Patient Care Technician I (PCT) - SICU (Nights)

Utmb; Galveston (TX); On-site; USD 34,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

UTMB Health is hiring for a patient care support role. The incumbent will provide basic technical assistance and supportive patient care across assigned areas, including vital signs, specimen collection, venipuncture, and EKGs.

Responsibilities include assisting with daily activities, hygiene, feeding, mobility, safety, isolation procedures, and maintaining patient privacy. Requires BLS and a path through approved training programs or relevant experience.

Qualifications

• Completion of Nurse Assistant program, Medical Assistant program, Medical Corpsman program, EMT program, UTMB Hospital Aide Training Program.
• Two years of direct patient care experience in a clinical setting.
• Certified MA, PCT, or CNA at time of hire, or enrolled in nursing school with first semester clinicals.

Responsibilities

• Collect vital signs, height/weight, intake/output, pulse oximetry, and specimen collection.
• Obtain blood samples by venipuncture.
• Acquire 12-lead EKG.
• Perform and report POCT results.
• Assist with patient activities and care per plan of care.
• Assist with personal hygiene and activities (bathing, oral care, wound care, ostomy care).
• Assist with feeding and mobility (ambulation, positioning, turning).
• Support patient safety, restraints, and age/condition considerations.
• Document patient needs, emergencies, and behavior.
• Care for patients in correctional environments with privacy and confidentiality.
• Maintain clean, safe infection-control practices and aseptic technique.
• Manage supplies and assist with requests for other hospital services.

Skills

Direct patient care

Vital signs monitoring

Venipuncture

EKG 12-lead

POCT testing

Patient hygiene assistance

Mobility assistance

Isolation procedures

Infection control

Privacy protection

Education

Nurse Assistant program

Medical Assistant program

Medical Corpsman program

EMT program

UTMB Hospital Aide Training Program

Two years direct patient care experience

Certified MA/CNA/PCT at hire

Nursing school first semester with clinicals

Tools

Venipuncture equipment

EKG machine

POCT devices

Job description

Completion of one of the following technical programs:

• Completion of a recognized Nurse Assistant program OR
• Completion of a Medical Assistant program OR
• Completion of Medical Corpsman program OR
• Completion of EMT program OR
• Completion of a UTMB Hospital Aide Training Program OR
• Two (2) years of experience in a direct patient care environment OR
• Certified MA, PCT, or CNA at time of hire OR
• Is enrolled in a recognized School of Nursing and has completed the first semester of education which contains clinical concepts and health assessment or the equivalent.

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS OR CERTIFICATIONS:

Required:

• Basic Life Support (BLS).

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Collects, reports, and documents data: 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 and superficial wound care, assists with chronic wound care, provides skincare for a patient with TED hose, SCD, casts, skeletal pins, assists with elimination, cares for the incontinent patient, cares for 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 patient safety related to age and condition.
• Assists with patient restraints and 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 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.
• Documents as appropriate.
• 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.

SALARY RANGE:

Salary commensurate with experience.

UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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