Psychiatric Technician - Atrium Health Resource Team/Float Pool PT Nights

Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation • Charlotte, NC

6d • Onsite

About The Position

This is a part-time Psychiatric Technician position with the Atrium Health Resource Team/Float Pool, working night shifts (7p-7a) and weekends. The role involves providing personal care for patients, assisting with dietary needs, managing elimination, collecting specimens, administering basic treatments, and assisting with patient mobility and comfort. The technician will also be responsible for monitoring patients, providing basic patient and family instructions, performing blood glucose monitoring, and retrieving blood products. Accurate reporting and documentation are essential. The position requires adherence to safety protocols, including participation in restraint application/removal and continuous observation when assigned.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Completion of an approved Nurse Aide Training Program or student nurses meeting the listing requirements of the DFS Nurse Aide Registry required.
• Current listing with the DFS Nurse Aide Registry as a Nurse Aide I required.
• Current American Heart Association Basic Cardiac Life Support HealthCare Provider certification required.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development and demonstrates the skills and competency appropriate to the ages, culture, developmental stages, and special needs of the patient population served.
• Must be able to lift and support the weight of 51 pounds in handling patients, medical equipment and supplies.
• Must speak and understand English with the ability to communicate effectively.
• Manual and finger dexterity.

Responsibilities

• Performs personal care for the comfort and well-being of the patient; includes bed bath, tub bath, shower, sitz bath, mouth care, skin care, hair care and nail care.
• Serves and collects food trays. Feeds patients and records dietary intake. Distributes ice, water and nourishments.
• Measures and records intake and output.
• Assists the patient with bedpan, urinal, bedside commode, bowel and bladder training. Records daily bowel function.
• Applies condom catheters.
• Collects and tests specimens (urine, feces, sputum).
• Administers cleansing, fleet and/or retention enema.
• Provides perineal and catheter care.
• Empties drainage device from body cavities/wounds and records.
• Maintains gastric suction.
• Assists with simple non-sterile dressing changes, application and removal of ace bandages, sequential compression device, heat application, pelvic and cervical traction, application.
• Makes occupied and unoccupied beds.
• Performs pm care to promote patient comfort.
• Takes and records temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure.
• Obtains and records patient weight and height.
• Turns and positions patients.
• Does not initiate but participates in the application and removal of restraint devices as directed by the Registered Nurse or Licensed Care Provider
• Assists in monitoring the patient in restraints for safety, circulation, hydration, nutrition and elimination.
• Assists with postmortem care.
• Provides hand-off communication appropriate to job duties.
• Reports and documents information related to assigned duties.
• Assists with maintaining documentation according to established policies and procedures.
• Assists patients with transfers to bed, wheelchair stretcher.
• Assists with Range of Motion exercises.
• Initiates or participates in CPR.
• Provides continuous observation of a patient or patients when assigned to serve in this capacity.
• Provides continuous observation for assigned patients on suicide precautions or patients in behavior management restraints
• Provides instructions to patients and family members according to approved protocols and/or the plan of care as delegated by and under the supervision of the Registered Nurse. Documents spoken or observed response.
• Performs fingerstick for blood glucose monitoring upon competency verification
• Retrieves blood products (upon competency verification)

Benefits

• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED