Patient Care Technician - Ortho Trauma Med-Surg * Nights - 24hrs/wk

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• Patient Care Technician - Ortho Trauma Med-Surg \* Nights - 24hrs/wk Requisition #: req12882 Shift: Nights FTE status: 0.6 On-call: No Weekends: Yes **General Summary:** Under the direction of a Registered Nurse (RN), the Patient Care Technician (PCT) provides basic nursing care to patients and performs related tasks necessary to support the unit.
• **Requirements:** * Minimum High School Diploma or GED required.
• * Must meet one of the following requirements: + Current Certified Nurse Aide (CENA) certification, or + Current enrollment (and continued progression) in a health science program required with completion of nursing fundamentals course and/or one clinical rotation preferred.
• Equivalent enrollment considered will include but is not limited to: Nursing School, Pre-PA School, Medical School, or closely related health science program, or + Equivalent experience.
• Equivalent experience considered will include but is not limited to: Medical Assistant, Paramedic, Medical First Responder, EMT, Nurse Tech, Resident Aid/Assistant, or LPN.
• * Basic understanding of Medical Terminology, Anatomy, Physiology, and Patient Confidentiality is preferred.
• * Current Basic Life Support (BLS/CPR) provider required.
• * Experience in acute care or extended care facility preferred.
• * Able to successfully complete unit-specific core competencies as defined in the orientation check-list.
• **Essential Functions and Responsibilities:** * ACTIVITY / COMFORT: Assist patients with activity of daily living and provides for patient comfort.
• This responsibility includes making occupied and unoccupied beds; turning and positioning patients in bed; ambulating and dangling patients; transfers patients; performs passive and assisting with active range-of-motion exercises.
• * HYGIENE: Assist patients with hygiene activities.
• * PROCEDURES: Indwelling urinary catheter care (excluding insertion, removal and irrigation); changing non-sterile dressings; providing ileostomy/colostomy care.
• * Assisting with postmortem care.
• * NUTRITION: Assist patients with nutrition including passing trays, snacks and drinking water; feeding patients; and measuring and recording intake from dietary trays.
• * ELIMINATION: Assist patients with elimination needs recording accurate input and output.
• Empties other drains as designated by the RN.
• * SPECIMEN COLLECTION: Collects and labels sputum, urine, and stool specimens for laboratory testing; testing urine for sugar, acetone, blood or pH; straining urine for kidney stones; and using the glucometer to test blood glucose levels.
• * VITAL SIGNS / MEASUREMENT: Measures and record accurate vital signs and weight including oral and tympanic temperature, radial and apical pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate; and using standing, chair, sling and bed scales to measure weight.
• * EQUIPMENT: Uses equipment and supplies safely and appropriately.
• This includes assisting patients with incentive spirometry; setting up oxygen flow meters; setting up suction equipment and disposing of suction canisters; and applying and removing ice bags, moist or dry heat, ace bandages, arm slings, binders, supports, anti-embolism stockings, sequential compression devices (SCDs), restraints.
• * INFECTION CONTROL: Assists with controlling the spread of infection by using aseptic technique; adhering to universal/standard precautions; caring appropriately for patients with special isolation precautions; passing clean linen and bagging and disposing of soiled linen; replacing full sharps containers; cleaning equipment between patients' use; and cleaning equipment prior to return to Central Processing Department (CPD).
• * DOCUMENTATION: Document care given as directed by the RN.
• * COMMUNICATION: Communicates effectively using Vocera, unit paging system, telephone system and pneumatic tube system; answering patient call lights; reporting observations to the RN; keeping the RN informed of care delivered; maintaining patient confidentiality.
• * Performs other duties as assigned.
• These may include but are not limited to: Performing tasks assigned by the Registered Nurse in charge to facilitate department efficiency.
• Maintaining a current knowledge base of department processes and procedures for patient care, pursuing self-directed learning and continuing education opportunities, and participating on committees, task forces, and work groups as determined by management.

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