OBV - Days

Endeavor Health•Chicago, IL

8d•$20 - $29•Onsite

About The Position

The Patient Care Technician provides care to patients on an assigned nursing unit under the direction of a Clinical Nurse Manager. The role supports patient safety, comfort, hygiene, nutrition, mobility, monitoring, and admission workflows, and requires respectful communication with patients, families, visitors, and health care team members. The technician may float to other inpatient units as needed and works days from 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., 36 hours per week, including every other weekend and rotating holidays. The position requires use of standard and ordered special precautions, including appropriate personal protective equipment, and adherence to safe patient handling, fall-prevention, privacy, confidentiality, and other safety practices. The technician documents vital signs and point-of-care blood glucose results in the electronic medical record, performs ECGs as directed, reports changes or observations to the RN, maintains clinical competency, and helps keep the unit and equipment clean and stocked.

Requirements

CNA certification, successful completion of an accredited nursing assistant training course, at least six months of previous patient care experience or equivalent, or completion of one nursing clinical rotation.
American Heart Association CPR certification.
High school graduation or equivalent.
Ability to interact effectively with others.
Ability to uphold confidentiality standards appropriately.
Effective written and verbal communication skills, organization, and self-direction.

Responsibilities

Provide care to patients on the assigned nursing unit under the direction of a Clinical Nurse Manager.
Communicate respectfully and effectively with patients, families, visitors, and health care team members.
Use standard precautions and any special precautions ordered for patients, including appropriate personal protective equipment.
Assist patients with hygiene and elimination needs, including using the bathroom or bedside commode.
Prepare patient rooms for admissions by placing ECG cables and leads, an SPO2 cable for critical care, and a disposable blood pressure cuff.
Assist the RN with admissions by attaching ECG cables and pulse oximetry, taking initial vital signs, setting up the room, and transferring patients to beds.
Assist patients with nutritional needs, including helping them eat when needed.
Assist patients with ambulation and range-of-motion activities.
Follow patient and staff safety policies and procedures, safe patient handling guidelines, and directions for lifting and other patient safety equipment.
Accurately document temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and point-of-care blood glucose results in the electronic medical record.
Clean multi-use equipment between patients and apply fall and high-risk precautions as indicated by need and RN direction.
Round on and reposition assigned patients every two hours.
Regularly communicate with the RN about changes in vital signs, patient or family observations, and assigned tasks.
Maintain clinical competency, which is tested annually by Nursing Education.
Perform 12-lead ECGs as directed by the RN.
Organize and stock the nursing unit with patient care supplies.
Maintain patient privacy and confidentiality.
Empty, measure, and record output from Foley and colostomy bags as directed by the RN and at the end of the assigned shift.
Gather required linen before bathing or cleaning a patient.
Perform Accu-Check quality controls daily at midnight.
Work with housekeeping to empty trash from patient rooms, the nursing station, hallway, medication room, and storeroom at the end of the shift.
If no PCT is scheduled for the next shift, check all patients’ vital signs at the end of the shift at 0700 or 1900.
Give a hand-off report to the oncoming PCT before leaving at the end of the shift.