T with Benefits Evening

Hackensack Meridian Health•North Bergen, NJ

6h•$20

About The Position

The Patient Care Technician provides age-appropriate patient care in an ICU/CCU setting, supporting patients’ physical, psychosocial, educational, and safety needs. The role helps promote safe outcomes through sound judgment, effective communication, initiative, and collaboration with patients, nursing colleagues, and other members of the healthcare team. The technician participates in care planning from admission through discharge, supports safe transitions, and contributes to unit and department performance-improvement activities. The position includes gathering and documenting clinical information, assisting with examinations and procedures, collecting and processing specimens, performing venipuncture and EKGs as directed, and reporting abnormal findings or changes in condition to the RN. The technician also provides hygiene, comfort, feeding, mobility, and transport assistance; maintains a safe and prepared patient environment; and checks and restocks supplies and equipment. Care should be adapted to patients’ ages, cultures, languages, and communication or accessibility needs.

Requirements

High school diploma, GED, or equivalent GED program.
Completion of a Certified Nursing Assistant, Medical Assistant, or Patient Care Technician program; a Fundamentals of Nursing program from an accredited nursing school; the HMH PCT Apprenticeship Program; or equivalent medical-background experience such as EMT, Home Health Aide, CMA, MA, PCT, or Nursing Assistant.
Candidates who meet the other requirements but have not completed one of the listed programs may be considered for selection into the HMH PCT Apprentice Program; candidates hired as apprentices transfer to the Patient Care Technician role after successfully completing the program.
Ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing patient needs.
Accountability, teamwork, commitment to ongoing education, and the ability and motivation to deliver high-quality, patient-focused care and service.
AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification within 60 days of entering the position.

Nice To Haves

Experience or certification in phlebotomy, EKGs, vital signs, and blood glucose testing.
At least one year of PCT or CNA experience in a hospital setting, or eligibility for the HMH PCT Apprentice Program.
CNA, CMA, or PCT certification from a program that includes phlebotomy, EKG, and nursing assistant coursework in both theoretical and clinical settings.

Responsibilities

Provide patient care appropriate to patients’ physical, psychosocial, educational, safety, age-related, and other needs.
Promote safe patient outcomes through appropriate practice, judgment, and critical actions.
Communicate with patients, nursing colleagues, and other healthcare team members about patient status and care provided.
Take initiative to improve job performance and contribute beyond routine expectations.
Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team on the patient’s plan of care from admission through discharge and support safe transitions.
Participate in unit and department performance-improvement activities.
Welcome patients and verify that identification bracelets are correct.
Prepare patients for assessment, admission, physical examinations, and procedures.
Respond to opportunities to improve patient satisfaction.
Obtain and document temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation; promptly notify the RN of abnormal findings.
Collect blood and other specimens using appropriate aseptic techniques, and label, process, and transport specimens correctly and promptly.
Perform venipuncture for laboratory tests.
Perform EKGs as directed.
Ensure necessary equipment is present, functional, and clean; check and maintain code carts, oxygen, and other emergency equipment as directed.
Apply bandages, slings, compression boots, and hypothermia blankets according to standards and as directed by the RN.
Assist with patient transport to departments or units.
Assist with meal preparation and feeding as needed.
Check inventory and restock the assigned area as directed.
Prepare the room environment for patient admission.
Provide hygiene and comfort care, including bathing, toileting, oral hygiene, incontinence care, and bed making.
Assist patients with dressing and undressing, manage belongings and property checklists, and monitor the return of clothing to family.
Perform and document glucose finger sticks and collect other specimens as directed.
Provide post-mortem care.
Obtain and document patient weights and monitor and document intake and output.
Maintain a safe patient environment, answer call lights promptly, and immediately communicate changes in patient condition to the RN.
Identify the needs of the patient population and adapt care and communication to individual age, culture, language, hearing, vision, developmental, educational, and literacy needs.
Perform other assigned duties or projects and adhere to HMH organizational competencies and standards of behavior.