Patient Care Technician
1 week ago
UT Southwestern Medical Center is seeking a skilled Patient Care Technician to join our team. As a Patient Care Technician, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality patient care in a fast-paced hospital setting.
Responsibilities:- Provide patient care under the direction of nursing staff, ensuring that only tasks for which training and/or competency have been validated are performed.
- Collect, monitor, and document pertinent data relating to patient functioning and care, including intake and output, weight, temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure.
- Recognize and immediately report values outside normal parameters to the nurse.
- Perform patient rounding, reporting any changes in a patient's condition or behavior immediately to the nurse.
- Assess, identify, and monitor environmental, patient, and patient's family needs in a respectful, positive, and timely manner to achieve satisfaction.
- Perform basic hygiene care in accordance with Department of Nursing policies, procedures, and unit standards.
- Transfer and transport patients in accordance with policies and procedures, with specific consideration to age-specific and safety needs.
- Resolve patient concerns by initiating service recovery and immediately escalating patient, family, visitors, and staff concerns through the chain of command.
- Build meaning and sustainable relationships of trust through open and interactive communication with members of the healthcare team.
- Prepare, update, and disseminate reports at the change of shift and when changes are noted in the patient's condition.
- Support the administrative and clinical operations of assigned practice environment.
- Orient new staff and students to work areas.
- Collaborate with other nursing staff and hospital employees to create an environment that is conducive to the retention of qualified personnel.
- Utilize downtime to assist others and/or to provide additional supportive measures to patients and/or patients' families within the respective patient care environment.
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Must be able to read, write, and communicate in English.
- Familiarity with medical terminology.
- Working knowledge of basic computer software skills.
- One year acute care inpatient hospital experience in the role preferred, or a certified nursing assistant certificate and experience in the role, or completed the PCT residency at UT Southwestern Medical Center, or completed Nursing Fundamentals and skills course in nursing school.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, course accredited by the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross (ARC).
Work is performed primarily in a hospital setting where incumbent may be exposed to body fluids and infectious diseases.
UT Southwestern Medical Center is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status.
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