Patient Care Technician - Med​/Surg - Somc - Per Diem

Patient Care Technician - Med/Surg - SOMC - Per Diem Days

SOUTHERN OCEAN MEDICAL CENTER Manahawkin, New Jersey

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. It’s about competitive benefits and how we support one another and 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.
• Provide for effective and safe patient outcomes through practice, judgment, and critical actions.
• Ongoing communication with patients, nursing colleagues, and other members of the health care team regarding patient status and rendered care.
• Take self-directed initiative to do more than is expected, improving job performance and creating opportunities.
• Participate in interdisciplinary collaboration of the patient’s plan of care from admission to discharge to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care.

• 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 knowledge and skill 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; labels and processes specimens to expedite throughput.
• Performs venipuncture for laboratory tests and transports specimens as directed.
• Maintains and inventories equipment; ensures code cart, O2, and other emergency equipment are functional.
• Applies bandages, slings, compression boots, and hypothermia blankets as directed by RN.
• Assists in patient transport and with meals as needed.
• Checks inventory of the assigned area and restocks as directed.
• Prepares room for admission and provides direct hygiene and comfort care to patients (bathing, toileting, oral hygiene, incontinent care, bed making).
• Assists patients with dressing and placement of belongings; monitors return of clothing to family.
• Performs and documents glucose finger sticks and collects other specimens as directed.
• Provides post mortem care as required.
• Obtains and documents patient weights; monitors intake and output.
• Maintains a safe patient environment by responding to call lights and communicating changes in patient condition to RN promptly.
• Identifies needs of the patient population served and modifies care accordingly (age, culture, language, hearing/vision impairment, etc.). Communicates with patient, parent, or primary caregiver at an appropriate level.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.

Education,

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• High School diploma or GED or equivalent.
• Completion of one of the following programs or equivalents:
  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 (EMT, Home Health Aide, CMA, MA, PCT, Nursing Assistant). Candidates not yet completing a program may be considered for the HMH PCT Apprentice Program.
• Ability to learn quickly, adapt to changing patient needs, strong accountability, teamwork, ongoing education, and commitment to high-quality patient care.

Education, Knowledge,

Skills And Abilities

Preferred

• Experience or certification in phlebotomy and checking EKG, vital signs, and blood glucose preferred.
• At least 1 year of PCT or CNA experience in a hospital setting or eligibility for the HMH PCT…