Patient Care Tech Cardiac PCU

Trinity Health•Ann Arbor, MI

1d•$16•Onsite

About The Position

The PCT, under the direction of a registered nurse, is responsible for direct patient care considering age specific, developmental, cultural and spiritual needs. They assist in establishing and maintaining a patient care environment that is clean, safe and conducive to patient/family wellbeing including concepts of relationship-based care. Patients on the unit require close and frequent assessment and skillful and timely clinical interventions in order to achieve their treatment goals. This is a 32-bed unit and the average patient age is 64.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED
Minimum of one year of previous direct care experience (acute or long term) or successful completion of CENA, PCT, MA, or EMT course.
Student nurses must have completed their nursing fundamentals class of a BSN program.

Responsibilities

Assist patients in completing ADLs including: Bathing, showering, toileting, positioning, turning, transferring, ambulation using assistive devices and with feeding and menu selection.
Collect and send specimens including blood and blood cultures.
Insert and remove peripheral IV catheters.
Record patient information and required data in appropriate areas in order to meet documentation requirements.
Provide services to older adolescent, adult, and older adult cardiac patients, acute and chronic Heart Failure patients, as well as medical surgical patients who require cardiac monitoring.