Patient Care Technician Jobs in San Jose, AZ

About The Position

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED.
• Meet CMS-approved state and/or national certification requirements within the required state or CMS timeline.
• Meet applicable state licensure, education, and training requirements.
• Demonstrate commitment to the organization's culture, values, and customer service standards.
• Successfully complete the organization's dialysis training program and CPR certification; continued employment is dependent on successful completion.
• Ability to perform the physical demands described, including frequent and prolonged standing, bending, patient lifting and movement, and lifting or lowering solutions and equipment.

Nice To Haves

• Previous patient care experience in a hospital setting or related facility.

Responsibilities

• Welcome assigned patients and ask about their wellbeing since their last treatment.
• Assess vascular access for patency, cannulate access, and administer heparin when delegated or permitted by state law.
• Obtain and document pre-, intra-, and post-treatment vital signs, weights, and vascular-access evaluations.
• Initiate, monitor, and discontinue dialysis treatments according to prescribed orders and established procedures.
• Calculate and enter prescribed dialysis machine programming, including ultrafiltration goals, treatment time, and UF modeling.
• Ensure appropriate machine safety alarms are enabled and conduct machine safety checks and required pretreatment alarm testing, including Pressure Holding testing.
• Assess patients’ responses to dialysis, address intradialytic problems with prescribed or directed interventions, document responses, and report significant changes or unusual findings to a registered nurse or supervisor.
• Monitor vascular-access pressures during treatment, provide appropriate interventions, and document and report unusual findings.
• Obtain hemostasis, apply appropriate dressings, evaluate patients before discharge, and perform other functions required to end treatment safely.
• Obtain prescribed laboratory tests; prepare, label, store, and arrange collection of specimens according to laboratory requirements.
• Prepare, organize, and use supplies and equipment efficiently to prevent wastage.
• Monitor patients performing self-care under RN supervision.
• Assist with training applicable direct patient care staff on appropriate programs under nurse supervision.
• Maintain a safe, clean environment; clean and disinfect dialysis machines, chairs, equipment, and surrounding areas between treatments; and promptly clean blood spills using appropriate disinfectant.
• Initiate the Solution Delivery System and complete tasks needed to prepare for dialysis treatment.
• Participate in CQI activities and enter treatment data accurately and promptly in the designated clinical application.
• Review treatment sheets for completeness, confirm nursing signatures, and ensure omitted entries are completed or corrected by appropriate staff.
• Prepare initial patient charts and paperwork, and prepare and print laboratory requisitions for prescribed or stat specimens.
• Assist with infection-control audits, support adherence to infection-control practices, follow infection-control policies and procedures, and reinforce patient and family education as directed and allowed by state law.
• For the Transitional Care Unit, follow newly admitted patients through their first four weeks of dialysis and coordinate transitional dialysis care.
• Reinforce education and care matters for new patients as allowed by state law, and liaise with appropriate staff to coordinate care and patient appointments according to the plan.
• Help patients understand home dialysis products, home-treatment benefits, and treatment options, including demonstrating peritoneal dialysis setup.
• Assist with coordination of the patient's transition to their chosen modality, set up and perform treatments on TCU machines, and assist with TCU supply ordering and inventory.