Patient Care Technician, (PCT) - Acute Care/ICU, Part Time, Night Shift

What You Will Be Doing

• Answers signal lights and bells to determine patients’ needs.
• Baths, dresses, and undresses patients.
• Serves and collects food trays and feeds patients requiring help.
• Transports patients to treatment units, using wheelchair, stretcher, bed, or may assist them to walk.
• Ambulates patients as needed.
• Drapes patients for examinations and treatments, and remains with patients, performing such duties as holding instruments and adjusting lights.
• Tidies and cleans patients’ rooms.
• Washes and dresses bodies of deceased persons.
• Changes bed linens, runs errands, directs visitors, and answers telephones.
• Takes and records blood pressure, temperature, pulse and respiration rates, glucose levels, and food and liquid intake and output as directed.
• Reports unusual findings to nurse.
• Aids in turning and repositioning patients as needed.
• Reports to RN any abnormal vital signs, skin breakdown, decline in mentation or other observed changes.
• Enters data into computer system.
• Placed telemetry electrodes accurately when ordered.
• Collects urine and stool specimens for lab, runs guiac testing.

What You Will Bring To The Role

• Current Washington State Nursing Assistant Certification.
• Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support Certification.
• 3 to 6 months previous CNA experience preferred.
• High School Diploma or G.E.D. preferred.

Pay

Salary: $21.12/hr - $31.37/hr
Night Differential: $2.25
Evening Differential: $1.65
Weekend Differential: $1.50

Schedule

Onsite Schedule: 0.6 FTE / Night Shift