Patient Care Technician-Riverview-Telemetry

Patient Care Technician – Riverview, Telemetry – Full Time – Days

Riverview Medical Center – Borough of Red Bank, 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.

• Providing patient care, based on physical, psychosocial, education, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the age of the guests/patients served in assigned service.
• Providing 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.
• Taking 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.
• Participating in interdisciplinary collaboration of our patients' plan of care from admission to discharge to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.
• Participating in Unit/Department Performance Improvement activities.

• High School diploma, general equivalency diploma (GED), and/or GED equivalent programs.
• 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 that have not completed one of the programs but meet the other requirements will be considered for selection into the HMH PCT Apprentice Program. If selected, the candidate will be hired into the role of PCT Apprentice. Upon successful completion of the HMH PCT Apprenticeship Program, the candidate will be transferred to the Patient Care Technician role.
• The ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing patient needs, a strong sense of accountability for improving the lives of our patients and their caregivers, an exceptional focus on teamwork, dedication to ongoing education and the ability and passion to deliver the highest quality of care and service based on a strong sense of patient focus are all required.

• Experienced or certified in phlebotomy and checking EKG, vital signs and blood sugar preferred.
• At least one (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 successfully completed a PCT program which includes Phlebotomy, EKG and nursing assistant course both in the theoretical and clinical setting.

• AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification within 60 days of entering position.

Starting at $20.32 hourly. The posted rate of pay is an estimate of the minimum base pay at the time of posting in accordance with the New Jersey Pay Transparency Act. The total rewards package includes competitive benefits such as health, dental, vision, paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and retirement benefits.

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