed making
• Assists the patients with dressing/undressing and placing patient belongings in the appropriate bag labeled with completed property checklist
• Makes sure the return of clothing to family of patient
• Performs and documents glucose finger sticks and collects other specimens as directed
• Provides post mortem care
• Obtains and documents patient weights and observes and documents patient's intake and output
• Maintains a safe patient environment by answering call lights promptly, communicating with the RN immediately for any change in the patient's condition
• Identifies the needs of the patient population served and modifies and delivers care that is specific to those needs not limited to (i.e., age, culture, language, hearing and/or visually impaired, etc.)

Qualifications

• High School diploma, general equivalency diploma (GED), and/or GED equivalent programs
• Completion of one of the following: Certified Nursing Assistant, Medical Assistant or Patient Care Technician program or Fundamentals of Nursing program from an accredited school of nursing or HMH PCT Apprenticeship Program
• Or equivalent medical background experience, such as EMT, Home Health Aide, CMA, MA, PCT, Nursing Assistant
• The ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing patient needs, a strong sense of accountability for improving the lives of our patients and their caregivers, an exceptional focus on teamwork, dedication to ongoing education and the ability and passion to deliver the highest quality of care and service based on a strong sense of patient focus are all required