Patient Care Technician Medical Surgical Intermediate Part Time Nights

About the role

Part-time Nights 6am-6:30pm with rotating weekends. CDH Med/Surg Intermediate (3C) - 26 bed fast paced, high acuity Intermediate Medical Surgical Unit. Highly engaged staff active in shared governance and committed to multidisciplinary rounds at the bedside.

Responsibilities

• Performs basic nursing care activities as delegated and supervised by an RN, including monitoring vital signs, taking blood glucose measurements, and recording intake and output
• Assists patients with tending to personal care and activities of daily living, including bathing, grooming and eating
• Reports abnormal findings or changes in physical, mental and emotional conditions to nursing staff
• Assists with keeping patient rooms clean and orderly
• Demonstrates flexibility, organization, and multi-tasking
• Able to function under stressful situations
• Utilizes critical thinking skills to successfully demonstrate the ability to prioritize and complete unit work quickly as the needs of the unit, patients and staff change
• Serves as liaison between patient care units and all other patient related departments
• Answers telephone, intercom and call lights in a polite manner using appropriate telephone etiquette and communicates information to the appropriate staff/family/patient
• Manages the overall unit workflow in concert with the charge RN and/or assistant manager, on an as needed basis
• Performs pre-census and validates daily admission, discharge and census lists, on an as needed basis

Qualifications

Required:

• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Certified Nursing Assistant, Certified Medical Assistant, Emergency Medical Technician, or nursing school students with one semester of clinical completed
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS)

Preferred:

• Phlebotomy experience
• Graduate of an accredited Nursing Assistant program or Graduate of Phlebotomy course

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement and loan forgiveness
• 401(k) matching
• Lifecycle benefits
• Sign-on bonus eligibility (internal employees and rehires who left Northwestern Medicine within 1 year are not eligible; new graduate internal employees seeking their first licensed clinical position at NM may be eligible depending upon the job family)