Our hospital provides high-quality care that transforms the lives of those living with disabling injuries and illnesses. The Patient Care Technician, working under the direct supervision of Registered Nurse, is primarily responsible for providing direct, non-invasive bedside care to patients.
Requirements
- Prioritizes and delivers basic patient care
- Performs and documents vital signs, measures and records intake and output, weights, specimen collections, etc.
- Transfers patients utilizing proper body mechanics and safe patient handling techniques
- Reports any changes observed in condition or behavior of patient to appropriate nursing personnel
- Assists in preparing unit, patient rooms, and patient beds for receiving patient admissions
- Maintains bed and room in a clean, neat, safe, and comfortable manner
- Removes supplies and equipment not in use
- Assists in maintaining a physical, social, and psychological environment conducive to providing maximal patient comfort and optimizing healing
- Promptly and appropriately responds to patient and family calls and requests
- Appropriately designates applicable charges to individual patients using hospital’s established system
- Provides an environment conducive to safety for patients, visitors, and staff
- Assesses environmental risks for safety and implements appropriate precautions
- Maintains regular attendance in keeping with assigned work schedule
- Performs other duties as assigned to support overall effectiveness of the organization
