Patient Care Technician (PCT) | Surgical Renal Unit | PRN

Responsibilities

• Provides safe and direct patient care: ambulating, bathing, positioning, entering diet information into the computer system, passing meal trays, feeding and attending to other care needs.
• Responds promptly to patient call lights and special needs, ensures that patient valuables and personal items are properly handled and accounted for.
• Greets all persons coming to the area assigned, answer inquiries, may direct and assist them, take and relay messages, assist with gifts, flowers, and mail for patients, run errands for department staff.
• Ambulates patients and assist them in and out of wheelchairs, measures intakes and outputs, may collect specimens and transport patients as needed.
• Answers telephone, operates paging system, and attends station and direct traffic during emergencies.
• Prepares requisitions for diagnostic and therapeutic services patients as directed and coordinate appointments with respective departments.
• Makes outpatient appointments for discharging patients.
• Requisition of supplies and equipment, maintenance and repairs services and prepares related forms.
• Requests services such as the following as directed: Chaplain, social services, and pastoral care.
• Performs clerical duties related to procedures such as admission, discharge, preparing appropriate charts and forms, transfer, and death.
• Maintains patient rooms in an orderly condition, changes bed linens and provides routine cleaning tasks.

Requirements

• The individual must be able to work the hours specified.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds.

Qualifications

• The individual must have a High School or GED Equivalent.
• The individual must be certified as a Certified Nurse Aide (CNA).
• The minimum age requirement is 16 years old.

Skills

• Visual acuity adequate to perform position duties.
• Effective communication skills.
• Ability to hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

The pay range for this position is listed below. Actual pay rate dependent upon experience. $18.00 - $23.50

Schedule

Rotating days/evenings/nights/weekends/holidays