Work Schedule:
- Part time, 24 hours per week, 12 hour shifts
- Night Shift
- For Information on Employee Benefits and SEIU Contract
Salary Range: $18.65 - $27.70 Other Compensation:
- Night Differential - $2.25
- Evening Differential - $1.65
- Weekend Differential - $1.50
Island Health has an exciting opportunity for a Patient Care Technician within the Acute Care/Medical Surgical team. Job Purpose: Assists in the care of hospital patients, under direction of a Registered Nurse and medical staff. Duties:
- Answers signal lights and bells to determine patients' needs.
- Bathes, dresses, and undresses patients.
- Serves and collects food trays and feeds patients requiring help.
- Transports patients to treatment units, using wheelchair, stretcher, bed, or may assist them to walk.
- Assist with ambulation.
- Drapes patients for examinations and treatments, and remains with patients, performing such duties as holding instruments and adjusting lights.
- Assist patients to bathroom, bedside commode, or with use of bedpan for toileting
- Tidy and clean patients' rooms.
- Washes and dresses bodies of deceased persons.
- Changes bed linens, runs errands, directs visitors, and answers telephones.
- Takes and records blood pressure, temperature, pulse and respiration rates, glucose levels, and food and liquid intake and output as directed. Reports unusual findings to nurse.
- Assists with turning and repositioning patients as needed.
- Reports to RN any abnormal vital signs, skin breakdown, decline in mentation or other observed changes,
- Enters data into computer system.
- Places telemetry electrodes accurately when ordered.
- Collects urine and stool specimens for lab, runs guiac testing
Skills/Qualifications:
- Knowledge of taking vital signs including temperature, blood pressure, pulses, respiration, and glucose levels.
- Ability to give compassionate care to patients and their families/visitors.
- Ability to manage time effectively and efficiently
Requirements:
- High School Diploma or G.E.D. preferred
- Current Washington State Nursing Assistant Certification
- Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support Certification
- 3 to 6 months previous CNA experience preferred
Work Environment: The work of this position is performed inside, exposing the employee to indoor environmental conditions, protected from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The employee may be exposed to dust, pollens, pollutants, fumes, communicable diseases, bodily fluids, toxic substances, ionizing radiation, medicinal preparations and other conditions common a health care environment. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Physical Demands: While performing the responsibilities of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand for extended periods of time; push, pull and reach; occasionally bend, sit, stoop and stretch. The employee will need full range of body motion, including handling and lifting of patients, should have the hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity needed to operate a keyboard, photocopier, telephone, calculator and medical equipment. Normal range of hearing and eyesight to record, prepare and communicate appropriate reports are required; specific vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to focus. Occasionally lift and carry up to 50 pounds. Reasonable accommodation can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position in relation to the physical demands detailed above. Salary Range: $18.65 - $27.70 per hour