Patient Care Technician, Med Surg

Cape Cod Healthcare • Falmouth, MA

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About The Position

The Patient Care Technician provides direct patient care in a medical-surgical setting. Duties include monitoring and recording vital signs; assisting with hygiene, mobility, nutrition, and comfort; performing wound and tracheotomy care; collecting specimens and conducting routine laboratory tests; and using clinical equipment. The technician observes patients and reports adverse reactions or changes to medical personnel, follows infection-control and blood-borne pathogen standards, maintains supplies and equipment, and supports other patient-care needs as assigned.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA).
• Six months of experience in a health care setting.
• Ability to read, write, and understand English.
• Completion of an EKG course.
• BLS certification.
• Phlebotomy.

Responsibilities

• Take and record patients’ vital signs.
• Dress wounds and provide enemas, douches, alcohol rubs, massages, compresses, ice bags, and hot-water bottles.
• Observe patients and report adverse reactions to medication or treatment to the medical personnel in charge.
• Administer specified medication orally or by subcutaneous or intramuscular injection, and record the time and amount on patients’ charts.
• Assemble and use equipment such as catheters, tracheotomy tubes, and oxygen supplies.
• Collect patient samples, including urine, blood, and sputum, and perform routine laboratory tests on samples.
• Sterilize equipment and supplies.
• Prepare or examine food trays for prescribed diets, feed patients, and record food and fluid intake and output.
• Bathe and dress patients and assist them with walking and turning.
• Clean rooms, make beds, and answer patients’ calls.
• Wash and dress bodies of deceased persons.
• Assist with the delivery, care, and feeding of infants.
• Inventory and requisition supplies.
• Perform tracheotomy care, colostomy care, wound care, and dressing changes.
• Demonstrate use of universal precautions, understand OSHA Blood-borne Pathogens Standards, prevent TB transmission, and follow infection-control policies.
• Wear the facility-provided identification badge at all times.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Be courteous to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED