Patient Care Technician, (PCT) - Acute Care/ICU, Full Time (0.9 FTE) , Days Shift

Island Health Careers•Anacortes, WA

11h•Onsite

About The Position

The Patient Care Technician supports patients and the Acute Care/ICU team at Island Health’s Anacortes, Washington location. This onsite position is scheduled for 0.9 FTE on the day shift. The technician assists with patients’ personal care, mobility, comfort, and examinations; takes and records measurements and other data as directed; and reports unusual findings or changes in patients’ conditions to the nurse.

Requirements

Current Washington State Nursing Assistant Certification.
Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support Certification.

Nice To Haves

Three to six months of previous CNA experience preferred.
High school diploma or GED preferred.

Responsibilities

Respond to signal lights and bells to determine patients’ needs.
Bathe, dress, and undress patients.
Serve and collect food trays and assist patients who need help eating.
Transport patients to treatment units by wheelchair, stretcher, or bed, or assist them to walk.
Assist patients with ambulation.
Drape patients for examinations and treatments, remain with them, hold instruments, and adjust lights as needed.
Assist patients with toileting, including using the bathroom, bedside commode, or bedpan.
Tidy and clean patients’ rooms.
Wash and dress the bodies of deceased persons.
Change bed linens, run errands, direct visitors, and answer telephones.
Take and record blood pressure, temperature, pulse, respiration rates, glucose levels, and food and liquid intake and output as directed.
Report unusual findings to the nurse.
Assist with turning and repositioning patients as needed.
Report abnormal vital signs, skin breakdown, decline in mentation, or other observed changes to the RN.
Enter data into the computer system.
Place telemetry electrodes accurately when ordered.
Collect urine and stool specimens for the laboratory and perform guaiac testing.