Patient Care Technician

About Us

We’re Maimonides Health, Brooklyn’s largest healthcare system, serving over 250,000 patients each year through the system’s 3 hospitals, 1800 physicians and healthcare professionals, more than 80 community-based practices and outpatient centers. At Maimonides Health, our core values H.E.A.R.T drives everything we do. We uphold and maintain Honesty, Empathy, Accountability, Respect, and Teamwork to empower our talented team, engage our respective communities and adhere to Planetree's philosophy of patient-centered care.

The system is anchored by Maimonides Medical Center, one of the nation’s largest independent teaching hospitals and home to centers of excellence in numerous specialties;
Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (formerly New York Community Hospital), a 130‑bed adult medical-surgical hospital; and Maimonides Children's Hospital, Brooklyn’s only children’s hospital and only pediatric trauma center. Maimonides’ clinical programs rank among the best in the country for patient outcomes, including its Heart and Vascular Institute, Neuroscience Institute, Bone and Joint Center, and Cancer Center. Maimonides is an affiliate of Northwell Health and a major clinical training site for SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

Under the supervision of a Registered Nurse, performs basic, routine duties related directly and indirectly to patient care.

• DIRECT PATIENT CARE
• Obtains and records patient’s temperature (oral, rectal, temporal), pulse, respirations, blood pressure, pulse oximetry reading, and reports deviations from age-appropriate norms to primary or charge nurse.
• Performs vein punctures, EKG and blood glucose monitoring as needed; accesses labs in MACS/Sunquest.
• Assists patient with activities of daily living—including skin care (e.g., bathes, oral care, dress, helps patient ambulate, assists/feeds patient).
• Applies antithrombotic stockings under the directions of the RN.
• Assists with correctly positioning and turning patients in both bed and chair.
• Collects and sends specimens (e.g., urine, stool, sputum, blood).
• Performs Foley catheter care and administers fleet enemas.
• Records intake (oral) and output (e.g., urinary, GI tubes, drains, vomitus, colostomy) accurately.
• Obtains and records height and weight of patient.
• Cares for patients in restraints as per Hospital Policy PROF #62.
• Assists RN with cardiac support and monitoring; applies cardiac monitor, admits/discharges from monitor and reports basic observations regarding skin color and moisture to the RN.
• Assists physician/nurse with treatments, diagnostic procedures (e.g., positions and holds patient).
• Communicates effectively with Primary and/or Charge Nurse and other members of the health‑care team regarding patient’s needs, requests and/or changes in patient’s condition.
• Initiates age‑appropriate skin‑care bundle for all patients at risk for pressure ulcers, incontinent patients and patients with stage I pressure ulcers.
• Assists RN with respiratory support (not initial application), applies O₂ face mask, nasal cannula, pulse oximetry, oral suctioning, chest PT and incentive spirometer; prepares equipment for trach care.
• Answers all call lights and patient requests in a timely fashion.
• Downloads EKG’s and retrieves EKG’s from database.
• Transports patients to other rooms on current patient‑care unit.
• Performs hand‑off communication at bedside.
• Prepares equipment and patient for treatments or invasive procedures (e.g., sets up rooms, gathers equipment and trays, applies simple non‑sterile dressings).
• Prepares pre‑ and post‑operative beds; moves beds/furniture as necessary.
• Keeps patient unit and non‑patient unit clean (e.g., wipes tables, cleans area, clean‑up after procedures, cleans equipment between patients).
  Prepares area/unit with proper equipment for admission, transfer or discharge of patient.
• Answers telephones, prepares admission/discharge charts as required.
• Stocks and maintains supplies and equipment in area as directed (par level); reports need to restock to manager and/or designee.
• Applies principles of infection control by following proper handwashing techniques, and isolation precautions.
• Makes frequent patient…