Unit Tech Level II PICU

DRISCOLL HEALTH PLAN • Edinburg, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This position provides general clerical, equipment, and patient care support to patient care units. The role requires maintaining utmost confidentiality, adhering to hospital policies, and demonstrating ethical conduct. Responsibilities include managing communication devices, making basic entries into the electronic medical record, recording patient data, and transcribing orders. The role also involves managing room supplies, checking expiration dates, ordering supplies, cleaning equipment, and cleaning toys. Additionally, the position handles infectious materials, transports specimens, blood, and surgical instruments, and manages infectious waste. Patient care support includes managing urine collection devices, emptying bedpans, reinforcing patient education, transporting patients, discontinuing peripheral IVs, and obtaining various specimens.

Requirements

• Graduate from a Nurse Aide School
• Nurse Aide Certification
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (CPR) continuously maintained.
• Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NCI) or other DHS deemed relevant course equivalent within 6 months of hire and maintained continuously thereafter.

Responsibilities

• Maintains utmost level of confidentiality at all times.
• Adheres to hospital policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines.
• Clerical duties: respond to communication devices such as phone/vocera/call bells, able to complete basic entries into the electronic medical record; records patient data in EMR, transcribes written orders
• Room/Patient care/Equipment management: stocks supplies, checks for expiration dates, orders supplies, cleans equipment, cleans toys
• Infectious material exposure: transports blood borne pathogen or other patient specimens, picks up blood from blood bank and delivers to the unit; sprays surgical instruments with enzymatic cleanser and prepares/transports them for processing, packages or moves infectious waste containers for disposal; may provide in rooms support for patients on airborne precautions
• Patient care support: measures, records and empties urine collection devices, empties bedpans/commodes, reinforces established education material or room orientation with patients/families; transports patients off unit for tests/procedures, discontinues Peripheral IV’s, obtains Point of Care specimens and urine, wound, stool throat and nasal specimens.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree