Patient Care Technician

Job Description

Under direction and supervision of registered Nurse, assists with activities of daily living, provides basic nursing care, and assists in maintenance of a safe and clean environment.

Job Responsibility

• Functions as a co-worker to the nurse and a key member of the nursing care team :
• Organizes patient care assignment and sets priorities.
• Alerts RN co-worker to changes in patient status i.e., alteration in comfort, skin integrity, alterations in breathing pattern, etc.
• Documents patient care and patient status changes on the appropriate chart forms.
• Communicates routine information to RN periodically during shift i.e., intake and output.
• Assists RN in providing for ADL needs of patients :
• Prepares patients for meals, and feeds or assists with meals.
• Provides between meal nourishment and fresh water to patients.
• Bathes or assists patient to bathe, provides oral hygiene.
• Toilets patients as necessary.
• Maintains patient's mobility with range of motion exercises and ambulation.
• Grooms patient, including shaving, as needed.
• Participates with the RN in the development of a plan of care for assigned patient.
• Utilizes a plan of care in carrying out patient assignments.
• Maintains patient care units in a neat and orderly condition :
• Changes and makes beds.
• Cleans and straightens bedside table and over-bed tables, as needed.
• Strips patient units upon discharge of patient, in preparation for cleaning by Housekeeping Department.
• Removes equipment from room. Cleans and place it in appropriate are.
• Prepares room for new admissions, transfers and post-operative patients.
• Assists Registered Nurse by performing selected procedures and simple treatments :
• Takes and records temperature, pulse, respiration rate and B.P. on admission and as assigned.
• Measures and records fluid intake and output; totals at shift end.
• Perform, mount and process EKG's.
• Draw and process blood, as appropriate, within State and County guidelines.
• Obtains specimens, such as urine, stool and sputum.
• Administers enemas, as directed.
• Weighs and records patient weight on admission and as indicated.
• Shave patients as instructed in preparation for procedures.
• Performs simple procedures utilizing aseptic technique (i.e. - applying and changing simple dressings).
• Performs simple respiratory treatments, as required (i.e. oral suctioning).
• Performs a variety of related duties :
• Assists patients in and out of bed, ambulates patients, lifts, turns and positions patients.
• Assists with serving of meals; positions patient, cleans over-bed table, and helps distribute and collect trays.
• Transports and accompanies patients to various departments, as directed.
• Reports missing or damaged equipment to Nursing Unit Secretary.
• Maintains non-patient rooms (i.e., utility rooms, linen rooms, kitchens, etc.) in a neat and orderly condition.
• Maintains cleanliness of patient care equipment.
• Performs constant observation on selected patients as assigned.
• Follows medical Center's policies and procedures to support QA / QI efforts in patient care and services.
• Performs post-mortem care and transports body to morgue.
• Takes part in Nursing's continuing education policy by :
• Attending nursing attendant course during orientation program.
• Participating and completing annual mandatory educational requirements.
• Attending nursing attendant staff development programs offered throughout the year.
• Performs related duties, as required.

Job Qualification

The salary range and / or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future.When determining a team member's base salary and / or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).