Patient Care Tech - Acute

OSBORNE COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL • Osborne, KS

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Provides direct and indirect patient care activities under direct supervision of the Licensed Practical Nurse and the Registered Nurse. Assists patients with activities of daily living, providing for personal care, comfort, and assistance when necessary. Works cooperatively with other employees.

Requirements

• Must be 16 years of age.
• Must be CPR certified.
• Provide accurate, concise and effective oral and written communication.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, patients, and the general public.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractures, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.
• Ability to solve practical problems that deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Nice To Haves

• Previous clinical experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• bedside nursing care
• care of the patient’s unit
• food service
• handling equipment and supplies
• answer the patient’s call light
• report all useful information to nurse
• assist in admission, transfer, and discharge of patients
• patient heights and weights
• feeding patients
• bathing patients
• measuring and recording of intake and output
• collect specimens
• make patient beds
• lift and transfer patients
• observe and record information about patient’s objectively
• obtaining and recording vital signs
• proper techniques of good medical asepsis
• maintain a safe environment
• shave patients
• assist care with obstetrical patients
• safe and correct use of bedrails
• assist care of the newborn
• offer bedpans and urinals
• apply binders or ace wraps
• straighten the utility rooms
• apply warm or cold applications
• deliver fresh drinking water
• assist with pre- and post-op cares
• assist with patient positioning
• care for equipment
• give enemas
• care for patient’s skin
• back rubs
• care for the diabetic patient
• care for the cardiac patient
• care of a patient with a colostomy
• care for the patient in isolation
• care for the dying patient
• care for the patient after death
• oral care
• prepare soiled linen for laundry to take to the laundry area
• empty trash cans as needed

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed