Patient Care Tech- (B8 Med/Surg)

West Tennessee Healthcare•Jackson, MS

22h•Onsite

About The Position

Under the general supervision of the Director, Clinical Manager, and Charge Nurse, the Patient Care Tech is responsible for providing hygienic care and assigned procedures for assigned patients based on age-specific needs. This role involves answering call lights, obtaining and recording patient vital signs, assisting with new admissions by taking vital signs, obtaining weights, assisting patients with gowns, and placing telemetry patches, leads, and telemetry boxes. The Patient Care Tech is also responsible for repositioning patients every two hours, ambulating patients as needed, and assisting with meals by preparing the area, passing food trays, and feeding patients who cannot feed themselves. Other duties include collecting and accurately recording intake and output, assembling patient charts, recording patient information on unit records, routing patient charges, entering written orders into the electronic medical record, completing related forms, scheduling procedures, adding forms to charts, and notifying licensed personnel. The position also assists with transporting patients, helps keep the department tidy by stocking and cleaning various rooms (break room, microwave, refrigerator, med room, dirty room, linen room, and equipment room), and assists with incentive spirometers. Comprehensive documentation of patient care activities such as baths, turns, oral intake and output, shaves, mouth care, peri and/or Foley care, vital signs, linen changes, shampoos, weights, percentage of meals consumed, ambulation, incentive spirometer usage, bowel movements, and patient chair time is also required.

Requirements

High School diploma or equivalent required (for those hired on or after June 1, 2013).
BLS certification must be obtained within the orientation period.
BLS certification must be kept current while in this position.

Nice To Haves

Experience (may be trained by qualified personnel on the unit)

Responsibilities

Answers call lights by carrying wireless phones or by the console.
Obtains and records patient Vital Signs per unit specification.
Assists with new admissions by taking vital signs, obtain weights, and assist patient with a gown, places telemetry patches, leads and telemetry box on patients.
Responsible for repositioning patients every two hours, whether it is turning or encouraging patients to turn themselves.
Ambulates patients in the hall as needed.
Assists patients with meals by getting patients up to the chair before if appropriate offers hygiene and prepares the area for eating.
Passes food trays and feeds patients who cannot feed themselves.
Collects and accurately records intake and output.
Assembles patient’s charts, records patient information on unit records and routes patient’s charges.
Enters any written orders into the electronic medical record, completes related forms, schedules procedures via computer and/or manual process, adds forms related to procedures to chart and notifies licensed personnel.
Assists with transport patients.
Helps keep department tidy by putting up stock, and clean rooms such as break room, microwave, refrigerator, med room, dirty room, linen room, and equipment room.
Assists with incentive spirometers.
Responsible for documenting: baths, turns, Oral Intake and Output obtained from Foley catheter, urinal or collection vessel, shaves, mouth care, peri and or Foley care, Vital Signs, linen changes, shampoos, weights, the percentage of meals consumed on all of their assigned patients, ambulation, incentive spirometer usage, bowel movements, and the number of times patients were up in a chair.