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

Great River Health•Fort Madison, IA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Patient Care Technician provides basic patient care under the direction of a licensed nurse, delivering high quality care to a diverse range of patient populations including Adult, Medical/Surgical, Geriatric, Telemetry, Cardiac, Neonate, Infant, Toddler, School Age, Adolescent, and Psychiatric care patients. Responsibilities include performing bedside shift reports, ensuring patient safety from falls, assisting in wound prevention, and monitoring restrained patients. The role requires cost-consciousness in the use of equipment and supplies, adherence to safety practices (e.g., infection control, use of lifts, gait belts, eye shields, gloves), and proficiency in keyboarding and computer navigation. The technician must also demonstrate basic math skills for intake and output calculations and be able to set up various medical equipment. Key duties involve responding to patient call lights, performing skin assessments, assisting with activities of daily living (ADLs), maintaining clean patient rooms, collecting and labeling specimens, delivering messages and documents, feeding patients, observing and reporting patient conditions (e.g., vital signs, intake/output), assisting patients with mobility, transporting patients, and repositioning to prevent pressure ulcers. The technician proactively monitors patients for safety, uses safety devices, accurately documents activities, performs blood glucose monitoring, and utilizes bed/chair alarms for fall prevention. Clerical duties include greeting visitors, facilitating admissions, discharges, and transfers, operating office equipment (nurse call, fax, scanners, photocopier, computer, telephone, telemetry), maintaining supply inventory, assembling and tearing down medical records, accurate order entry, and performing quality checks on equipment.

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