Patient Care Tech: Med/Adult Internal Medicine

Socket.dev; Iowa (LA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation

Sick leave

Health, dental, life and disability 보험

Employer retirement plan contributions

Job summary

University of Iowa Health Care seeks a Patient Care Technician for the Medicine Specialty Unit (6RC). You will support the Nursing team under RN supervision, perform vital signs, phlebotomy, and basic procedures, and assist with admissions, transfers, and discharges in a fast-paced adult internal medicine setting.

Responsibilities include patient hygiene, positioning, transport, and ensuring comfort, with a multidisciplinary approach to holistic care.

Qualifications

• Ability to read, write and follow instructions.

Responsibilities

• Independently obtain and record vital signs including temperature, pulse, respiration, and blood pressure.
• Carries out medical asepsis when performing skills and tasks including phlebotomy, peripheral IV removal, and Foley catheter removal and cares for patients who are medically isolated.
• Performs simple diagnostic and therapeutic procedures such as enemas, preoperative skin prep, dressing changes, collecting specimens, applying binders, braces, etc.
• Assists with patient admission, transfers, and discharges.
• Directly provides for patients' personal hygiene and comfort.
• Turns, positions and ambulates patients.
• Transports patients, equipment, specimens, and supplies.

Skills

Vital signs

Phlebotomy

ECG lead placement

Patient transfers

Asepsis/compliance

Job description

University of Iowa Health Care seeks a Patient Care Technician for the Medicine Specialty Unit (6RC). You will support the Nursing team under RN supervision, perform vital signs, phlebotomy, and basic procedures, and assist with admissions, transfers, and discharges in a fast-paced adult internal medicine setting.

Responsibilities include patient hygiene, positioning, transport, and ensuring comfort, with a multidisciplinary approach to holistic care.