Patient Care Technician (PCT)

Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• Assists patient with or performs Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
• Obtains and records Vital Signs and weights per policy
• Assists patients with ambulation and transfers
• Positions patients in correct body alignment in and out of bed
• Applies adaptive equipment as ordered
• Cares for personal belongings
• Assists physician and/or licensed nurse with treatments and procedures as needed
• Makes both occupied and unoccupied beds
• Accompanies patients when transported outside the center for appointments as requested
• Ensures patients are ready for scheduled rehab therapy and transports patients to rehab area
• Notifies licensed nurse if patient identification is missing
• Participates in the care planning process and implements care according to care plan
• Performs skin care treatments, as permitted by state regulation
• Applies simple clean dressings, slings, stockings, and support bandages, under direction of the licensed nurse, as permitted by state regulation
• Feeds or assists patients with meals and provides additional nourishment and hydration per care plan
• Records patient's oral intake and output
• Uses Point Click Care (PCC -POC) according to the Business Processes, if applicable
• Answers call light or bell promptly, delivers messages, cleans areas of spillage or accidents
• Uses Standard precautions when caring for all patients. Adheres to Contact and/or Droplet Precautions as indicated
• Participates in the orientation of new nursing assistants
• Reports changes in patient's condition, patient/family concerns or complaints to charge nurse and/or supervisor
• Collects and bags soiled linen and delivers to dirty linen area
• Obtains clean linens and supplies from supply areas, cleans utility rooms, kitchen areas and all other nursing areas, as assigned
• Cleans patient equipment as assigned
• Transfers patient's belongings and equipment as directed, and assists with postmortem care
• Assists with patient discharge as requested