Patient Care Technician - Howell, United States - Trinity Health

Description

Employment Type:
Part time


Shift:
Evening Shift


Description:

Under the direction of a registered nurse, the patient care technician is responsible for direct patient care considering age specific, developmental, cultural and spiritual needs.

Demonstrates unit/area-designated competencies. Assists in establishing and maintaining a patient care environment that is clean, safe and conducive to patient/family wellbeing. Behaves in accordance with concepts of relationship-based care and the policies and procedures of the institution.


ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Demonstrates excellent communication with team members:

• Takes initiative in reporting patient needs, abnormal findings and condition changes to RN
• Actively participates in structured and informal handoffs
• Performs purposeful hourly rounding
• Promptly responds to patient requests

Performs nursing care as delegated by the RN in an effort to identify/attain treatment goals such as:

• Records/calculates intake and output, obtains weights
• Applies support/orthopedic devices such as support hose and compression devices
• Obtains routine vital signs and temperature and as directed
• Assists the patient with coughing, deep breathing, use of incentive spirometer, oral suctioning
• Applies warm/cold therapies (heating pads, ice packs, cryocuff, hot ice machine and warm soaks)
• Provides care of the restrained patient including general care, application of the restraint and ongoing monitoring of the restrained patient
• Care and removal of Foley catheters
• Routine oxygen therapy, pulse oximetry
• Assist with prevention of hospital acquired complications such as a fall, pressure injury, CAUTI, CLABSI, CDI etc.
• Serves as second staff member for double check of blood product(s) prior to administration
• Assist in preparing the body following death

Assists patient in completing ADLs including:

• Bathing, showering, toileting, positioning, turning, transferring & ambulation using assistive devices as needed and appropriate
• Assists with feeding and menu selection
• Distributes/collects nourishments and orders late trays
• Answers call lights

Demonstrates clean, sterile or aseptic technique as appropriate when performing delegated activities such as:

• Collects and sends specimens including blood and blood cultures
• Inserts and removes peripheral IV catheters (not to include regulating drip rate of infusion)
• Competency based point of care testing such as blood glucose
• Applies simple dressing to clean wounds of stage I or stage II depth (partial thickness) following assessment of the RN (does not include dressings that require topical ointments, gels, creams, packing or ace wraps)
• Secures complex dressings that have been changed by other caregivers.
• Performs PEG care and dressing changes
• Uses appropriate PPE

Records patient information and required data in EMR.

Assists in establishing and maintaining a patient care environment that is clean, safe, and conducive to patient/family well being

• Documents all patient belongings upon admission
• Prepare patient room for arrival/ assists in transfers and or discharge of patients
• Orients patient/family/visitors to patient room, unit, waiting area and facilities
• Assists patient/family in the use of hospital equipment (telephone, lights, television)
• Makes occupied and unoccupied beds
• Collects and disposes of soiled linen
• Cleans and maintains equipment according to procedures

Completes delegated unit specific activities such as:

• Gathers post procedural data after initial nursing assessment such as vital signs, circumcision checks
• Empties drains and records output
• Places patients on monitors/telemetry and maintains lead placement
• Clean intermittent urinary catheterization
• Checks/restocks unit emergency equipment/supplies and nurse servers
• Bottle feeds infants.
• Assist new breastfeeding mothers with latching and positioning of infant, set-up of breast pump and initiation of pumping
• Completes and documents newborn hearing screen
• Performs other unit specific duties as delegated

Demonstrates effective organizational and time management skills that support patient and unit goals. Demonstrates cost effective use of unit resources such as supplies and equipment.

Attends and completes all mandatory educations programs and seeks ongoing learning experiences by attending appropriate in-services and continuing education.

Maintains good rapport and cooperative relationships. Approaches conflict in a constructive manner. Helps to identify problems, offer solutions, and participate in their resolution.

Maintains the confidentiality of information acquired pertaining to patient, physicians, colleagues, and visitors to St. Joseph Mercy Health. Discusses patient and hospital information only among appropriate personnel in appropriately private places.

Behaves in accordance with the Code of Conduct, Service Excellence Standards, and the Mission, Vision and Values of SJMH.

Assumes responsibility for performance of job duties in the safest possible manner, to assure personal safety and that of coworkers, and to report all preventable hazards and unsafe practices immediately to management.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, AND LICENSURE

Education:
High school diploma or GED

Experience:

Preferred one year of previous direct care experience (acute or long term) or successful completion of CENA, PCT, MA, or EMT course or if a student nurse, must have completed the nursing fundamentals class of RN program.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Interpersonal skills necessary to effectively communicate with patients, families, and other employees

Ability to follow instructions, record patient information, prioritize assigned tasks and organize work.

Concentrate and pay close attention to details for over 90% of time

Able to work in area with potential exposure to infectious agents and/or contaminants.

Basic computer skills such as use of e-mail and simple word processing

Maintains BLS certification

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation.

Built on the foundation of our Mission and Core Values, we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do.

Our colleagues have different lived experiences, customs, abilities, and talents. Together, we become our best selves. A diverse and inclusive workforce provides the most accessible and equitable care for those we serve. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states.

Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes.

We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

EOE including disability/veteran