PATIENT CARE TECH
Job Details
Full Job Description
Department: Gen Med/SAC (4-W)
FTE: 0.90
Full
Time
Shift: Days
Position Summary:
Provide direct,
non-invasive, and routine patient care and related support services
within an in-patient or out-patient environment. Interview patients
and take vital signs. Perform activities of daily living (ADLs).
Maintain supplies and equipment. Delivers dirty instrument trays.
Transport patients. Assist orientation of new staff members. Position
patients unable to do self- care. Assist patients with prescribed
exercise regimen; perform routine tube care; change catheter bags;
collect non sterile specimens; perform oral suctioning; perform I&O
including documentation of bowel & bladder function. Observe patients.
Operate Hoyer lift; perform daily heights and weights. Ensure
adherence to Hospitals and departmental policies and procedures.
Patient care assignment may include Neonate, Pediatric, Adolescent,
Adult and Geriatric age groups.
Detailed
responsibilities:
* PATIENT OBSERVATION - Observe patient to ensure
their safety and well being; report observations to Charge Nurse or
appropriate designee
* PATIENT CARE - Provide basic patient care;
take and record vital signs to include temperature, pulse,
respiration, weight, height, blood pressure and intake-output
measurements
* PATIENT CARE - Assist with activities of daily
living (ADL): meals, ambulation, hygiene, linen change and toileting
as instructed
* PATIENT CARE - Maintain therapeutic plan of care
and minute to minute care of patient who is at extreme risk to self or
others
* PATIENT CARE - Complete documentation as required on the
Electronic Medical Record
* PATIENT CARE - Complete specific skills
listed in the "University of New Mexico, Unlicensed Assistive
Personnel Specific Functions" Matrix
* DEVELOPMENT - Enhance
professional growth and development through participation in
educational programs, reading current literature, attending
in-services, meetings and workshops
* PATIENT SAFETY 1 - Follow
patient safety-related policies, procedures and protocols
* PATIENT
SAFETY 2 - Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by seeking
opportunities to improve patient safety through questioning of current
policies and processes
* PATIENT SAFETY 3 - Identify and
report/correct environmental conditions and/or situations that may put
a patient at undue risk
* PATIENT SAFETY 4 - Report potential or
actual patient safety concerns, medical errors and/or near misses in a
timely manner
* PATIENT SAFETY 5 - Encourage patients to actively
participate in their own care by asking questions and reporting
treatment or situations that they don't understand or may "not seem
right"
Education:
Essential:
* High
School or GED Equivalent
* Certificate
Education
specialization:
Essential:
* CNA or Cert EMTB (ICU) or 1
semester accredit nurs pgm
Experience:
Essential:
Nonessential:
Bilingual
English, Spanish, Keres, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, Zuni, or Navajo6 months
patient care experience
Credentials:
Essential:
* CPR
for Healthcare/BLS Prov or Prof Rescuers w/in 30 days
Physical Conditions:
Heavy Work: Exerting 50 to 100 pounds
of force occasionally, and/or 25 to 50 pounds of force frequently,
and/or 10 to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects or people.
Physical Demand requirements are in excess of those for Medium
Work.
Working conditions:
Essential:
* Sig Hazard:
Chemicals, Bio Hazardous Materials req PPE
* Limited access to med
room. Med Admin Policy, Att A
Department: Clinical Nursing Support