Patient Care Technician Adult Cardiac Medical Unit - PT Day Ball Memorial

IU Health•Muncie, IN

6h•Onsite

About The Position

IU Health is seeking a Patient Care Technician (also known as a Patient Care Assistant or PCA) for the Adult Cardiac Medical Unit. This is a Part-Time Day position. As a bedside caregiver, the PCA will provide a phenomenal patient experience by anticipating the needs of patients such as providing drinks, assisting with meal ordering, encouraging walking, assisting with baths, and providing clean linens and gowns. Our PCAs are expected to have compassion for patients, a caring bedside manner, and an ability to work in a fast-paced environment. They will provide clinical assistance to the bedside RN by obtaining vital signs and reporting abnormalities or changes in a patient's behavior to the primary RN or charge nurse in order to detect and provide rapid treatment. A PCA always keeps patients safe by utilizing safety measures such as gait belts, bed and chair alarms, and staying within arm's reach of patients when moving around. IU Health is Indiana’s most comprehensive health system, with 15 hospitals and nearly 40,000 team members, and is ranked No. 1 in Indiana by U.S. News & World Report.

Requirements

Requires current Basic Life Support certification through the AHA or attainment at the completion of the IU Health PCA education program.
Requires knowledge of care appropriate to the age and developmental level of the patients served.
Requires up to date knowledge of procedures and standards related to patient care activities.
Requires proficiency in interpersonal and communication skills.
Requires constant mental awareness and the ability to withstand a high level of tension and stress.
Requires ability to maintain concentration when subjected to frequent and varied interruptions and variable noise levels.
Requires ability to exercise judgment and initiative in the resolution of problems encountered.
Requires ability to set priorities and manage a high workload within a limited time for completion.
Requires knowledge of procedures; equipment; software and standards related to patient care activities that non-licensed role performs (for example PCA/PCR/PCI).
Requires knowledge of principles of infection control.
Requires ability to perform physically demanding; repetitious movements.
Requires ability to read and perform basic math.
Requires ability to organize tasks and attend to details.
Requires knowledge of principles of good personal hygiene and aseptic techniques to prevent infection of patients; self; and others.

Responsibilities

Provide a phenomenal patient experience by anticipating the needs of patients such as providing drinks, assisting with meal ordering, encouraging walking, assisting with baths, and providing clean linens and gowns.
Provide clinical assistance to the bedside RN by obtaining vital signs and reporting abnormalities or changes in a patient's behavior to the primary RN or charge nurse in order to detect and provide rapid treatment.
Keep patients safe by utilizing safety measures such as gait belts, bed and chair alarms, and staying within arm's reach of patients when moving around.