Health Care Tech - Bell Pre/Post | Full-Time

The University of Kansas Health System•Kansas City, KS

About The Position

The Health Care Technician is an unlicensed staff member in Perioperative and Procedural Services who completes tasks delegated by an RN. The technician provides care in a caring and culturally sensitive manner, delivers excellent customer service, and demonstrates critical-thinking, interpersonal, and technical skills. The position is based at Bell Hospital, and various shifts are available at The University of Kansas Health System.

Requirements

High school graduate.
Technical or professional training or a degree as a medical assistant (MA), emergency medical technician (EMT), or licensed practical nurse (LPN), or completion of 1–2 years of nursing school.
Basic Cardiac Life Support (BLS or BCLS) certification from the American Heart Association (AHA).
Familiarity with Microsoft Outlook.
Data-entry skills.

Nice To Haves

Acute care experience involving direct patient care and phlebotomy.

Responsibilities

Provide basic nursing skills, including taking vital signs and pulse oximetry readings; performing phlebotomy, 12-lead EKGs, and finger-stick blood glucose tests; assisting with activities of daily living; recording intake and output; and collecting urine, stool, and sputum specimens.
Apply and remove compression hose and sequential compression devices; empty drains, urinary catheters, NG tubes, and ostomies; perform bladder scans; and obtain patient height and weight.
Transport patients; turn over and stock rooms; place patient-monitoring devices; and set up for minor procedures.
Discontinue peripheral IVs and Foley catheters.
Set up and maintain a sterile field for procedures, assist physicians and other providers during sterile procedures, and assist with surgical skin preparation.
Collect, properly identify, and label laboratory specimens.
Document tasks and intake and output in O2.
Maintain neat, clutter-free, clean patient rooms and work areas.
Maintain a safe patient environment, including appropriate high-fall-risk interventions, rounding on patients, and promptly answering call lights in person.
Demonstrate proper hand hygiene and follow standard precautions and isolation principles.
Care for patients in restraints, including providing range-of-motion assistance and fluids or toileting; reorient confused patients; and reinforce patient and family education about fall and safety precautions and isolation principles.
Promptly notify the RN about changes in vital signs from baseline or expected results, changes in mental status or condition, skin-integrity concerns, patient reports of pain, and other patient needs, concerns, or issues.
Perform the professional, clinical, and technical competencies of the assigned unit or department, along with other duties as assigned.