Patient Care Technician Certified - Nursing - Med/Surg - 6C

LCMC Health-posted about 2 months ago
Entry Level
New Orleans, LA
5,001-10,000 employees
Hospitals
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Your job is more than a job. Why a Great Place to Work: You're more than your job. Everyone is. And that's what makes you great at your job-all the little extras you bring to work every day, the things that make you you. At LCMC Health we value those things about you, because we know that all those little extras add up to extraordinary. And we've built a culture that supports and celebrates the extraordinary. You'll see it when you come to work here, in the spirit of our places and the faces of our people. And every patient we heal, every family we comfort, every life we improve is the outcome of countless little extras adding up to an extraordinary result. Join LCMC Health, and you'll find that our everyday makes it easy to live your extraordinary. This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this department. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities, and LCMC Health reserves the right to amend and change responsibilities to meet organizational needs as necessary.

  • Facilitates and maintains a safe environment for patients and others:
  • Performs the priority technical procedures required by the area/department/assignment safely, effectively, efficiently, and legally.
  • Provides care services like Basic life support (CPR), ADLs, restorative care, calculates intake and output, lifting, ambulating, transferring, positioning, weights, equipment use, vital signs, phlebotomy, dressing changes, obtaining EKGs, etc.
  • Prepares patient room, charts in the electronic medical record, cleans unit equipment, orders inventory medical/office supplies, and performs other non-complex tasks.
  • Delivers basic patient care under the direction of the RN or other licensed healthcare provider:
  • Prioritizes assigned tasks and patient care activities based on the following: acuity of the need, resource availability, customer/patient preference/request, and other departmental needs.
  • Reports abnormal patient findings and situations to RN or other licensed healthcare provider and takes actions to correct unsafe conditions.
  • Gives rationale for actions or decisions based on logic, successful experience, intuition and/or established policies/procedures.
  • Collaborates with interdisciplinary team members to identify actions to improve patient care:
  • Seeks supervision or assistance when unable to perform effectively or safely and independently.
  • Contributes to continuity of patient care:
  • Initiates and/or maintains job specific interventions to assure continuity of safe and effective care for patients.
  • Complies with established hospital/departmental/personnel policies.
  • Delegation:
  • Delegates tasks to other team members to accomplish direct patient care or support activities.
  • Questions the appropriateness of a task that has been delegated by the RN/Licensed healthcare provider when there are concerns about scope of practice.
  • Enters supply rooms on nursing units as needed to perform necessary job functions.
  • Refrains from manipulating or removing any intravenous fluids that are stored in the area.
  • High school diploma, GED, or completion of a nursing assistant program required. Will consider two years as a certified nursing assistant or patient care tech in lieu of education.
  • Certified Medical Assistant through the American Association of Medical Assistants, Certified Nurse Assistant through the Louisiana State Department of Health, or Certified Patient Care Technician/Certified Patient Care Technician/Assistant through the National Health Careers Association
  • Basic Life Support Health Care Provider through the American Heart Association and Non-Violent Crisis Prevention through the Crisis Prevention Institute
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