Patient Care Technician | 36 hours per week | Medical Surgical Unit
$39,291–$39,291 year
On-siteFort Madison, Iowa, United States
Job Summary
Answer patients' call lights, perform skin assessments, and report abnormal results to the licensed nurse. Conduct activities of daily living, maintain clean patient rooms, and collect and label specimens. Monitor intake and output, vital signs, and blood glucose levels, documenting all activities in the medical record accurately. Assist with patient mobility, transport patients to treatment units, and turn and reposition patients to prevent pressure ulcers. Facilitate admissions, discharges, and transfers while operating office equipment such as nurse call systems and computers. Maintain supply inventory and perform quality checks on medical equipment.
Required Qualifications
- Completion of C.N.A. course (or complete within four months of hire date)
- Computer experience
- Health care experience within the last five years
- Dependent Adult Abuse Mandatory Reporter - Iowa Department of Human Services within 180 Days
- Child Abuse Iowa Mandatory Reporter - Iowa Department of Human Services within 180 Days
- Certified Nursing Assistant within 120 Days
- Emergency First Response and Choking within 90 days of hire
- MOAB within 12 months of hire
- Restraint training completed after hire
Desired Qualifications
- Answer patients' call lights in a timely manner and addresses request or reports to co-worker to fulfill the request
- Perform skin assessment and reports abnormal results to licensed nurse in a timely manner
- Perform activities of daily living (ADL's)
- Maintain clean patient rooms and changes linens, as appropriate
- Collect and correctly label specimens, such as urine, feces, or sputum
- Deliver messages, documents, and specimens
- Feed patients who are unable to feed themselves
- Observe patients' conditions, such as measuring and recording intake and output and vital signs, report changes to professional staff in a timely manner
- Maintain inventory of supplies based on unit routine
- Provide patients with help walking, exercising, and moving in and out of bed
- Transport patients to treatment units, using a wheelchair or stretcher
- Turn and reposition patients, alone or with assistance, to prevent pressure ulcers
- Proactively monitors patients for safety and communicates to licensed nurse the need for any monitoring devices (alarms)
- Consistently uses patient safety devices
- Document activities performed in the medical record in an accurate and timely manner
- Perform blood glucose monitoring and report abnormal results to licensed nurse in a timely manner
- Perform quality monitoring as directed: BGM, etc
- Appropriate use of bed/chair alarms for fall prevention
- Greet visitors and callers to ascertain purpose of visit or call, and direct them to appropriate staff
- Facilitate admissions, discharges and transfers in collaboration with other staff
- Assemble, clean sheet, and tear down medical records
- Operate office equipment such as: nurse call, fax, scanners, photocopier, computer system, telephone system, telemetry
- Accurate and timely order entry
- Perform various clerical and administrative functions, such as ordering and maintaining an inventory of supplies
- Perform quality checks on equipment, i.e. crash cart, transport monitor
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