Patient Care Tech Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• High school degree or equivalent.
• Certification or completion of one of the following: Certified Nursing Assistant, Medical Assistant, Emergency Medical Technician, Military Corpsmen/Medic, or Nursing Aide Training Program.
• Experience within a healthcare environment, or completion of a foundations/clinical nursing course and one clinical rotation.
• AHA BLS HCP Certification or equivalent.
• Knowledge of patient data collection and documentation, including vital signs, intake/output, and changes in patient condition.
• Knowledge of basic hygiene and activities-of-daily-living care.
• Ability to assist with feeding, hydration, and nutrition.
• Ability to assist with ambulation and patient mobility.
• Ability to provide safe, compassionate care and accountability for completing assigned tasks.
• Ability to wear personal protective equipment as needed.
• Knowledge and skills to provide equitable, age-appropriate care across the lifespan, including understanding growth and development and interpreting patient data in relation to age-specific needs.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias.

Nice To Haves

• Certified Nursing Assistant credential.
• Acute care experience as a nursing assistant or aide.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe, direct, age-appropriate care to patients in the assigned unit under the direction of an RN or licensed independent practitioner.
• Provide direct and indirect care to meet patients’ comfort, personal hygiene, safety, feeding, hydration, nutrition, and mobility needs.
• Follow nursing and medical plans of care and VCUHS nursing and hospital policies and procedures.
• Monitor patients’ conditions and report updates, physical or mental responses to care, and incidents that could harm or threaten a patient to the appropriate licensed practitioner, manager, or RN.
• Obtain and record initial and ongoing patient information, including admissions data, vital signs, height and weight, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, intake and output, and calorie counts.
• Obtain or assist with the collection of specimens for diagnostic or waived tests.
• Maintain a safe, clean, and stocked clinical location and maintain supplies, educational materials, equipment, and, as applicable, sterilization of supplies, instruments, and the environment.
• Accurately identify patients and follow safety goals and initiatives.
• Attend mandatory in-services and training and complete online training requirements.
• Establish and maintain courteous, effective rapport with patients, visitors, coworkers, and other healthcare team members; respond promptly to instructions and demonstrate sensitivity to their needs.
• Use universal precautions and personal protective equipment as required and follow infection-control policies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.