• Patient Care Technician II - Labor & Delivery, Evenings

    UTMB HealthGalveston, TX 77551

    Job #2636703929

  • Patient Care Technician II - Labor & Delivery, Evenings

    Galveston, Texas, United States

    Nursing & Care Management

    UTMB Health

    Requisition # 2305891

    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 educationwhich contains clinical concepts and health assessment or the equivalent

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

    o Emergency Dispatch

    o POCT test site manager

    o Cross-training to HUC duties

    o Patient Care Assistant trainer

    o Perform Unit Audits- 1 per month per unit/ department manager

    o Cast placement

    o Perform/ Assist with High-Level Disinfection

    o Set up of delivery tables

    o Set-up and assistance with minor operating procedures

    o Set-up and assistance with area specific diagnostic procedures

    o Language assistance

    o 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

    o INQN, IDERAD, PACS system resource/user

    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

    Salary Range:

    Actual salary commensurate with experience.

    Work Schedule:

    Evening Shift, 3pm-11pm, 36 hours/weekly

    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 VEVRAA Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

    Compensation