Patient Care Technician - Bariatrics

Overview

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health, we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community.

Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

• 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 guest/patients outcomes through practice, judgment and critical actions
• Ongoing communication with patients, nursing colleagues and other members of the health care team regarding patient's 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 our 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, vitals, and documents findings in patient records; notifies RN immediately of abnormal results
• Draws intravenous or capillary blood from newborn through geriatric patients using proper aseptic collection techniques; ensures proper labeling and processing of specimens
• Performs venipuncture for laboratory tests
• Follows through with designated responsibilities in collecting, labeling, and transporting specimens to the proper area at the appropriate time
• Performs EKGs as directed
• Ensures presence, functionality and cleanliness of equipment; checks and maintains code cart, O2, and other emergency equipment as directed
• Applies bandages, slings, compression boots and hypothermia blankets as directed by RN
• Assists in transporting patients to departments or units upon request
• Assists with preparation to ensure the patient is assisted with meals or fed as needed
• Checks inventory of assigned area and restocks as directed
• Prepares the room environment 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
• Performs and documents glucose finger sticks and collects other specimens as directed
• Provides post mortem care
• Obtains and documents patient weights and monitors intake and output
• Maintains a safe patient environment by answering call lights promptly and communicating with the RN for any change in condition
• Identifies the needs of the patient population served and delivers care that is specific to those needs (age, culture, language, hearing/vision impairment, etc.) and communicates at the patient level
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned
• Adheres to HMH organizational competencies and standards of behavior

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Completion of one of the following:
• Certified Nursing Assistant, Medical Assistant or Patient Care Technician program or
• Fundamentals of Nursing program from an accredited school of nursing or
• HMH PCT Apprenticeship Program
• Or equivalent medical background experience, such as EMT, Home Health Aide, CMA, MA, PCT, Nursing Assistant
• Note:
  
  Candidates not completing one of the programs but meeting other requirements may be considered for the HMH PCT Apprentice Program; if selected, the candidate will be hired as a PCT Apprentice and later…