Patient Care Technician Medical Telemetry, Evenings

Responsibilities

• Patient & Visitor Interactions / Customer Service / Hourly Rounding: Answer patient call lights, answer phones, assist visitors, perform purposeful hourly rounding.
• Patient Safe Handling / Ambulation / Repositioning: Learn patient safe handling skills, assist in ambulation, assist nursing staff with transferring, lifting, and repositioning patients using Safe Patient Handling equipment.
• Basic Nursing Care / ADLs: Provide basic care including bathing, grooming, oral care, eating, feeding, using bedpan or urinal, positioning, answering and responding to patient call lights, bed making, etc., under the supervision of a RN/LPN.
• Patient Safe Handling / Ambulation / Repositioning: Assist with room set up, welcoming new patients, discharging and/or transferring patients, providing patient/family orientation to room and hospital.
• Procedures and Treatments: Accurately complete and document patient care activities, explain and perform procedures, notify appropriate personnel of responses and questions, collect non-sterile specimens, perform point of care patient blood sugar testing, promote and maintain skin integrity.
• Care Companion / Sitter / Observer: Remain with a patient as needed to keep the patient safe.
• Department Specific Tasks: Support the nursing team with indirect patient care activities such as restocking equipment/linens, cleaning equipment, answering and relaying telephone calls, filing and maintaining records, retrieving and delivering supplies, specimens, instruments, test results, etc.

Requirements

• Minimum Education Requirements: Completion of an accredited certified nursing assistant (CNA) training course preferred, completion of at least one nursing clinical rotation in medical or surgical nursing preferred.
• Minimum Licensure Requirements: Current BLS certification for the Healthcare Provider issued by either American Heart Association.
• Experience Details: No Experience Required.
• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Excellent interpersonal skills including teamwork, ability to prioritize, ability to receive and follow through on directions. Demonstrates concern for and commitment to the welfare of our patient and families. Trained in fire and safety procedures and patient experience standards.
• Physical Demands: When in the clinical environment, must utilize appropriate patient movement equipment for patient-lifting and transfers when the transfer is a non-emergency situation. In an urgent event, may need to assist with lifting up to 50 pounds. Wear an N95 mask/PAPR and other PPE. Sit, stand, walk, bend, stoop, push, pull, lift throughout the shift.
• Technical Skills: Basic computer skills required.