Patient Care Technician - East Brain Trauma Unit - Nights

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Patient Care Technician - East Brain Trauma Unit - Full Time Nights

JOHNSON REHABILITATION Edison, New Jersey

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• Shift: Night
• Status:
Full Time with Benefits

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.

• 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 (temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, O2 saturation) and documents findings in patient record; notifies RN immediately of abnormal results.
• Draws intravenous or capillary blood from newborn through geriatric patients using proper aseptic collection techniques, labeling and processing specimens to expedite throughput.
• Performs venipuncture for laboratory tests.
• Follows through with collecting, labeling, and transporting specimens to the proper area, ensuring correct labeling with patient name and room number.
• Performs EKG for patients as directed.
• Ensures presence, functionality, and cleanliness of necessary equipment; checks and maintains code cart, O2, and other emergency equipment as directed.
• Applies bandages, slings, compression boots and hypothermia blankets according to standard as directed by RN.
• Assists in the transport of patients to departments or units upon request.
• Assists with preparation and meals/feeding as needed.
• Checks inventory of assigned area and restocks as directed.
• Prepares room environment for admission.
• Provides direct hygiene and comfort care (bathing, toileting, oral hygiene, incontinent care, bed making).
• Assists patients with dressing/undressing and manages patient belongings with property checklist; return of clothing to family as applicable.
• Performs and documents glucose finger sticks and collects other specimens as directed.
• Provides post mortem care when applicable.
• Obtains and…