Patient Care Technician- Spinal Cord Innovation - Days, Full Time
About The Position
The Patient Care Technician provides basic daily care to patients and support to significant others, performing routine service and technical duties such as helping patients with hygiene and activities of daily living and maintaining clean, orderly patient care areas. The role provides nursing care appropriate to each patient’s age and development. The technician supports Shirley Ryan AbilityLab’s mission and philosophy through excellence, teamwork, respect, and compassion for patients, families, colleagues, and others. The position also demonstrates the organization’s core attributes of communication, accountability, flexibility and adaptability, judgment and problem solving, customer service, and its values of hope, compassion, discovery, collaboration, and commitment to excellence. The technician performs care activities and authorized routine technical tasks; gathers and reports patient data; orients patients and families to the care environment and safety practices; carries out interventions under registered-nurse direction; observes and reports changes in patient condition; assists with transfers; documents care; and helps monitor supplies. The role works in a normal patient-care environment, with occasional exposure to infectious diseases and moderately adverse conditions during some care activities.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- CNA certification or current enrollment in an accredited nursing program.
- Successful completion of Patient Care Technician orientation.
- Competency in applying growth and development principles to infant, child, adolescent, young adult, middle-aged adult, and geriatric patients.
- Effective, timely verbal, non-verbal, and written communication.
- Proactively take ownership of serving customers, the team, and the organization, achieving goals, and resolving problems.
- Adapt willingly to changing work demands and environments.
- Demonstrate critical thinking and sound judgment when monitoring and responding to patient needs or changes in condition.
- Anticipate, assess, and address the needs of patients and internal and external customers to positively influence the patient/customer experience.
- Ability to transfer and position patients, including lifting up to 35 lbs.
Responsibilities
- Provide routine hygiene care and assist with food and fluid intake, elimination, mobility, and dressing or undressing.
- Perform and document authorized routine technical tasks, including collecting specimens, taking vital signs, recording intake and output and blood glucose, administering suppositories, performing intermittent catheterization, measuring bladder volume, hanging gastric feedings, and escorting patients.
- Collect and report relevant physiological, psychological, and functional data according to the patient’s plan of care or needs.
- Orient patients and families to the environment, therapeutic activities, and potential safety hazards and prevention strategies as identified by the registered nurse.
- Incorporate safety considerations into patient care as directed by the registered nurse.
- Implement plan-of-care interventions as directed by a registered nurse.
- Observe patients and report reactions or changes in condition to the registered nurse.
- Assist with transferring patients and patient-care equipment to specified areas.
- Document functional care, procedures, and other quantitative values in the nursing database.
- Help monitor supply needs to maintain adequate bedside inventory.
- Perform other duties assigned in the best interest of Shirley Ryan AbilityLab.
Benefits
- The employer offers a comprehensive benefits program described as competitive with industry peers in its geographic locations; benefits and eligibility may vary by position.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
High school or GED
