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Patient Care Technician, ICU, Nights, 2k Sign On Bonus

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Bel Air (MD)

On-site

Full time

26 days ago

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Job summary

Join a community-focused health system as a Patient Care Technician, where you will provide essential care to patients in a dynamic ICU environment. This role involves vital tasks such as monitoring patient vitals, assisting with daily living activities, and collaborating with healthcare professionals to ensure optimal patient outcomes. With a commitment to safety and quality care, you will play a vital role in enhancing the patient experience. Enjoy the benefits of a full-time position with night shifts and the potential for a sign-on bonus, all while making a meaningful impact in the lives of patients and their families. Your dedication to patient care will help shape a healthier community.

Benefits

Sign-On Bonus
Health Insurance
Paid Time Off
Retirement Plan

Qualifications

  • High school diploma required; CNA or GNA certification needed.
  • BLS certification is mandatory; no prior experience needed.

Responsibilities

  • Provides direct patient care and monitors vital signs.
  • Assists with daily living activities and specimen collection.
  • Collaborates with the healthcare team to ensure patient safety.

Skills

Patient Care
Vital Signs Monitoring
Blood Draws
Wound Care
Basic Life Support (BLS)

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent
Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Certification
Geriatric Nursing Assistant (GNA) Certification

Job description

Patient Care Technician, ICU, Nights, 2k Sign On Bonus
  • Full-time
  • Shift: Night
  • Location: UMUC Medical Center Inc
  • Position Type: Non-Exempt

University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health (UM UCH) offers the residents of northeastern Maryland an unparalleled combination of clinical expertise, leading-edge technology, and an exceptional patient experience.
A community-based, integrated, non-profit health system, our vision is to become the preferred, integrated health system creating the healthiest community in Maryland. We are dedicated to maintaining and improving the health of the people in our community through an integrated health delivery system that provides high quality care to all.

Patient Care Technician (PCT), Full time, Nights, Up to $2,000 Sign On Bonus!

Under the direction of professional nursing staff, provides direct patient care. Takes vital signs, checks surgical dressings, aids patient’s with activities of daily living. This role performs blood draws and collects specimen samples. Observes and collects data and communicates about the patient’s status in order to identify needs and provides needed care. Serves as a member of the interdisciplinary patient care services team.

Principal Responsibilities and Tasks

  1. Performs testing and manages the care of the patient based on results achieved and clinical findings.
  2. Records patient care along the continuum, including activities of daily living (ADLs): feeding, bathing, dressing, toileting and transferring.
  3. Completes, documents and reports patient vital signs (temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiration, oxygen saturation and reported pain level).
  4. Assists in admission, transfer and discharge of patients.
  5. Participates in cost effective strategies to optimize patient outcomes.
  6. Promotes patient safety including fall prevention. Ensures the safety of the clinical environment for patients, visitors, and other staff members.
  7. Maintains order and appearance of patient rooms and work area. Maintains patient care supplies and linen.
  8. Collaborates with members of the health care team to carry out the plan of care, including reporting observed changes in patients’ condition.
  9. Ensure patient comfort relative to their pain status.
  10. Measures and documents dietary intake and patient urinary and stool output. Documents calorie count. Measures and documents patient weight.
  11. Conducts indwelling urinary catheter care. Applies, maintains and removes external urinary catheter devices.
  12. Conducts blood glucose monitoring.
  13. Provides wound care to promote healing and maintain structural integrity of the skin. Performs skin care and hygiene and reports impaired skin integrity and/or wound impairment. Assists with appropriate strategies and/or treatment measures to provide wound care.
  14. Assists with collection of patient specimens for laboratory testing. Incorporates proper techniques for patient identification, method for collection of appropriate specimen(s) and documentation.
  15. Provides orthopedic/rehab device care: e.g. braces, splints, CPM. Dons/doffs compression wraps/stockings.
  16. Participates in hourly patient rounding in collaboration with the health care team.
  17. Responds to patient triggered alarms, including call light, chair alarm, bed alarm, tele-sitter alarm, etc.
  18. Complies with the The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals within scope of practice.
  19. Detects, reports, and acts to avoid or correct safety risks. Reports adverse events and near misses to appropriate management authority.
  20. Provides professional vigilance to assigned patients, including when assigned as a patient safety companion.
  21. Incorporates safe lifting techniques and body mechanics in daily practice.
  22. Improves patient flow and prevents care delays.
  23. Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Requirements

  1. High school diploma or equivalent required.
  2. Current Maryland state certification as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) or Geriatric Nursing Assistant (GNA) required.
  3. No previous experience required; previous direct patient care experience in a health care facility preferred.
  4. Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation

  • Pay Range:$17.17-$24.04, with pay differentials
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