Patient Care Tech Float: PT 7a-7p

Firelands Health•Sandusky, OH

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Patient Care Tech Float is a part-time position requiring 24 hours per week, with shifts from 7am to 7pm. This role involves alternating every third weekend and offers support for work-life balance. The position is part of a career advancement path, with opportunities for those interested in becoming an RN through the Firelands Regional Medical Center School of Nursing, which partners with Bowling Green State University (BGSU) Firelands College. The role is located in Sandusky, a city described as a "Best Coastal Small Town in America" along Lake Erie. Firelands Health aims to be the preferred independent healthcare employer in the Sandusky Bay region, serving as a comprehensive resource for quality medical care. As a locally managed, not-for-profit facility, Firelands Health serves over 300,000 residents across Erie, Ottawa, Sandusky, and Huron counties with a mission to provide excellent healthcare, promote community wellness, and improve lives. The organization operates under Core ACE Values: Attitude, Commitment, and Enthusiasm.

Requirements

Previous hospital experience preferred.
Critical thinking skills, decisive judgment, and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
Current BLS certification required or obtained within 30 days of hire.

Responsibilities

Assists with delivering patient care: obtain patient vital signs, assist with feeding, toileting, hygiene care, finger-stick blood sugar readings, maintain skin integrity, perform EKGs, and ambulate and transfer patients.
Perform routine procedures including surgical skin preps and enemas.
Schedules diagnostic procedures/tests/appointments, effectively communicating and co-coordinating orders with Physicians, Charge Nurses, direct care givers, ancillary departments, and other facilities.
Answers call lights timely and notifies appropriate personnel of patient needs immediately.
Demonstrates service excellence and strives to assist the unit to meet established goals for our patient satisfaction.
Recognizes significant changes in patient’s condition and takes appropriate action.
Collect data, report information and/or perform interventions for the purpose of improving a variety of quality issues.
Obtain patient information/data and observes confidentiality.
Orders and enters charges for procedures, supplies, equipment as applicable.
Reports problems or concerns to the appropriate person or department and will assist in the resolution whenever possible.
Must be flexible, maintain adaptability, and be a team player.
Positive professional communication skills and guest relations; projects a positive impression of the Medical Center.
Perform VS, height, weight, and visual acuity in triage.
Assist with sterile field set up for suturing and procedures.
May perform other patient care activities as trained and directed by the RN.