Patient Care Technician - Full Time
- Provides for patient’s activities of daily living with either total or partial assistance as directed by patient condition:
- Bath or shower
- Oral and/or denture care
- Perineal care
- Turning and repositioning every two hours or greater as indicated by patient need
- Ambulation
- Meal Assistance
- Performs indirect patient care tasks and unit functions: including but not limited to:
- Answers call lights and relays information promptly to the nurses
- Runs errands to obtain medications, supplies, etc.
- Transports specimens
- Inventories supplies; compiles list of needed supplies
- Stocks supplies and patient meds when delivered to facility
- Discharge preparation (packing personal items, transports patient, etc.)
- Cleans and maintains unit and patient equipment
- Assists patients with elimination needs
- Performs simple range of motion
- Performs finger stick blood glucose test
- Performs intake and output measurements (oral, IV, NG, drains, etc.)
- Performs vital sign measurements
- Obtains 12 lead EKGs
- Assists physicians and nurses with special procedures
- Assists with stocking of supplies and assesses inventory needs for medical and general supplies in coordination with the Administrative Secretary/ Materiels Management Coordinator and/or other management staff, and following hospital purchasing protocols
- Cleans and stores dirty hospital equipment for future patient use
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Ability to lift 50 lbs. occasionally, 20 lbs. frequently, and 10 lbs. constantly.
- Ability to walk and stand 80% of an 8 to 12 hour shift.
- Ability to push/pull up to 200 lbs. in order to position patients, move beds, carts, etc., and aid patients in ambulation.
- Must possess sight/hearing senses or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately, so that the requirements of this position can be fully met.
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