Patient Care Tech, Forsyth Float Pool

Northside Hospital•Cumming, GA

62d

About The Position

Northside Hospital is award-winning, state-of-the-art, and continually growing. Constantly expanding the quality and reach of our care to our patients and communities creates even more opportunity for the best healthcare professionals in Atlanta and beyond. Discover all the possibilities of a career at Northside today. Provides nursing assistance and patient care to provide for the comfort, safety and personal needs of patients. Assists patients with activities of daily living and performs procedures for physical hygiene and comfort of patients. Performs duties with the construct of a unit-based, self-directed patient care team while sharing various tasks with other licensed and non-licensed members. In Special Care Nurseries, the Patient Care Technician is responsible for assisting with the transport of healthy, uncompromised newborns from Labor and Delivery to the newborn admission nursery, cleaning equipment used on infants in the Special Care Nursery, and ordering patient care supplies from the storeroom and stocking the Special Care Nursery areas. This position is housed in the Northside Hospital Forsyth Float Pool and offers the opportunity to care for a variety of patient populations in our Acute Care or Critical Care units. Our team enjoys self- scheduling!

Requirements

Listed as a CNA on the Georgia Registry
Graduate of a U.S. Military Medic course
Enrolled in a School of Nursing and has completed one (1) full semester of clinical rotations
Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing or Medical Degree program d. GPN or EMT with one year experience with relevant training and experience
2 or more years of experience, including 6 months at Northside.
Current BLS card (CPR)
Patient Care Techs hired under the legacy Gwinnett Patient Care Tech job description are deemed qualified for the Northside Patient Care Tech II position. Grandfathered employees will be given 180 days from 10.01.2021 to complete additional training identified by the Clinical Education Department.