Patient Care Technician, 4 South Trauma Job at UPMC Hamot, Erie, PA

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  • UPMC Hamot
  • Erie, PA

Job Description

UPMC Hamot is hiring a full-time Patient Care Technician to join our 4 South Trauma unit!

If you’re passionate about patient care and looking for a career that offers great benefits and plenty of room for growth, we invite you to explore this opportunity today!

Previous patient care experience required. 

Title and salary will be determined based upon education and experience.

Responsibilities:

  • Assist with patient procedures and ADLs, support physical, respiratory, and cardiopulmonary therapies, provide feedback to RN and report changes in patient status.
  • Perform core nursing assistant tasks: blood glucose monitoring, weights, vital signs, I&O, specimen collections, Foley care, plus at least four additional tasks (phlebotomy, 12-lead EKG, simple dressing, Foley catheter removal, point of care testing, bladder scan, straight catheter, IV catheter removal).
  • Report equipment malfunctions, communicate effectively with other departments, maintain professional and respectful relationships.
  • Respond to call lights and telephones, pass meal trays, transport patients.
  • Receive and act on feedback, identify and communicate learning needs, participate in self-review.
  • Provide instruction to patients and families under RN direction, apply, monitor, and remove patient restraints as per protocol.
  • Communicate clearly with healthcare team, understand cultural diversity, horizontal violence, and impairment in health professions, support workplace safety.
  • Follow all patient care and hospital policies, comply with safety policies and standard precautions.
  • Suggest and support departmental changes, assume responsibility for assignments, support department projects and quality initiatives.
  • Document in medical records as per procedures, perform clerical functions as needed.
  • Achieve and maintain competency in advanced skills based on department need (phlebotomy/venipuncture, peripheral IV removal, indwelling Foley catheter removal, basic arrhythmia, 12-lead EKG, NG tubes clamping and removal).

Job Tags

Full time,

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