Patient Care Technician - PRN

Currently hiring for day and night shifts.

Summary of Duties

• Provides activities of daily living and other specified patient care procedures for the adult and geriatric patient.

Essential Job Functions

• Provides for patient’s activities of daily living with either total or partial assistance as directed by patient condition:
  • Bath or shower
  • Oral and/or denture care
  • Perineal care
  • Turning and repositioning every two hours or greater as indicated by patient need
  • Ambulation
  • Meal assistance
• Performs indirect patient care tasks and unit functions, including but not limited to:
  • Answers call lights and relays information promptly to the nurses
  • Runs errands to obtain medications, supplies, etc.
  • Transports specimens
  • Inventories supplies; compiles list of needed supplies
  • Stocks supplies and patient meds when delivered to facility
  • Discharge preparation (packing personal items, transports patient, etc.)
  • Cleans and maintains unit and patient equipment
  • Assists patients with elimination needs
  • Performs simple range of motion
  • Performs finger stick blood glucose test
  • Performs intake and output measurements (oral, IV, NG, drains, etc.)
  • Performs vital sign measurements
  • Obtains 12‑lead EKGs
  • Assists physicians and nurses with special procedures
  • Assists with stocking of supplies and assesses inventory needs for medical and general supplies in coordination with the Administrative Secretary/Materials Management Coordinator and/or other management staff, following hospital purchasing protocols
  • Cleans and stores dirty hospital equipment for future patient use
  • Performs other duties as assigned

Education

High school diploma or GED equivalent required.

Experience

Minimum of one year of patient care experience required.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to lift 50 lb. occasionally, 20 lb. frequently, and 10 lb. constantly.
• Ability to walk and stand 80 % of an 8 to 12 hour shift.
• Ability to push/pull up to 200 lb. to position patients, move beds, carts, etc., and aid patients in ambulation.
• Must possess sight/hearing senses or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately, so that the requirements of this position can be fully met.