Patient Care Technician, Senior - IV Therapy Team

Patient Care Technician, Senior

Are you skilled in IV insertions and passionate about providing top-notch patient care? UPMC East's IV Therapy Team is looking for a Patient Care Technician, Senior to join their team! If you have skilled Patient Care Technician experience and excel in IV insertion and phlebotomy, apply now!

This position is full-time. The employee is required to work 3 12-hour shifts, primarily rotating days and nights, 7-7 : 30 PM.

Departmental Support & Professionalism

• Suggests and supports changes within the department.
• Assumes responsibility for assignments and views problems as challenges.
• Demonstrates awareness of behavior on the efficient functioning of the department.
• Supports department-based projects and quality initiatives.
• Establishes appropriate and effective communication with other departments.
• Establishes professional and respectful interpersonal relationships.
• Contributes to universal unit activities (e.g., responding to call lights, telephones, passing meal trays, transporting patients).
• Assures Patient Care & Clinical Duties
• Performs core nursing assistant responsibilities : ADLs (bathing, feeding, toileting, ambulating, turning, repositioning), vital signs, I&O, blood glucose, weights, specimen collection, Foley care.
• Performs advanced clinical tasks (based on department need) :
• Phlebotomy
• 12-lead EKG
• Simple dressings
• Foley catheter insertion / removal
• IV insertion / removal and dressing change
• Bladder scan
• Femoral hemostasis
• Telemetry monitor application / reapplication
• NG tube clamping / removal
• Assists with physical, respiratory, and cardiopulmonary therapies.
• Provides feedback to RN and reports changes in patient status.
• Provides instruction to patients and families under RN direction.
• May apply, monitor, and remove patient restraints per protocol.
• Transports cardiac-monitored patients within the hospital.
• May be present in rooms where medications are stored or transport medications between departments.

Documentation & Safety

Communication & Teamwork

Learning & Development

High school diploma or equivalent.

May, in the course of their duties, be in rooms where medications are stored or may transport medications when they transport patients. Transportation of medication is limited from one department to another.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances :

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran.