HCSS Patient Care Tech II

The University of Texas Medical Branch; Galveston (TX); On-site; USD 30,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

The University of Texas Medical Branch seeks a per diem healthcare provider to deliver technical assistance and supportive patient care. Responsibilities include monitoring vital signs, assisting with personal hygiene, and ensuring patient safety.

Candidates should have one year of direct patient care experience and complete a recognized Nurse Assistant program or similar certification. BLS certification is required. Work is performed in a standard hospital environment with necessary patient care equipment.

Qualifications

• One year of experience in a direct patient care environment.
• Current BLS certification issued thru American Heart Association.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical assistance and supportive patient care.
• Collects, reports and documents patients' data.
• Performs patient hygiene and assists with activities.
• Maintains a clean and safe patient care environment.

Skills

Verbal and written communication

Customer service orientation

Team player

Education

Completion of a recognized Nurse Assistant (CNA) program

Completion of Medical Corpsman program

Completion of EMT program with current EMT license

Job description

JOB SUMMARY

Per diem position. To provide technical assistance and supportive patient care to meet the needs of individual patients throughout assigned areas.

MAJOR DUTIES / CRITICAL TASKS

• Collects, reports, and documents data. Takes vital signs, height and weight, intake and output, pulse oximetry, and collects specimens.
• Obtains blood samples by venipuncture.
• Acquires 12 lead EKG.
• Performs and reports POCT.
• Assists with patient activities and care as assigned by the charge nurse/designee as indicated by the patient’s plan of care.
• Provides for patients’ personal hygiene. Bathes patients, performs oral suctioning, superficial wound care, assists with elimination, and cares for the incontinent patient and the patient with a urinary catheter. Assists or gives cleansing enemas, sitz baths, non-sterile douches, and provides ostomy care.
• Assists with feeding.
• Ambulates, positions, and turns patients and cares for the patient with altered mobility.
• Assists with the admission, transfer, and discharge of the patient.
• Assists the healthcare team by preparing patients and chaperoning during examinations/procedures or assists with other patient treatments.
• Provides for patient safety related to age and condition.
• Assists with patient restraints and maintains patient-specific safety precautions.
• Collects, reports, and documents data related to patient needs/emergencies and unusual patient and family behavior.
• Cares for the patient from a correctional environment
• Maintains patient privacy and confidentiality of information and health records at all times.
• Provides and maintains a clean, safe environment and performs and/or assists others to perform proper aseptic technique, isolation procedures, and infection control measures.
• Maintains patient care areas with appropriate supplies.
• Assists with patient requests for other hospital services.

MARGINAL OR PERIODIC FUNCTIONS

• Video monitoring duties as assigned.
• Adheres to internal controls and reporting structure.
• Performs related duties as required.

KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS / ABILITIES

• Ability to effectively communicate verbally and/or in written form.
• Customer service orientation and values.
• Ability to negotiate solutions and outcomes.
• Team player.
• Ability to maximize people and financial resources.
• Ability to work in partnership with management and staff.

REQUIRED EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE

• One (1) year of experience in a direct patient care environment within the last two years AND completion of one (1) of the following technical programs:
• Completion of a recognized Nurse Assistant (CNA) program with current/active certification through the Texas Department of Health and Human Services OR
• Completion of Medical Corpsman program OR
• Completion of EMT program with a current EMT license
• Must have current BLS certification issued thru American Heart Association.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT / EQUIPMENT

Standard Hospital Environment. Uses standard patient care supplies, equipment and mechanical devices.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS / WORKING CONDITIONS

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, hand/ finger dexterity, and type on a computer keyboard. Specific vision abilities required by this job include regularly working on a Visual Display Terminal (VDT), close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Includes intermittent physical activity such as bending, reaching, and lifting
• The employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• May require heavy lifting, pushing, or pulling more than fifty pounds.
• Official Regulatory Statement for Healthcare Job Descriptions: May be exposed to such occupational hazards as communicable diseases, blood borne pathogens, ionizing & non-ionizing radiation, hazardous medications and disoriented or combative patients or others.

Any qualifications to be considered as equivalents in lieu of stated minimums require the prior approval of the Vice President for Human Resources. Specific job requirements or physical location of some positions allocated to this classification, may render this position security sensitive, and thereby subject to the provisions of Section 51.215, Texas Education Code.