Patient Care Tech, House/Float Team
Responsibilities:
Under direct supervision of the professional staff the Patient Care Tech, House/Float Team performs certain non-complex duties related to patient care and functioning of the unit. The Patient Care Tech, House/Float Team functions to support the staff assisting with clerical duties along with delivery of patient care to varied age groups while providing a calm, caring and clean environment. The essential functions of the Patient Care Tech, House/Float Team are:
Essential Functions:
- Assists other members of the healthcare team to deliver safe, appropriate, and quality patient care
- Assists with or provides basic nursing care in order to help the nurse meet the activities of daily living for the patient
- Assists with patient mobility needs including turning, positioning, transferring, and ambulation of patients as directed, using appropriate and proper body mechanics and assistive devices
- Maintains safe patient environment
- Responds to emergency situations within the scope of their training and performs under the direction of the nurse
- Performs vital signs, including use of automatic blood pressure machine as directed by nursing staff
- Under the direction of the nurse, provides basic skin care to prevent skin break breakdown and maintain or improve skin integrity
- Answers call bells and responds to patient requests within their scope or communicates patient needs to the nurse
- Transfers and moves patients via wheelchair, bed, or stretcher to appropriate locations within the hospital
- Possesses and demonstrates working knowledge of equipment in order to ensure a safe environment
- Maintains open communication with department staff and accepts direction to ensure a safe environment
- Understands and respects patients' rights to privacy and dignity in order to maintain patient confidentiality
- Ensures that equipment and supplies considered essential are functional, safe, and readily accessible in order to provide a safe environment
- Performs department specific maintenance duties as appropriate to department
- Acts as a patient advocate to ensure safe, appropriate, and quality patient care
- Adheres to standards of practice for infection control and universal precautions
Schedule: Three 12 hour shifts a week 7:00 am-7:30 pm. Self-Scheduling. 4 weekend shifts in a 6 week schedule.
Qualifications:
Education and Experience:
High School Diploma/GED, required
Licenses and Certifications: Nursing Assistant – Certified, Upon hire, preferred
Basic Life Support (BLS), Upon hire, required
Benefits:We offer a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits to part-time and full-time employees including:
- Medical, dental, & vision insurance available 1st of the month after start date
- Wellness and gym discounts & free cardiac rehab gym
- 403B
- On-site discounted childcare center
- Paid time off
- Sick time for full time employees
- Tuition assistance
- Free life insurance for full time employees
- Long term disability for full time employees
- Short term disability
- Employee referral bonus
- Identity theft insurance
- Pet Insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Employee discount program
- Employee Assistance Program
- Free parking