Patient Care Technician - Full Time

Noland Health Services; Anniston (AL); In loco; USD 17.000 - 22.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Noland Health Services in Alabama is hiring for a full-time role that provides activities of daily living support to adult and geriatric patients on both day and night shifts. The position requires compassionate care, reliable teamwork, and adherence to hospital protocols.

Responsibilities include assisting with ADLs, taking vital signs, basic clinical tasks, and contributing to smooth unit operations. The role emphasizes patient safety, documentation, and respectful bedside manner.

Competenze

• High school diploma or GED equivalent required.
• Minimum of one year of patient care experience required.
• Physical ability to lift 50 lbs. and assist with shifts up to 12 hours.

Mansioni

• Provide activities of daily living for adult and geriatric patients.
• Perform indirect patient care tasks and unit functions.
• Assist with elimination needs, ROM, intake/output, vital signs, and 12-lead EKGs.
• Assist with stocking, inventory, discharge prep, and equipment cleaning.
• Support with transport, medication deliveries, and patient comfort.

Conoscenze

Patient care

ADL assistance

Vital signs

Formazione

High school diploma or GED

Descrizione del lavoro

We are currently hiring for:

Full-time (7pm-7am) and (7am-7pm) shifts

Summary of Duties

Provides activities of daily living and other specified patient care procedures for the adult and geriatric patient.

Essential Job Functions

• Provides for patient’s activities of daily living with either total or partial assistance as directed by patient condition:
  • Bath or shower
  • Oral and/or denture care
  • Perineal care
  • Turning and repositioning every two hours or greater as indicated by patient need
  • Ambulation
  • Meal Assistance
• Performs indirect patient care tasks and unit functions: including but not limited to:
  • Answers call lights and relays information promptly to the nurses
  • Runs errands to obtain medications, supplies, etc.
  • Transports specimens
  • Inventories supplies; compiles list of needed supplies
  • Stocks supplies and patient meds when delivered to facility
  • Discharge preparation (packing personal items, transports patient, etc.)
  • Cleans and maintains unit and patient equipment
• Assists patients with elimination needs
• Performs simple range of motion
• Performs intake and output measurements (oral, IV, NG, drains, etc.)
• Performs vital sign measurements
• Obtains 12 lead EKGs
• Assists physicians and nurses with special procedures
• Assists with stocking of supplies and assesses inventory needs for medical and general supplies in coordination with the Administrative Secretary/ Materiels Management Coordinator and/or other management staff, and following hospital purchasing protocols
• Cleans and stores dirty hospital equipment for future patient use
• Performs other duties as assigned

Education

High school diploma or GED equivalent required.

Experience

Minimum of one year of patient care experience required.

Physical Requirements for Essential Job Functions

• Ability to lift 50 lbs. occasionally, 20 lbs. frequently, and 10 lbs. constantly.
• Ability to walk and stand 80% of an 8 to 12 hour shift.
• Ability to push/pull up to 200 lbs. in order to position patients, move beds, carts, etc., and aid patients in ambulation.
• Must possess sight/hearing senses or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately, so that the requirements of this position can be fully met.