Patient Care Technician - Anesthesia Care Unit

Patient Care Technician – Anesthesia Care Unit – Full Time (Days 6am-2:30pm)

Location:

Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey

Shift: Day

Requisition #:

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.

The Patient Care Technician functions as a caregiver for a specific patient population in order to achieve desired outcomes. This position focuses on expanding knowledge and skills, provides effective direct and indirect care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. Under the direction and supervision of the registered nurse, promotes patient satisfaction, comfort and safety. Assists with a variety of patient, unit and environment-related tasks.

Participates in patient safety initiatives.

• Provide patient care based on physical, psychosocial, education, safety and related criteria appropriate to the age of the patient served in assigned service.
• Take self-directed or self-motivated initiative to go beyond what is expected, acting before being required and improving performance or creating new opportunities.
• Communicate continuously with patients and nursing colleagues regarding patient status and rendered care.
• Participate in interdisciplinary collaboration of the patient’s plan of care from admission to discharge to ensure safe transition and continuum of care.
• Participate in unit and 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.
• Obtains clinical data, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, O2 saturation and documents findings in the patient record and notifies RN immediately of abnormal results.
• Draws intravenous or capillary blood from newborn through geriatric aged patients using proper aseptic collection techniques, assures appropriate labeling and processing of specimens to expedite throughput of patients.
• Performs venipuncture for laboratory tests.
• Performs EKG for patients as directed.
• Assures the presence, functionality and cleanliness of all necessary equipment.
• 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 ensuring the patient is assisted with meals or fed as needed.
• Checks inventory of assigned area and restocks as directed.
• Provides direct hygiene and comfort care to patients including bathing, toileting, oral hygiene, incontinent care and bed making.
• Performs and documents glucose finger sticks and collects other specimens as directed.
• Provides post mortem care.
• Obtains and documents patient weights and observes and documents patient intake and output.
• Identifies the needs of the patient population served and modifies and delivers care that is specific to those needs not limited to age, culture, language, hearing and visually impaired.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.

• High School diploma, GED, or equivalent.
• Completion of one of the following:
  Certified Nursing Assistant, Medical Assistant or Patient Care Technician program;
  Fundamentals of Nursing program; HMH PCT Apprenticeship Program—or equivalent medical background experience such as EMT, Home Health Aide, CMA, MA, PCT, Nursing Assistant.
• Strong sense of accountability, teamwork, dedication to ongoing education and passion to deliver highest quality care and service.

• Experienced…