Patient Care Tech (PCT) - Inpatient

Job Description:

Under direction and supervision of a Registered Nurse, assists patients with activities of daily living, provides basic nursing care, and performs a variety of procedures, exams and tests. Assists in maintenance of a safe and clean environment and promotes improved customer relations.  

Job Responsibility:

1. Receives work assignments and verbal reports from professional staff during work shift and communicates patient information to the Registered Nurse. Uses two patient identifiers for all care and procedures. Documents observations, vital signs, height, weight, and care in medical record. Observes and reports any change in condition or mental status to nurse. Reports any signs of patient abuse to nurse or nurse manager. Sensitive and supportive toward patient, family, and significant others.  
2. Assists professional staff with examinations, procedures, and treatments including reinforcement of instructions and guidance. Administers therapy, including enemas, sitz baths, warm soaks, cold packs, ace bandages and antiembolic stockings. Applies and removes continuous passive motion (CPM) device and sequential compression device (SCD). Applies posey vests and limb restraints and routinely monitor and document patient’s response to restraints. Performs postmortem care. transports bodies to morgue.   
3. Performs and assists patients with activities of daily living (ADL’s): bathing, grooming, shaving, oral hygiene, with special attention to skin care, perineal care, foot and heel care, turning and positioning, passive and active range of motion exercises, progressive ambulation with or without use of assistive devices, and changing bed linens. Lifts patients and exercises care in moving patients, so as not to aggravate injury or disease. Participates in fall prevention rounds including documentation, as required.  
4. Performs EKGs, phlebotomy and blood glucose testing. takes and records blood pressures. performs visual acuities on request. takes and records temperatures, pulses, respiration, heights, weights and abdominal girths. Reports any deviations from normal to nurse. Collects, labels and sends specimens to laboratory. Reports to nurse the ability or inability to obtain specimens. Tests specimens with diagnostics.  
5. Ensures patient comfort and safety. Promptly responds to call lights, conducts frequent patient rounds for observation. Ensures beds are in appropriate position with wheels locked and that side rails remain in “up” position as indicated.  Ensures patient call bells and bedside articles are within patient reach. Reports findings to professional staff. Provides observation on a one-on-one basis, when required. Reports patients pain scale level to nurse.  
6. Adheres to infection control protocols including handwashing, maintaining a safe, clean patient environment and undertaking standard precautions and isolation precautions.  
7. Assists in achieving nutritional needs. Distributes water pitchers. Prepares patients for meals and nourishment. Assists with menu selection. Serves and collects trays. Feeds patients or assists, as needed. Encourages or restricts fluids. Records and totals intake.
8. Assists with elimination needs. Gives and removes bedpans and urinals. Assists patients to commode or bathroom. Routinely checks patients for incontinence. Applies incontinence devices as instructed. Records and totals outputs (urine, stool, and drainage).  
9. Assists with admissions. Completes clothing lists and checks property, as required. Orients patients to unit environment and escorts or transports patients, as required.
10. Assists with discharges, cleans room, remakes beds, and prepares room for next patient. Stocks rooms and supplies. Maintains cleanliness and orderliness of utility rooms, medication room, kitchen/kitchen cabinets, equipment and storage areas, and nursing areas. Routinely cleans and defrosts unit refrigerator.
11. Performs related duties, as required.

Job Qualification:

• High School Diploma or equivalent, required.   
• Minimum one (1) year of hospital nursing attendant experience in an acute care facility including, but not limited to, EKG machine, blood pressure machine, electronic thermometers, bed scales, bed lifts, hypothermia machines, specialized beds, telephones, pulse oximeters, blood glucose monitoring.  
• Certified Nurse Aide, preferred. 

*Additional Salary Detail 
The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be offered to a successful applicant for this position at the time of this job advertisement and may be modified in the future. When determining a team member's base salary and/or rate, several factors may be considered as applicable (e.g., location, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget and internal equity).