Patient Care Technician-Riverview-Med/Surg-Per Diem-Days
RIVERVIEW MEDICAL CENTER Borough of Red Bank, New Jersey
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* Requisition # 2025-160583
* Shift: Day
* Status: Per Diem
Overview
Our team members are the heart of what makes us better. At Hackensack Meridian Health, we help our patients live better, healthier lives - and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community. Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.
Responsibilities
* Provide patient care, based on physical, psychosocial, education, safety, and related criteria, appropriate to the age of the guests/patients served in assigned service.
* Provide for effective and safe guest/patient outcomes through practice, judgment, and critical actions.
* Ongoing communication with patients, nursing colleagues, and other members of the health care team regarding the patient's status and rendered care.
* Participate in Unit/Department Performance Improvement [PI] activities. Specific Job Functions may include but are not limited to:
o Welcoming patients and checking for proper identification bracelets.
o Preparing the patient for assessment/admission, physical examination, and procedures.
o Recognizing and responding to opportunities to enhance patient satisfaction.
o Demonstrating the knowledge and skill necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of patients on the unit.
o Obtaining clinical data, temperature, pulse, respirations, blood pressure, O2 saturation, and documenting findings in the patient record, notifying RN immediately of abnormal results.
* Draw intravenous or capillary blood from newborn through geriatric aged patients using proper aseptic collection techniques, ensuring appropriate labeling and processing of specimens to expedite throughput of patients.
* Perform venipuncture for laboratory tests.
* Demonstrate a reliable and dependable ability to follow through with designated responsibilities in the collecting, labeling, and transporting of specimens to the proper area at the appropriate time: always correctly labeling the type of specimen collected, including the patient's name and room number.
* Perform EKG for patients as directed.
* Apply bandages, slings, compression boots, and hypothermia blankets according to standard as directed by RN.
* Assist in the transport of patients to departments or units upon request.
* Assist with preparation as necessary, ensuring the patient is assisted with meals or fed as needed.
* Check inventory of assigned area and restock as directed.
* Provide direct hygiene and comfort care to patients including bathing, toileting, oral hygiene, incontinent care, and bed making.
* Assist the patients with dressing/undressing and placing patient belongings in the appropriate bag labeled with a completed property checklist. Monitor the return of clothing to the family of the patient.
* Perform and document glucose finger sticks and collect other specimens as directed.
* Provide post mortem care.
* Obtain and document patient weights and observe and document the patient's intake and output.
* Adhere to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.
Qualifications
* High School diploma, general equivalency diploma (GED), and/or GED equivalent programs.
* Completion of one of the following:
o Certified Nursing Assistant, Medical Assistant, or Patient Care Technician program or
o Fundamentals of Nursing program from an accredited school of nursing or
o HMH PCT Apprenticeship Program or
o Equivalent medical background experience, such as EMT, Home Health Aide, CMA, MA, PCT, Nursing Assistant.
* Note: Candidates that have not completed one of the programs but meet the other requirements will be considered for selection into the HMH PCT Apprentice Program.
If selected, the candidate will be hired into the role of PCT Apprentice. Upon successful completion of the HMH PCT Apprenticeship Program, the candidate will be transferred to the Patient Care Technician role.
* AHA Basic Health Care Life Support HCP Certification (must be obtained during the first 60 days of employment).
If you feel that the above description speaks directly to your strengths and capabilities, then please apply today!
HACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH (HMH) IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, breastfeeding, genetic information, refusal to submit to a genetic test or make available to an employer the results of a genetic test, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, national origin, nationality, ancestry, disability, marital status, liability for military service, or status as a protected veteran.
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