Patient Care Technician - Orthopedic Spine Medical Telemetry - Days

Responsibilities

• Patient & Visitor Interactions / Customer Service / Hourly Rounding: Answering patient call lights, answering phones, assisting visitors, performing purposeful hourly rounding.
• Patient Safe Handling / Ambulation / Repositioning: Learning patient safe handling skills, assisting in the ambulation of patients, transferring, lifting, and repositioning patients using Safe Patient Handling equipment.
• Basic Nursing Care / ADLs: Providing 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: Ensuring patient safety during transfers and repositioning.
• Procedures and Treatments: Completing and documenting patient care activities, explaining and performing procedures, notifying appropriate personnel, collecting non-sterile specimens, performing point-of-care blood sugar testing, promoting and maintaining skin integrity.
• Care Companion / Sitter / Observer: Remaining with a patient to ensure their safety as directed by the RN or LPN.
• Department Specific Tasks: Supporting the nursing team with indirect patient care activities, such as restocking equipment, cleaning equipment, answering and relaying telephone calls, filing and maintaining records, retrieving and delivering supplies, specimens, instruments, test results, etc.

Requirements

• Education: 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.
• Licensure: Current BLS certification for the Healthcare Provider issued by either American Heart Association.
• Experience: No experience required.
• Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Excellent interpersonal skills, teamwork, ability to prioritize, ability to receive and follow through on directions, demonstrates concern for and commitment to the welfare of patients and families, attends an in-depth orientation regarding patient care skill tasks, observes all fire and safety procedures and patient experience standards, works under pressure to meet patient care needs.

Qualifications

• 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. When applicable, wear an N95 mask/PAPR and other PPE. Sitting, standing, walking, bending, stooping, pushing, pulling, lifting throughout the shift.
• Technical Skills: Basic computer skills required.