Patient Care Technician Behavioral Health FT Night - Ball Memorial

IU Health; Muncie (IN); Presencial; USD 19.000 - 28.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Outstanding benefit package for part-?

Competitive pay

Development opportunities & tuition Re

Descripción de la vacante

Indiana University Health, Inc. is seeking a Full-Time Night Patient Care Technician (PCA) to provide compassionate bedside care and assist with routine needs such as hydration, meals, mobility, baths, and linen changes.

The role supports the bedside RN by monitoring vital signs, reporting changes, and ensuring patient safety with appropriate equipment and practices. The PCA works in a fast-paced hospital setting, focusing on patient comfort, safety, and timely communication with the care team.

Formación

• Obtain and monitor patient vital signs and report abnormalities to the RN.
• Demonstrate compassionate bedside care and effective communication with patients.
• Maintain patient safety through attentive care and adherence to infection control.

Responsabilidades

• Obtain vital signs and report abnormalities or changes to the RN.
• Assist with daily patient needs: drinks, meals, walking, baths, linens.
• Keep patients safe using gait belts, bed/chair alarms, and proximity.
• Support bedside RN with clinical tasks and respond to changes promptly.

Conocimientos

Vital signs

Interpersonal

Communication

Patient safety

Bedside care

Descripción del empleo

This is a Full-Time Night position

As a bedside caregiver, IU Health is seeking a Patient Care Technician (also known as a Patient Care Assistant or PCA ) who will provide a phenomenal patient experience by anticipating the needs of patients such as providing drinks, assisting with meal ordering, encouraging walking, assisting with baths, and providing clean linens and gowns.

Our PCA's have compassion for our patients, a caring bedside manner, and an ability to work in a fast paced environment. They will provide clinical assistance to the bedside RN by obtaining vital signs and reporting abnormalities or changes in a patient's behavior to the primary RN or charge nurse in order to detect and provide rapid treatment. A PCA always keeps patients safe by utilizing safety measures such as gait belts, bed and chair alarms, and staying within arm's reach of patients when moving around. If you are seeking a role where you can provide meaningful care to IU Health patients, we want to hear from you.

As part of an award winning hospital system, our roles include:

• Outstanding benefit package for part time and full time positions
• Competitive pay
• Development opportunities & tuition reimbursement

• Requires current Basic Life Support certification through the AHA or attainment at the completion of the IU Health PCA education program. Other advanced life support certifications may be required per unit/department specialty according to patient care policies.
• Requires knowledge of care appropriate to the age and developmental level of the patients served.
• Requires up to date knowledge of procedures and standards related to patient care activities.
• Requires proficiency in interpersonal and communication skills.
• Requires constant mental awareness and the ability to withstand a high level of tension and stress.
• Requires ability to maintain concentration when subjected to frequent and varied interruptions and variable noise levels.
• Requires ability to exercise judgment and initiative in the resolution of problems encountered.
• Requires ability to set priorities and manage a high workload within a limited time for completion.
• Requires knowledge of procedures; equipment; software and standards related to patient care activities that non-licensed role performs (for example PCA/PCR/PCI).
• Requires knowledge of principles of infection control.
• Requires ability to perform physically demanding; repetitious movements.
• Requires ability to read and perform basic math.
• Requires ability to organize tasks and attend to details.
• Requires knowledge of principles of good personal hygiene and aseptic techniques to prevent infection of patients; self; and others.