Patient Care Technician Days Med Surg Telemetry

Patient Care Technician Days Med Surg Telemetry

22 Jun 2024
Texas, San antonio, 78212 San antonio USA

Patient Care Technician Days Med Surg Telemetry

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Description

Patient Care Technician – Metropolitan

Full Time - Days - Non-Exempt

Do you have a passion for healthcare and helping others? Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced, patient-centered environment? Jump-start your career in ourResourcedepartment. Submit your application today!

Seeking a Patient Care Technician to join our team who performs a variety of delegated basic patient care services related to common nursing functions and activities of daily living under the supervision of the registered nurse (RN) in a complementary and assistive role. He/she assists the nursing staff in providing patient care in accordance to the PCT’s training, competence and skill, hospital policies and procedures and the Texas Board of Nursing rules for delegated nursing tasks to unlicensed personnel (Rule 224.6). Consistently assists the patient care team with maintaining a clean, well-organized, adequately stocked and safe patient environment.

Benefits:

We want to ensure your needs are met. We offer a variety of comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans along with some unique benefits including:

  • Student Loan Repayment Program
  • Tuition Reimbursement/Assistance Programs
  • Paid Time Off
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Moving, mortgage, and real estate assistance
  • 100% matching 401k based on years of service
  • Identity Theft Protection discounts
  • Auto, Home, and Life Insurance options
  • Adoption Assistance
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

What you will do in this role:

  • Under the supervision of the RN, performs delegated patient care activities as directed and ordered in accordance with one’s training, competence and skill. Delegated tasks may include:
    • Obtaining vital signs, height and weight, intake and output, calorie counts, and/or simple non-sterile dressing changes
    • Safe patient handling: Turning and positioning, use of specialty beds, patient transfer and use of transfer devices, ambulation assistance and use of assistive devices, restraint alternatives, oxygen use and transport, suction use, pre-operative skin preparation and/or use of sequential compression devices (SCD)
    • Specimen collection to include blood collection for bedside glucose testing
  • Consistently assists with maintaining a safe patient environment to include:
    • Addressing identified hazards in the physical environment of the patient room to prevent patient falls
    • Hand hygiene and consistent use of standard precautions
    • Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) as appropriate following transmission based precautions procedures
  • Communicates timely and accurate information for delegated patient care activities performed to include observed patient response to performed activities to the assigned RN in a written or verbal format following hand-off communication guidelines.
  • Assists the RN to collect data from patients on admission for patient processing and assists with patient transfer or discharge preparations as instructed.
  • Assists patients with performing activities of daily living to include bathing, shaving, oral care, toileting, grooming, changing linens, providing water, assisting with meal delivery and feeding as directed.
  • Performs hourly rounding, consistently uses AIDET when interacting with patients and answers and responds to call lights timely.

Experience:

  • Preferred: Previous PCT, Nurse aide, orderly experience in a healthcare setting OR ONE of the following:
    • Completion of a CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) training program AND CNA certification with the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services on hire.
    • Completion of an EMS (Emergency Medical System) training program AND
    • EMT certification with the Texas Department of State Health Services on hire.
    • MHS employee in an LVN job description as of December 1, 2011.

Methodist Hospital Northeast has played a major role in the phenomenal economic growth experienced in northeast Bexar County. With over 170 beds, the hospital offers a full array of services including 24/7 emergency care, open heart surgery, cardiac catheterizations, vascular, neurosurgery, inpatient rehabilitation, orthopedic surgery, cancer care, intensive care and inpatient and outpatient surgeries and procedures. It is home to the Joint Replacement Academy offering the latest treatment options for knee and hip pain, as well as a neurosurgical program offering services from elective spine surgeries to advanced and comprehensive brain and spine care.

We are recognized by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association as a Certified Primary Stroke Center; the American College of Cardiology as an Accredited Chest Pain Center with Primary PCI; and by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for having a Pathway to Excellence Program. Methodist Hospital Northeast has received the Mission: Lifeline® Bronze Receiving Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures outlined by the American Heart Association for the treatment of patients who suffer severe heart attacks and the Texas Award for Performance Excellence. The hospital has also been nationally recognized by Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Grade A. For more information, please visit our website at www.sahealth.com and select Methodist Hospital Northeast under Locations.

Be a part of an organization that invests in you. We are actively reviewing applications. Qualified candidates will be promptly contacted by our hiring managers for interviews. Submit your application today and help us raise the bar in patient care!


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Job Details

  • ID
    JC43460598
  • State
  • City
  • Job type
    HOS
  • Salary
    TBD
  • Hiring Company
    Methodist Hospital Metropolitan
  • Date
    2022-06-16
  • Deadline
    2022-08-15
  • Category

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