Nurse Tech I

St. Joseph Medical Center•Tacoma, WA

10d

About The Position

As a Nurse Technician, you assist nursing staff and provide direct patient care under the supervision of a Registered Nurse. The role involves performing basic patient care tasks, monitoring vital signs, assisting with activities of daily living, and maintaining a clean and safe patient environment. Success requires compassion, strong communication skills, eagerness to learn, and adherence to patient care protocols. You provide personal care, hygiene, and physical comfort within the scope permitted by the Nursing Skills Checklist, including feeding, bathing, shaving, changing clothes, bed making, ambulation, lifting, turning, moving, transferring, enemas, skin care, and bowel and bladder elimination. You prepare patients, equipment, and supplies for procedures and examinations, and provide additional care according to your skills, limitations, and patient acuity. You perform, monitor, report, and document clinical activities within your permitted scope. You observe and report changes in patient condition to the RN, and obtain, label, and transport samples such as urine, stool, sputum, and blood products. You assist with patient admissions, discharges, and transfers, including handling belongings, providing personal care and comfort items, orienting patients and families, and transporting patients using wheelchairs, stretchers, or beds. You provide relevant patient information to nursing staff for the interdisciplinary plan of care and document data according to work-unit standards. You maintain an organized work environment, replenish supplies and equipment, and report supply or equipment problems. For equipment requiring repair, you enter a repair request, tag the equipment, and remove it from service. You follow hospital safety, risk management, regulatory, and infection-prevention standards.

Requirements

High school graduate with general studies, or a GED with general studies.
Currently enrolled in an accredited Registered Nurse Bachelor of Science degree program, or a Registered Nurse Associate Degree program, with satisfactory completion of at least one academic term (quarter or semester) that includes a clinical component.
Current Basic Life Support CPR certification from the American Heart Association.

Responsibilities

Provide patient personal care, hygiene, and physical comfort within the scope permitted by the Nursing Skills Checklist.
Prepare patients, equipment, and supplies for procedures and examinations.
Perform, monitor, report, and document clinical activities within scope of practice.
Observe and report changes in patient condition to the RN.
Obtain, label, and transport patient samples and blood products.
Assist nursing staff with patient admissions, discharges, and transfers, including handling belongings, orienting patients and families, and transporting patients.
Provide relevant patient information to nursing staff for the interdisciplinary plan of care and document patient data according to work-unit standards.
Maintain a neat and organized work environment and order, stock, and replenish supplies and equipment.
Identify and report supply or equipment problems; enter repair requests, tag equipment, and remove it from service.
Maintain a safe work and patient environment and follow hospital safety, risk management, regulatory, and infection-prevention standards.