Patient Care Technician - Bariatrics

Patient Care Technician - Bariatrics - F/T with Benefits Day

JFK University Medical Center Edison, New Jersey

Requisition #

Shift: Day

Status:
Full Time with Benefits

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 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 health care team members 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 activities
• 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, monitors vital signs, and documents findings in patient records; notifies RN of abnormal results
• Draws intravenous or capillary blood from newborn through geriatric patients using proper aseptic collection techniques; labels and processes specimens to expedite throughput
• Performs venipuncture for laboratory tests
• Follows through with collecting, labeling, and transporting specimens, ensuring proper labeling and timely delivery
• Performs EKG for patients as directed
• Maintains equipment, code cart, O2, and other emergency equipment as directed
• Applies bandages, slings, compression boots and hypothermia blankets as directed by RN
• Assists in transport of patients within departments/units
• Assists with meals and feeding as needed
• Checks inventory and restocks as directed
• Prepares rooms for admission and provides direct hygiene and comfort care (bathing, toileting, oral hygiene, incontinent care, bed making)
• Assists with dressing and belongings, and monitors return of clothing to family
• Performs and documents glucose finger sticks and collects other specimens as directed
• Provides post mortem care
• Obtains and documents patient weights and records intake and output
• Maintains a safe patient environment by responding to call lights and communicating changes in condition to the RN
• Delivers care tailored to patient population needs (age, culture, language, impairments) and communicates appropriately with patients and caregivers
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned
• Adheres to 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 such as EMT, Home Health Aide, CMA, MA, PCT, Nursing Assistant

Note:

Candidates not completing a program 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 may transfer to the Patient Care Technician role after successful completion of the program.

• Ability to learn quickly, adaptability to changing patient needs, accountability, teamwork, and commitment to ongoing education
• AHA Basic Health Care Life Support for Health Care Providers Certification within 60 days of hire
• Phlebotomy and EKG/vital signs experience or certification preferred
• At least 1 year PCT or CNA experience in a hospital setting strongly preferred or eligible for the HMH PCT apprentice program
• Certified Nursing Assistant, Certified Medical Assistant or Patient Care Technician who has completed a PCT program including Phlebotomy, EKG, and nursing assistant coursework

If you feel that the above description speaks directly to your strengths and capabilities, then please apply today!

• Minimum rate of $20.32 hourly

HMH is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted rate is a reasonable good faith estimate of the minimum base pay at the time of posting and does not reflect the full value of our rewards package.