Patient Care Technician II (PCT) - PICU Galveston (Nights)

UTMB Health; Galveston (TX); On-site; USD 36,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

UTMB Health in Galveston, TX seeks a patient care technician to provide technical assistance and nursing-supportive care across assigned units. You will collect data, take vitals, draw blood, perform EKGs, and assist with charting and specimen collection under nurse supervision.

You will also help with patient hygiene, mobility, safety, and daily activities, while maintaining privacy and infection control practices in a fast-paced hospital setting.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent with one year hospital experience and program completion.
• Completion of at least one Nurse Assistant, Medical Corpsman, EMT, or Nursing school first semester.
• Documentation of two or more listed competencies (see qualifications).
• BLS certification is required.

Responsibilities

• Collects, reports, and documents vital signs, height/weight, intake/output, oximetry and specimens.
• Obtains blood samples by venipuncture and performs 12-lead EKG.
• Performs and reports POCT and assists with activities of daily care as directed.
• Assists with admissions, transfers, discharges and patient safety.
• Maintains infection control, aseptic technique, and patient privacy.
• Supports the healthcare team and participates in leadership activities each fiscal year.

Skills

Emergency Dispatch

POCT site manager

HUC cross-training

Patient Care Assistant trainer

Unit audits

Cast placement

High-Level Disinfection

Delivery tables setup

Minor procedures setup

Area diagnostics setup

Language assistance

Burn tub duties

PACS access

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

CNA program completion

Medical Corpsman program completion

EMT program completion

School of Nursing first semester completed

BLS certification

Job description

Minimum Qualifications

High school or equivalent, one year of hospital experience AND completion of one of the following technical programs:

• Completion of a recognized Nurse Assistant program OR
• Completion of Medical Corpsman program OR
• Completion of EMT program 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

Has obtained and provided documentation of completion of 2 or more of the following:

• Emergency Dispatch
• POCT test site manager
• Cross-training to HUC duties
• Patient Care Assistant trainer
• Perform Unit Audits- 1 per month per unit/ department manager
• Cast placement
• Perform/ Assist with High-Level Disinfection
• Set up of delivery tables
• Set-up and assistance with minor operating procedures
• Set-up and assistance with area specific diagnostic procedures
• Language assistance
• Burn tub room duties which includes splint applications: mouth spreaders, upper and lower extremities, positioning patients prone, application of pressure wrapping: coban ace wraps, surginet pressure garments, tubigrip/jobst garments, burn dressing preparation and application and assists in application of biobrane/transcyte
• INQN, IDERAD, PACS system resource/user

Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications:

Required:

• BLS

Job Summary

To provide technical assistance and supportive patient care to meet the needs of individual patients throughout assigned areas and serve as a leader/ mentor for the assigned unit(s).

Job Duties:

• Collects, reports, and documents data. Takes 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, superficial wound care, assists with elimination, and cares for the incontinent patient and 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 the admission, transfer, and discharge of the patient.
• Assists the healthcare team by preparing patients and chaperoning during examinations/procedures or assists with other patient treatments.
• Provides for patient safety related to age and condition.
• Assists with patient restraints and maintains 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 health 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.
• Maintains patient care areas with appropriate supplies.
• Assists with patient requests for other hospital services.
• Participates in one leadership activity per fiscal year.

Marginal or Periodic Functions

• Video monitoring duties as assigned.
• Adheres to internal controls and reporting structure.
• Performs related duties as required.

Salary Range

Actual salary commensurate with experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.