Patient Care Technician | Med Surg | PRN

Avera Health • O'Neill, NE

96d • $18 - $23

About The Position

The Patient Care Technician is responsible for providing routine patient care and support services in accordance with established policies and procedures, and as may be directed by the nurse or physician, to assure that the highest degree of quality patient care is maintained at all times. This position is PRN, meaning the individual will work as needed, covering shifts that may include days, nights, weekends, and holidays. The role involves a variety of tasks including direct patient care, clerical duties, and maintaining patient rooms.

Requirements

• High School diploma or general education degree (GED).
• Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) - Licensing Board.
• Minimum Age Requirements: 16.
• Ability to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties.
• Ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds.

Responsibilities

• Provides safe and direct patient care: ambulating, bathing, positioning, entering diet information into the computer system, passing meal trays, feeding and attending to other care needs.
• Responds promptly to patient call lights and special needs, ensures that patient valuables and personal items are properly handled and accounted for.
• Greets all persons coming to the area assigned, answers inquiries, may direct and assist them, take and relay messages, assist with gifts, flowers, and mail for patients, run errands for department staff.
• Ambulates patients and assists them in and out of wheelchairs, measures intakes and outputs, may collect specimens and transport patients as needed.
• Answers telephone, operates paging system, and attends station and directs traffic during emergencies.
• Prepares requisitions for diagnostic and therapeutic services patients as directed and coordinates appointments with respective departments.
• Makes outpatient appointments for discharging patients.
• Requisition of supplies and equipment, maintenance and repairs services and prepares related forms.
• Requests services such as the following as directed: Chaplain, social services, and pastoral care.
• Performs clerical duties related to procedures such as admission, discharge, preparing appropriate charts and forms, transfer, and death.
• Manages interdepartmental and patient mail.
• Maintains patient rooms in an orderly condition, changes bed linens and provides routine cleaning tasks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: High school or GED