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Metro Health Patient Care Technician - Telemetry in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Metro Health has an urgent need for Patient Care Technician - Telemetry
- Nights - 36hrs/wk Shift: Nights (7p-7a)
- Nights - 24hrs/wk
- Nights - 12hrs/wk
- Days - 12hrs/wk
- Days - 36hrs/wk
- Nights - Resource
Scheduled shifts will vary across all days.
General Summary:
Under the direction of a Registered Nurse (RN), the Patient Care Technician (PCT) provides basic nursing care to patients and performs related tasks necessary to support the unit.
Requirements:
- Minimum High School Diploma or GED required.
- Must meet one of the following requirements:
- Current Certified Nurse Aide (CENA) certification
- Current enrollment (and continued progression) in a nursing program in which a nursing fundamentals course and at least one clinical rotation have been completed
- Equivalent experience. Equivalent experience considered will include but is not limited to: Medical Assistant, Paramedic, Medical First Responder, EMT, Nurse Tech, Resident Aid/Assistant, or LPN.
- Basic understanding of Medical Terminology, Anatomy, Physiology, and Patient Confidentiality is preferred.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS/CPR) provider required.
- Experience in acute care or extended care facility preferred.
- Able to successfully complete unit-specific core competencies as defined in the orientation check-list.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
ACTIVITY / COMFORT: Assist patients with activity of daily living and provides for patient comfort. This responsibility includes making occupied and unoccupied beds; turning and positioning patients in bed; ambulating and dangling patients; transfers patients; performs passive and assisting with active range-of-motion exercises.
HYGIENE: Assist patients with hygiene activities.
PROCEDURES: Indwelling urinary catheter care (excluding insertion, removal and irrigation); changing non-sterile dressings; providing ileostomy/colostomy care.
Assisting with postmortem care.
NUTRITION: Assist patients with nutrition including passing trays, snacks and drinking water; feeding patients; and measuring and recording intake from dietary trays.
ELIMINATION: Assist patients with elimination needs recording accurate input and output. Empties other drains as designated by the RN.
SPECIMEN COLLECTION: Collects and labels sputum, urine, and stool specimens for laboratory testing; testing urine for sugar, acetone, blood or pH; straining urine for kidney stones; and using the glucometer to test blood glucose levels.
VITAL SIGNS / MEASUREMENT: Measures and record accurate vital signs and weight including oral and tympanic temperature, radial and apical pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate; and using standing, chair, sling and bed scales to measure weight.
EQUIPMENT: Uses equipment and supplies safely and appropriately. This includes assisting patients with incentive spirometry; setting up oxygen flow meters; setting up suction equipment and disposing of suction canisters; and applying and removing ice bags, moist or dry heat, ace bandages, arm slings, binders, supports, anti-embolism stockings, sequential compression devices (SCDs), restraints.
INFECTION CONTROL: Assists with controlling the spread of infection by using aseptic technique; adhering to universal/standard precautions; caring appropriately for patients with special isolation precautions; passing clean linen and bagging and disposing of soiled linen; replacing full sharps containers; cleaning equipment between patients' use; and cleaning equipment prior to return to Central Processing Department (CPD).
DOCUMENTATION: Document care given as directed by the RN.
COMMUNICATION: Communicates effectively us