Patient Care Technician

24 hours ago


Olney, Maryland, United States MedStar Health Full time
Job Summary

MedStar Health is seeking a skilled Patient Care Technician to join our team. As a Patient Care Technician, you will play a vital role in providing administrative support on the unit and direct bedside care to patients under the supervision of a licensed nurse.

Key Responsibilities
  • Clinical Support: Performs basic, routine, and specialized tasks in assigned departments, under the supervision of a registered nurse. Meets patients' needs, including providing baths, linen changes, bedpans, water pitchers, etc. Assists with ambulation, positioning, elimination, personal hygiene, activities of daily living, routine comfort measures. Transports patients and transfers patients between stretcher and bed and bed to chair. Provides nourishments as requested and authorized by orders, including distribution and collection of meal trays as needed.
  • Patient Care: Maintains the comfort, privacy, and dignity of each patient in the delivery of services to them. Observes, monitors, and reports changes in patients' condition, symptoms, reactions, or behavior as appropriate. Rounds on all assigned patients based on established standards. Documents vital signs promptly and accurately. Conducts purposeful rounding at a minimum of every two hours on assigned patients.
  • Technical Support: Supports the work of the department by performing clerical and secretarial tasks. Competent in computer systems used to admit, transfer, discharge, and chart. Compiles paperwork and inputs specified computer data related to admission, discharge, transfer, birth, or expiration of a patient.
  • Communication: Supports the work of the department by facilitating the transfer of information. Answers and directs all phone calls; takes messages as needed. Greets all persons coming to the nurses' station, answers inquiries, offers direction and assistance, takes and relays messages, runs errands.
  • Administrative Support: Assists in the timely collection and accurate reporting of patient data. Observes, monitors, and records vital signs and nursing care procedures in the appropriate area of the clinical record. Assures that documentation is accurate. Promptly answers call lights and telephones.
  • Financial Support: Supports the department by posting charges. Completes appropriate requisitions/computer entries for consults, diagnostic tests, and therapeutic services for patients and coordinates appointments with respective departments. Inputs data for patient charges. Maintains unit supplies and orders same using online requisition systems (e.g., Lawson) or other approved processes.
Requirements
  • Education: High School Diploma or GED or equivalent required. Completion of a Patient Care Technician course preferred.
  • Experience: Experience working as a patient care technician/nursing tech in a hospital setting preferred.
  • Licenses and Certifications: CNA - Certified Nursing Assistant licensure from the Maryland Board of Nursing required. CPR - Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscitation (includes BLS and NRP) for healthcare providers from either the American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross within 90 Days required. Additional unit/specialty certifications may vary by department or business unit.
  • Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Ability to read, write, speak, and comprehend English. Basic computer skills to perform data entry. Computerized clinical information systems. HIPAA policies on Confidentiality.


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