Patient Care Technician (PCT) | Pediatrics | PICU | PRN

Avera•Sioux Falls, SD

16h•Onsite

About The Position

The Patient Care Technician provides routine patient care and support services in accordance with established policies and procedures, as directed by a nurse or physician, to help maintain the highest quality of patient care. This position is in Pediatrics/PICU at Avera McKennan Hospital. Shifts are 12 hours, on days or nights, with a rotating schedule that includes evenings, weekends, and potentially holidays. The position is PRN.

Requirements

Be able to work the specified hours.
Perform each essential job function satisfactorily, including having visual acuity adequate for position duties and the ability to communicate effectively, hear, understand, and distinguish speech and other sounds.
High school diploma or GED equivalent.
Minimum age requirement: 16.
Maintain confidentiality.
Work effectively in a team environment, coordinate workflow with other team members, and help ensure a productive and efficient environment.
Comply with applicable safety principles, laws, regulations, and standards, including those associated with CMS, The Joint Commission, DHHS, and OSHA.

Nice To Haves

Certified Nurse Aide (CNA) license or certification.

Responsibilities

Provide safe, direct patient care, including ambulating, bathing, positioning, entering diet information into the computer system, passing meal trays, feeding patients, and attending to other care needs.
Respond promptly to patient call lights and special needs; ensure patient valuables and personal items are properly handled and accounted for.
Greet visitors, answer inquiries, direct and assist people, take and relay messages, assist with patient gifts, flowers, and mail, and run errands for department staff.
Assist patients in and out of wheelchairs, measure intake and output, collect specimens as needed, and transport patients as needed.
Answer the telephone, operate the paging system, and attend the station and direct traffic during emergencies.
Prepare requisitions for diagnostic and therapeutic services as directed and coordinate appointments with the relevant departments.
Make outpatient appointments for patients being discharged.
Requisition supplies and equipment, request maintenance and repair services, and prepare related forms.
Request services such as chaplaincy, social services, and pastoral care as directed.
Perform clerical duties related to admission, discharge, transfer, and death procedures, including preparing charts and forms.
Manage interdepartmental and patient mail.
Keep patient rooms orderly, change bed linens, and perform routine cleaning tasks.