Patient Care Technician | 36 hours per week | Telemetry

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Completion of C.N.A. course (or complete within four months of hire date)
• •Health care experience within the last five years
• •Computer experience
• •Emergency First Response and Choking within 90 days of hire
• •MOAB within 12 months of hire
• •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
• •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