Patient Care Technician, 8 East Job at UPMC Hamot, Erie, PA

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  • UPMC Hamot
  • Erie, PA

Job Description

UPMC Hamot is hiring a Patient Care Technician to join our 8 East General Surgery 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).

Job Tags

Full time, Night shift,

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