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Patient Care Technician II - Victory Lakes Surgery

League City, Texas, United States

Patient Care

UTMB Health

Requisition # 2502064

Minimum** **Qualifications:

High school or equivalent, one year of hospital experience AND completion of one of the followingtechnical programs:

- Completion of a recognized Nurse Assistant program OR

- Completion of Medical Corpsman program OR

- Completion of EMT program OR

- Is enrolled in a recognized School of Nursing and has completed the first semester of education

which contains clinical concepts and health assessment or the equivalent

- Has obtained and provided documentation of completion of 2 or more of the following:

- Emergency Dispatch

- POCT test site manager

- Cross-training to HUC duties

- Patient Care Assistant trainer

- Perform Unit Audits- 1 per month per unit/ department manager

- Cast placement

- Perform/ Assist with High-Level Disinfection

- Set up of delivery tables

- Set-up and assistance with minor operating procedures

- Set-up and assistance with area specific diagnostic procedures

- Language assistance

- Burn tub room duties which includes splint applications: mouth spreaders, upper and lower

extremities, positioning patients prone, application of pressure wrapping: coban ace wraps, surginet pressure garments, tubigrip/jobst garments, burn dressing preparation and application and assists in application of biobrane/transcyte

- INQN, IDERAD, PACS system resource/user

Licenses, Registrations, or Certifications:

• BLS

Job Summary/Description:

To provide technical assistance and supportive patient care to meet the needs of individual patients throughout assigned areas and serve as a leader/ mentor for the assigned unit(s).

Job Duties:

• Collects, reports, and documents data: Vital signs, height and weight, intake and output, pulse

oximetry, and collects specimens.

• Obtains blood samples by venipuncture.

• Acquires 12 lead EKG.

• Performs and reports POCT.

• Assists with patient activities and care as assigned by the charge nurse/designee as indicated by

the patient’s plan of care.

• Provides for patients’ personal hygiene: Bathes patients, performs oral suctioning and superficial

wound care, assists with chronic wound care, provides skincare for a patient with TED hose, SCD,

casts, skeletal pins, assists with elimination, cares for the incontinent patient, cares for the patient

with a urinary catheter, assists or gives cleansing enemas, sitz baths, non-sterile douches, and

provides ostomy care.

• Assists with feeding.

• Ambulates, positions, and turns patients and cares for the patient with altered mobility.

• Assists with patient safety related to age and condition

• Assists with patient restraints and patient-specific safety precautions

• Collects, reports, and documents data related to patient needs/emergencies and unusual patient

and family behavior

• Cares for the patient from a correctional environment.

• Maintains patient privacy and confidentiality of information and records at all times.

• Provides and maintains a clean, safe environment and performs and/or assists others to perform

proper aseptic technique, isolation procedures, and infection control measures.

• Documents as appropriate.

• Maintains patient care areas with appropriate supplies.

• Assists with patient requests for other hospital services.

Marginal or Periodic Functions:

• Video monitoring duties as assigned.

• Adheres to internal controls and reporting.

**Salary Range:** Actual salary commensurate with experience or range if discussed and approved by hiring authority.

Equal Employment Opportunity

UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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