Patient Care Technician: ICU Support & Patient Comfort

Island Health; Anacortes (WA); On-site; USD 29,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Paid Time Off

Life Insurance

Long-Term Disability Coverage

Retirement Contributions

Tuition Reimbursement

Student Loan Repayment

Employee Recognition Events

Job summary

Island Health in Anacortes, WA is seeking a compassionate CNA to join the Acute Care/ICU support team. You will assist with bathing, dressing, feeding, mobility, and patient comfort, ensuring safety and dignity at all times.

0.9 FTE day shift provides stable hours; compensation ranges from $21.12 to $31.37 per hour with night, evening, and weekend differentials. A current WA Nursing Assistant certification and BLS are required or preferred, with prior CNA experience valued.

Qualifications

• Current Washington State Nursing Assistant Certification.
• Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support Certification.
• 3 to 6 months previous CNA experience preferred.
• High School Diploma or G.E.D. preferred.

Responsibilities

• Answers signal lights and bells to determine patients’ needs.
• Bathes, dresses, and undresses patients.
• Serves and collects food trays and feeds patients requiring help.
• Transports patients to treatment units, using wheelchair, stretcher, bed, or may assist them to walk.
• Assist with ambulation.
• Drapes patients for examinations and treatments, and remains with patients, performing such duties as holding instruments and adjusting lights.
• Assist patients to bathroom, bedside commode, or with use of bedpan for toileting
• Tidy and clean patients’ rooms.
• Washes and dresses bodies of deceased persons.
• Changes bed linens, runs errands, directs visitors, and answers telephones.
• Takes and records blood pressure, temperature, pulse and respiration rates, glucose levels, and food and liquid intake and output as directed. Reports unusual findings to nurse.
• Assists with turning and repositioning patients as needed.
• Reports to RN any abnormal vital signs, skin breakdown, decline in mentation or other observed changes,
• Enters data into computer system.
• Places telemetry electrodes accurately when ordered.
• Collects urine and stool specimens for lab, runs guiac testing

Education

Washington State Nursing Assistant Certification

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Island Health in Anacortes, WA is seeking a compassionate CNA to join the Acute Care/ICU support team. You will assist with bathing, dressing, feeding, mobility, and patient comfort, ensuring safety and dignity at all times.

0.9 FTE day shift provides stable hours; compensation ranges from $21.12 to $31.37 per hour with night, evening, and weekend differentials. A current WA Nursing Assistant certification and BLS are required or preferred, with prior CNA experience valued.