Patient Care Technician - East Brain Trauma Unit - Nights

Overview

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Join Our Brain Trauma Unit at JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute. JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, ranked among the nation’s top rehabilitation hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, is seeking dedicated professionals to join our Brain Trauma Unit, an acute inpatient program providing comprehensive care for adults recovering from brain injuries. Our unit uses an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to support patients and their families.

At the heart of our care is exceptional rehabilitation nursing, ensuring that patients’ medical and functional needs are met with expertise and compassion. Our nurses work closely with the team to manage complex conditions, deliver personalized care, and promote recovery.

In addition to nursing, the Brain Trauma Unit offers intensive rehabilitation services, including physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, recreational therapy, neuropsychology, social work, and rehabilitation medicine. Patients admitted to the unit are medically stable and ready to engage in a personalized plan designed to restore function and independence.

If you’re passionate about making a difference in the lives of others and contributing to an exceptional standard of care, consider joining our dedicated team. Together, we can transform challenges into opportunities for recovery and success.

• Provide patient care, based on physical, psychosocial, education, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the age of the guests/patients served in assigned service.
• Provide for effective and safe patient outcomes through practice, judgment and critical actions; ongoing communication with patients, nursing colleagues and other members of the health care team regarding patient status and rendered care.
• Take self-directed or self-motivated initiative to do more than is expected or required in the job, acting before being required to by events, improving job performance, and/or creating new opportunities.
• Participate in interdisciplinary collaboration of the patient’s plan of care from admission to discharge to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.
• Participate in Unit/Department Performance Improvement (PI) activities. Specific job functions may include but are not limited to: welcomes patients and checks for proper identification bracelets; prepares the patient for assessment/admission, physical examination and procedures; recognizes and responds to opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction; demonstrates the knowledge and skill necessary to provide care appropriate to age of patients on the unit; obtains clinical data, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, O2 saturation and documents findings in patient record;
  
  notifies RN immediately of abnormal results.
• Performs venipuncture for laboratory tests and draws intravenous or capillary blood from newborn through geriatric patients using proper aseptic technique; ensures proper labeling and processing of specimens to expedite throughput of patients.
• Assists with transportation of patients; assists with meals and/or feeding as needed.
• Checks inventory of assigned area and restocks as directed; ensures room is prepared for admission; provides direct hygiene and comfort care to patients including bathing, toileting, oral hygiene, incontinent care, and bed making.
• Assists patients with dressing/undressing and manages patient belongings with property checklist; monitors return of clothing to family.
• Performs and documents glucose finger sticks and collects other specimens as directed; provides post-mortem care as needed.
• Obtains and documents patient weights and monitors intake and output; maintains a safe patient environment by answering call lights and communicating any change in…