Patient Care Technician - PAC

NYC Health + Hospitals; New York (NY); On-site; USD 19,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

NYC Health + Hospitals is seeking a Nurse Aide to support patient care in a skilled nursing and rehabilitation setting.

You will assist with activities of daily living, monitor vitals, and help the care team ensure a clean, safe, and compassionate environment for residents.

Qualifications

• Graduation from elementary school is required.
• Successful completion of a basic Nurse Aide training program.

Responsibilities

• Assist with recreational and rehabilitation activities for patients.
• Provide physical care and personal hygiene tasks to patients.
• Prepare patients for examinations and assist the examiner.
• Escort and transport patients within the facility as needed.
• Maintain patient charts and report observations to the nursing staff.

Skills

Patient care

Vital signs

Mobility assistance

Communication

Teamwork

Education

Nurse Aide training

Tools

Vital signs equipment

Job description

Marketing StatementNYC Health + Hospitals/McKinney is a 320-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility with a 5-Star CMS Quality Rating located in central Brooklyn. McKinney provides exceptional short-term rehabilitation and long-term skilled nursing services in a warm and comfortable setting. McKinney residents have 24-hour access to expert care and specialty services including Parkinson’s and Dementia Care, Hospice and Palliative care, IV therapy, wound and tracheostomy care.

Marketing StatementNYC Health + Hospitals/McKinney is a 320-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility with a 5-Star CMS Quality Rating located in central Brooklyn. McKinney provides exceptional short-term rehabilitation and long-term skilled nursing services in a warm and comfortable setting. McKinney residents have 24-hour access to expert care and specialty services including Parkinson’s and Dementia Care, Hospice and Palliative care, IV therapy, wound and tracheostomy care.
From more than 600 Nursing Homes, McKinney ranks Top 30 in Newsweek’s Best Nursing Homes in New York 2024; and also received high-performance ratings for Long-term Care and Short-term Rehabilitation from U.S. News & World Report’s Best Nursing Homes in America 2024.
At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Duties & Responsibilities

Purpose of Position

Under direct supervision of a Licensed Nurse or other licensed professional staff, performs activities and procedures of a non-professional nature in direct/indirect care of patients and residents, or participates as a member of a treatment, nursing, medical or health care team in implementing appropriate regimens.

Examples Of Typical Tasks

• Assists in recreational and rehabilitation activities designed to meet the assessed needs, interests and capabilities of patients. Supervises patients/residents during field trips.
• Assists with the physical care and personal hygiene of selected patients, consisting of, but not limited to, changing simple dressings, giving enemas and taking vital signs. Prepares patient for meals and feeds them if necessary.
• Prepares patient for examination by performing assigned procedures such as temperature, pulse, respiration, height, weight and measurements, and assists in the examination process.
• Prepares patient and/or examining room for examination, treatment and/or procedures. Sets up and arranges examining room.
• Maintains, assembles and dismantles devices and equipment used in patient care. Prepares and tests equipment for safe operation and transports various equipment and supplies.

• Changes linen and makes beds. Keeps ward and/or unit, linen, utility, treatment, storage rooms and recreational areas in a neat and orderly fashion.
• Assists in care and storage of patients' clothing and property and sterilizes clothing and other personal items when required.

• Reports observations of patients' and families' condition, mental state and social behavior to medical and professional staff caring for patients, and participates in the assessment and/or care of patients and families.
• Maintains, controls, completes, processes and files patients' charts, records, transportation and time records, appropriate forms and documents.
• Assists in clinic, admission procedures and in regulation of visitors.
• Escorts ambulatory patients and transports non-ambulatory patients by wheelchair, stretcher, bed or stretcher-bed, including those with intravenous apparatuses to all departments, clinics, diagnostic and therapeutic units, religious and recreation centers, and other areas within the facility and facility's affiliation hospital. Accompanies children to facility school and explains nature of trips to patients.
• Transports bodies and/or assists mortuary caretaker in transporting bodies to the mortuary and places in refrigerator when necessary. Searches DOA's and completes the required DOA reports. Transports fetuses, amputated parts or other specimens to morgue and provides postmortem care.
• Collects and delivers specimens, charts, x-rays, regular and emergency requisitions for diagnostic tests and treatments. Performs other messenger duties, as required.
• Provides for comfort needs of patients and assists patient with all aspects and activities of daily living.
• Maintains clinical competence by attending continuing education programs.

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduation from elementary school.
• Successful completion of a basic skill training program for Nurse's Aides, or its equivalent.