Tech Patient Care I
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Full Job Description
Sign-on Bonus and Relocation Reimbursement available!
Receive 17% weekday nights, 26% weekend nights, or 15%
weekend day shift differentials!
Department: InPatient
4th Floor - SRMC
FTE: 0.90
Full Time
Shift: Nights
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:
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PATIENT SAFETY 1 - Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures
and protocols
* DEVELOPMENT - Enhance professional growth and
development through participation in educational programs, reading
current literature, attending in-services, meetings and workshops
*
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"
* 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
OBSERVATION - Observe patient to ensure their safety and well being;
report observations to Charge Nurse or appropriate designee
*
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 specific skills listed in the "University of New
Mexico, Unlicensed Assistive Personnel Specific Functions" Matrix
*
PATIENT CARE - Complete documentation as required on the Electronic
Medical Record
Education:
Essential:
*
High School or GED Equivalent
* Training
Education
specialization:
Essential:
* MA or PCT or CNA or DD214 or EMT-B
or 2 sem nurs schl
Experience:
Essential:
Nonessential:
Bilingual
English, Spanish, Keres, Tewa, Tiwa, Towa, Zuni, or Navajo1 year
directly related experience preferred
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