DEPARTMENT: OBSERVATION UNIT

FACILITY: Tift Regional Medical Center

WORK TYPE: Full Time

SHIFT: Night Shift

HOURS: 7pm - 7am

SUMMARY:

Patient Care Techs (PCTs) assist in providing patient care under the direction of a Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse for assigned patients. They are responsible for providing excellent customer service to patients, patient's families, visitors, physicians, and co-workers. They complete other duties as assigned on their particular nursing unit.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Perform blood sugar testing and report results to nurse.
* Maintains cleanliness in the unit area.
* Makes proper charges for supplies, equipment, and services.
* Conducts hourly rounding to meet patient/patient's family's needs.
* Updates patient communication board during hourly rounding, bedside shift report, and as needed.
* Documents and communicates patient needs to nursing staff.
* Maintains the safety of patients who have been identified at risk for preventable injury by the implementation of nursing safety interventions or the use of protective devices/equipment under the supervision of the registered nurse. Ex. side rails, alarms, bed in low position and locked.
* Perform vital signs and documents in EMR.
* Recognizes abnormal vital signs and reports to nurse.
* Assist patients with ADL'S as needed and document (grooming, bathing, eating, and walking).
* Changes patient's bed linens.
* Record I&O in EMR.
* Scans Intellishelf appropriate to capture supplies.
* Ensure patients are comfortable in bed and adjusts bed settings and or reposition/turns every 2 hours if needed.
* Transport patients via wheelchair, bed, or stretcher as needed.
* Demonstrates the ability to handle confidential information with discretion for the patient, family, and/or co-worker.
* Protects patient's rights by knocking before entering the room and by properly draping patients prior to a procedure.
* Makes needed copies of chart when patient is transferred or discharged.
* Immediately reports any patient complaint/grievance to nurse, nurse leader, or manager.
* Conducts cardiac monitoring as needed (specific to Centralized Telemetry Bank).
* Keeps abreast of all pertinent federal, state and facility regulations, laws and policies as they presently exist and as they change or are modified.
* Understands and adheres to compliance standards as they appear in the Corporate Compliance Policy, Code of Conduct, and Conflicts of Interest Policy.
* Demonstrates age-specific skills as required by position.
* Offers suggestions on ways to improve operations of department and reduce costs.
* Attends all mandatory education programs.
* Improves self-knowledge through voluntarily attending continuing education/certification classes.
* Maintains required competency levels as identified in written exams, skills checklists, skills labs, annual safety and health requirements as well as service excellence education hours requirements.
* Willing to cross-train in order to better assist co-workers and to provide maximum efficiency in department.
* Volunteers/participates on hospital committees, functions, and department projects.
* Manages resources effectively.
* Reports equipment in need of repair in order to extend life of equipment.
* Makes good use of time so as to not create needless overtime.

EDUCATION:

* High School Diploma or GED

OTHER INFORMATION:

* Current Certified Nurse Aide certification accepted in lieu of education requirement.
* Successful completion of a Certified Nursing Assistant, PCT, or Medical Assistant program preferred.
* One year of hospital or nursing home experienced preferred.

COMPETENCIES & SKILLS:

* Takes personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work, and achieves results with little oversight.
* Adapts to changing business needs, conditions, and work responsibilities and works with a variety of situations, individuals, groups, and varying customer needs.
* Diligently attends to details and pursues quality in accomplishing tasks.
* Beside monitoring
* Basic Life Support certification
* Clinical Assessment
* Diplomatically handles challenging or tense interpersonal situations.
* Works together with others to achieve a common goal.
* Provides excellent service to internal and external customers.
* Is reliable and trustworthy while performing work in a consistent and timely manner.
* Electronic medical record documentation
* Electronic medical record software
* Earns others' trust and respect through consistent honesty and transparency in all interactions.
* Openness to different and new ways of doing things and willingness to modify one's preferred way of doing things.
* Correctly interprets and follows instructions.
* Possess the technical knowledge necessary to safely and efficiently perform job.
* Understands and learns from what others say.
* Machine/equipment operation
* Conveys ideas and facts orally using language the audience will best understand.
* Patient care skills including feeding, dressing, and bathing.
* Proficient in safe patient care techniques
* Has ability to cope with and rise to inevitable challenges, problems and set-backs.
* Manages own time, priorities, and resources to achieve goals.
* Helps create a work environment that embraces and appreciates diversity.
* Vital sign monitoring
* Conveys ideas and facts in writing using language the reader will best understand.

Southwell/Tift Regional Health System, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.