UPMC Hamot is hiring a Patient Care Technician to join our 8 South Neurology unit! If you're passionate about patient care and looking for a career that offers great benefits and plenty of room for growth, we invite you to explore this opportunity today!
This position is full-time, rotating days and overnights. Title and salary will be determined based upon education and experience.
Responsibilities: • Assist with patient procedures and ADLs, support physical, respiratory, and cardiopulmonary therapies, provide feedback to RN and report changes in patient status. • Perform core nursing assistant tasks: blood glucose monitoring, weights, vital signs, I&O, specimen collections, Foley care, plus at least four additional tasks (phlebotomy, 12-lead EKG, simple dressing, Foley catheter removal, point of care testing, bladder scan, straight catheter, IV catheter removal). • Report equipment malfunctions, communicate effectively with other departments, maintain professional and respectful relationships. • Respond to call lights and telephones, pass meal trays, transport patients. • Receive and act on feedback, identify and communicate learning needs, participate in self-review. • Provide instruction to patients and families under RN direction, apply, monitor, and remove patient restraints as per protocol. • Communicate clearly with healthcare team, understand cultural diversity, horizontal violence, and impairment in health professions, support workplace safety. • Follow all patient care and hospital policies, comply with safety policies and standard precautions. • Suggest and support departmental changes, assume responsibility for assignments, support department projects and quality initiatives. • Document in medical records as per procedures, perform clerical functions as needed. • Achieve and maintain competency in advanced skills based on department need (phlebotomy/venipuncture, peripheral IV removal, indwelling Foley catheter removal, basic arrhythmia, 12-lead EKG, NG tubes clamping and removal.
Requirements: • High school diploma or equivalent • Must have one of the following: • 1 year of general healthcare experience • 6 months as UPMC Nursing Assistant/CNA with PCT competency within 120 days of hire/transfer/promotion • Enrollment in PT/OT/PA program or related healthcare training with at least one clinical rotation completed • Bachelor's degree in a health sciences field • Successful completion of UPMC patient care technician class • Successful completion of basic information system training • Microcomputer experience preferred • EMT or Paramedic certification or enrollment in an EMT or Paramedic program preferred
Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances: • Basic Life Support (BLS OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire. • ACLS preferred
UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran