Patient Care Technician | 36 hours per week | Medical Surgical Unit

Southeast Iowa Regional Medical Center•West Burlington, IA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This position provides basic patient care under the direct supervision of a licensed nurse. The role involves delivering high-quality care to a diverse patient population, including Adult, Medical/Surgical, Geriatric, Telemetry, Cardiac, Neonate, Infant, Toddler, School Age, Adolescent, and Psychiatric care patients. Key duties encompass performing bedside shift reports, implementing policies for fall prevention, assisting in wound prevention and managing hospital-acquired pressure injuries, and ensuring the safety of restrained patients as directed by the licensed nurse. The technician is expected to be cost-conscious with equipment and supplies, adhere to safety practices (e.g., infection control, proper use of lifts and PPE), and demonstrate proficiency in keyboarding, computer navigation, and basic math for tasks like intake/output calculations. Responsibilities also include setting up medical equipment such as oxygen, portable x-ray machines, and overhead irrigation bottles. The role involves promptly responding to patient call lights, conducting skin assessments and reporting abnormalities, assisting with activities of daily living (ADL’s), maintaining clean patient rooms, collecting and labeling specimens, delivering messages and documents, feeding patients who require assistance, observing and reporting changes in patient conditions (e.g., vital signs, intake/output), assisting patients with walking, exercising, and transfers, transporting patients via wheelchair or stretcher, and repositioning patients to prevent pressure ulcers. The technician proactively monitors patients for safety, communicates needs for monitoring devices, consistently uses patient safety devices, accurately documents activities in medical records, performs blood glucose monitoring, and conducts quality monitoring. Additionally, the role includes clerical and administrative functions such as greeting visitors, facilitating admissions, discharges, and transfers, operating various office and medical equipment (nurse call, fax, scanners, photocopier, computer, telephone, telemetry), maintaining supply inventory, accurate order entry, assembling and tearing down medical records, and performing quality checks on equipment like crash carts and transport monitors.

Requirements

Completion of C.N.A. course (or complete within four months of hire date)
Completion of C.N.A course if currently in high school
Computer experience
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Certified Nursing Assistant within 120 Days
Emergency First Response and Choking within 90 days of hire.
MOAB within 12 months of hire.
Restraint training completed after hire.

Nice To Haves

Health care experience within the last five years

Responsibilities

Provides basic patient care under the direction of a licensed nurse.
Provides high quality care to the following patient populations: Adult, Medical/Surgical, Geriatric, Telemetry, Cardiac, Neonate, Infant, Toddler, School Age, Adolescent, and Psychiatric care patients.
Perform Bedside shift report and beginning and end of shift.
Utilize policies and procedures to keep patients safe from falls.
Assist in wound prevention and Hospital acquired pressure injuries.
Care for the restrained patient and monitor for safety, as directed by the licensed nurse.
Is cost conscious in use of equipment and supplies.
Adhere to safety practices for own personal protection, i.e. infection control devices, lifts, gait belts, eye shields, gloves.
Demonstrate accurate keyboarding proficiency and computer navigation skills.
Demonstrate knowledge of basic math to calculate intake and output.
Set up equipment such as oxygen, portable x-ray machines, and overhead irrigation bottles.
Answer patients' call lights in a timely manner and addresses request or reports to co-worker to fulfill the request.
Perform skin assessment and reports abnormal results to licensed nurse in a timely manner.
Perform activities of daily living (ADL’s).
Maintain clean patient rooms and changes linens, as appropriate.
Collect and correctly label specimens, such as urine, feces, or sputum.
Deliver messages, documents, and specimens.
Feed patients who are unable to feed themselves.
Observe patients' conditions, such as measuring and recording intake and output and vital signs; report changes to professional staff in a timely manner.
Provide patients with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed.
Transport patients to treatment units, using a wheelchair or stretcher.
Turn and reposition patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent pressure ulcers.
Proactively monitors patients for safety and communicates to licensed nurse the need for any monitoring devices (alarms).
Consistently uses patient safety devices.
Document activities performed in the medical record in an accurate and timely manner.
Perform blood glucose monitoring and report abnormal results to licensed nurse in a timely manner.
Perform quality monitoring as directed: BGM, etc.
Appropriate use of bed/chair alarms for fall prevention.
Greet visitors and callers to ascertain purpose of visit or call, and direct them to appropriate staff.
Facilitate admissions, discharges and transfers in collaboration with other staff.
Operate office equipment such as: nurse call, fax, scanners, photocopier, computer system, telephone system, telemetry.
Maintain inventory of supplies based on unit routine.
Assemble, clean sheet, and tear down medical records.
Accurate and timely order entry.
Perform various clerical and administrative functions, such as ordering and maintaining an inventory of supplies.
Perform quality checks on equipment, i.e. crash cart, transport monitor.
May perform clerk duties and assist with clerical functions.

Benefits

Competitive base pay
Matching retirement programs
Health, Dental and Vision plans
Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
Employee discounts including car rental, cell-phone plans
Employer-paid, Long-Term Disability, Life, and AD&D
Paid time off (PTO)
Education Assistance Program
Employee Assistance Program
Employee Referral Bonus Program
Discounted cafeteria meals
Paid Parental Leave
Employee Service Recognition program
Voluntary plans including: Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability, Critical Illness, Accident, Insurance, and Hospital Indemnity