Patient Care Technician - Neuroscience Unit - Pt Nights

PATIENT CARE TECHNICIAN - NEUROSCIENCE UNIT - PT NIGHTS WITH BENEFITS (11PM-7:30AM)

Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey

• Requisition #:
• Shift: Night
• Status:
  Part‑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 guests/patients served in assigned service.
• Ensure effective and safe outcomes through practice, judgment, and critical actions.
• Maintain ongoing communication with patients, nursing colleagues, and other team members regarding patient status and rendered care.
• Take self‑directed initiative to do more than is expected, improving performance and creating new opportunities.
• Participate in interdisciplinary collaboration of the patient’s plan of care from admission to discharge to ensure safe transitions and continuum of care.
• Participate in Unit/Department Performance Improvement activities.
• Specific job functions 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 age‑appropriate care.
  • Obtains clinical data (temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, O₂ saturation) and documents findings in the patient record, notifying the RN of abnormal results.
  • Draws intravenous or capillary blood from newborn to geriatric patients using aseptic techniques and properly labels specimens.
  • Performs venipuncture for laboratory tests.
  • Performs EKG for patients as directed.
  • Assures presence, functionality, and cleanliness of all necessary equipment; checks and maintains code cart, O₂, and other emergency medical equipment.
  • Applies bandages, slings, compression boots, and hypothermia blankets as directed by the RN.
  • Assists in patient transport to departments or units upon request.
  • Assists with meal preparation and feeding as needed.
  • Checks inventory of assigned area and restocks as directed.
  • Ensures room environment is prepared for admission.
  • Provides direct hygiene and comfort care (bathing, toileting, oral hygiene, incontinent care, bed making).
  • Assists patients with dressing, undressing, and placing belongings in properly labeled property bags.
  • 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.
  • Ensures safe environment by answering call lights promptly and communicating changes to the RN.
  • Adapts care to the needs of the patient population served, including culturally and linguistically tailored care.
  • Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
• Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent.
• Completion of one of the following:
  Certified Nursing Assistant, Medical Assistant, Patient Care Technician program;
  Fundamentals of Nursing program from an accredited nursing school; HMH PCT Apprenticeship Program; or equivalent medical background experience (EMT, Home Health Aide, CMA, MA, PCT, Nursing Assistant). Candidates who have not completed a program but meet other requirements may be considered for the PCT Apprenticeship Program.
• Ability to learn quickly, adapt to changing patient needs, demonstrate strong accountability, teamwork, dedication to ongoing education, and passion for delivering high‑quality…